• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      my wife, who has considerable practical and theoretical expertise in the area, found children learn sign languages earlier than spoken languages.

      which languages are better for kids? the languages their family and culture use - language is our primary tool for communication and that’s the goal. good communication.

    • Hoimo@ani.social
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      20 days ago

      Children don’t care, you can feed them bits and pieces of every language and they’ll construct a new language out of it. Actually, the idea of a defined language is a very adult idea, for when you can’t so easily learn new things and you decide that whatever you know now is the true language and what other people speak is bastardized or dialect or a different language altogether.