How the bilingual mind handles words from two languages [Season 2, Episode 9]

Kletsheads [English edition] by Sharon Unsworth

Jun 10, 202241:08Kids & family

Transcript Bilingual children sometimes say things that their monolingual peers would never say. This is the same for adults, too. They don’t always know certain words in each of their two (or more) languages. And...

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