Children in the polyglot Washington, DC, region often surprise their parents with language feats learned in day care. The large number of foreign-born care providers in the area enables many parents to kick-start their children's knowledge of a second or even a third language from among a growing babel that includes Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashto, Hindi and Amharic, in addition to French and Spanish. Read more about these early second language learners at washingtonpost.com.
Posted by Louise Ash on 26 June 2007 in Language Learners