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Multilingual and bilingual children - benefits and challenges
If you are bilingual, you use two languages. If you are multilingual, you use more than two.Raising multilingual or bilingual children has many benefits. For example, it can create strong family and cultural bonds. Raising multilingual or bilingual children has challenges. For example, it can take a lot of time and effort.
- Organisation:
- Raising Children Network
- Topic:
- Parenting, Children's health
- Target audience:
- Parents or carers
- Service area:
- National
- Published:
- September 2021
- Last reviewed:
- February 2024
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