
When Does Language Learning Really Start?
Our native language is sometimes called our “mother tongue”. This makes sense; for most of us, the first person we bond with is our mother, and the language she speaks to us is usually what ends up being our native language – or, in the case of multilingual people, one of them. As a mother-to-be, myself, I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea. I live in a country where my native language isn’t the one spoken by most people, so it will be almost completely up to me to teac