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Bilingualism can further be classified based on whether two languages are learned at the same or different environments. We divide them into Compound and Coordinate bilingualism.
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Child of bilingual parent
Compound bilingualism refers to learning two languages in the same context.
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In this case
the child keeps languages separated in his mind and usually doesn’t switch between them while speaking in early years.
It depends on whether the time of acquiring a second language overlaps with the first one.
When a child is learning two languages at the same.
before the age of 3 and before fully acquiring the first language.
This way the languages overlap and create kind of a mixture that is later gonna be separated into two languages.
You can acquire as many languages as you wish.
The first language is always going to be used for translating the second language.
It depends on the speaker’s level of the languages skills.
When it comes to adult learners, this can happen when a person learns a third language, for example when moving to another country and starts losing his second language. The mother tongue in this case stays as it is.
Typical example is a child living with his family in a foreign country. This child will learn one language at home while speaking another language at school.
The second language will not erase anything from the first language and adds to the language skills. That's why is ‘additive bilingualism