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RE: Bilingual Children - Development
One of my cousins grew up in a Thai speaking family, had Burmese people as nannies and been studying in an international school. She speaks perfect 3 languages... No harm learing 3 languages here. She's a normal little girl :)
No doubt she is normal, she must be very smart, too! What happens with children like that, according to linguists, is in their early years their vocabulary range in each particular language is smaller than monolingual children's in that particular language. However, if you count the words of the bilinguals (or trilinguals ;)) in all languages they speak it equals the monolinguals' vocab range! It can, of course, be compensated for when they are a bit older.