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When your bilingual child seems like different people

My kid is becoming bilingual and I watch him switch between languages like switching between worlds and I don't know which version of him is real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Observing linguistic multiplicity in another challenges fundamental assumptions about unified selfhood and authentic identity.

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“Where Are You with Language learning and cognitive effects?”

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