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And, in situations where students have a Mom and Dad that speak different languages, suggesting further that one parent address the child in one language, and the other parent in another language.

One language per parent is quite common in bi-language families in Sweden today. Also schools and day care offers instruction in a wide range of "home"-languages for children who has an extra language from their home.

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by A swedish kind of death on Thu Apr 12th, 2012 at 08:35:43 AM EST
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in France. We've done away with all languages except for the official one (defined as such in the Constitution).

Ordinary linguistics doesn't apply in France; nor does common sense, at least in that respect.

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by eurogreen on Thu Apr 12th, 2012 at 09:00:31 AM EST
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