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[quote=Anonymous]We read to our son pretty much since the day he was born. We are a bilingual household, and none of these languages is English. My Mom stayed with us for six months when he was one, and she has a thing for reading, so she taught him to recognize all the Cyrillic letters. Looking at her, my DH got motivated to teach him all the Arabic ones. He's two now and he can sound and identify pretty much all of Cyrillic and Arabic letters. We are not really doing anything formal about "teach to read" other than just reading to him a lot and asking him to name letters every now and again (for instance, in his books the first letter in a chapter will be big, so I'll ask, "what is this" and he'll respond). That's basically it. God only knows what will become of this experiment later and how English will enter the equation, but I figured we'd do what we can while we can. I don't really care when and how he begins to read as long as he comes out with a love of reading. Right now he has the love of books as an object to maul.[/quote]
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