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[quote=Anonymous]If a child was truly starting from zero, I would not try to teach reading in two languages that share characters concurrently. If the child already knows how to read one language, like yours, I don't see a problem with introducing the other. Or, if the two languages have unmistakably different alphabets, then I think you could teach from zero concurrently. Anecdotally, I learned how to read in Russian at age 4, and had no problem learning to read English at age 5-6, even though the two alphabets share some overlapping characters, some of which make different sounds. But I had a firm grasp on the Russian before I started learning English. My children had the other scenario, learning different alphabets concurrently, English and Hebrew, and then learning to read both at the same time. That worked fine too. I wouldn't try to teach a child the Russian and English alphabets at the same time though. I'd sequence it.[/quote]
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