{"id":7351,"date":"2025-12-17T15:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicolemaina.com\/is-my-child-too-old-to-become-bilingual\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:24:39","slug":"is-my-child-too-old-to-become-bilingual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicolemaina.com\/en\/is-my-child-too-old-to-become-bilingual\/","title":{"rendered":"Is my child too old to become bilingual?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We all know it\u2019s ideal to start from birth, or even sooner.<br>But real life often looks different. A thousand things get in the way, and we can\u2019t always do things at the \u201cright\u201d time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now your child is already in preschool, or maybe even in elementary school, and they don\u2019t speak your language the way you had hoped. Is it too late? No.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It\u2019s never too late<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Objectively, it is never too late to learn a language. Even adults can reach very high levels of proficiency in a new language. Does that mean they\u2019ll master both languages 100%, without an accent? Of course not (and by the way, \u201cperfect bilingualism\u201d   <a> <\/a>is extremely rare).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, children can learn additional languages quite easily, even after early childhood. 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