>> Interesting..I have a friend who wrote an academic paper on Code Switching - i.e. the
>> enhanced ability to hold a conversation in different languages without an apparent effort. Guess accents
>> might work in the same way.
My cousin's son does this. His father usually speaks to him in German and his mother in English. They have each spoken to him in their own language since he was born, even though my cousin works as a German/English translator and his German father has very good English.
Good idea that has endowed the son with complete fluency in both languages which will be very valuable to him I suspect.
Doesn't stop him playing computer games at the same time either.
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