To all the bilingual kiddies out there, if your older sister or brother calls you estúpido one more time then back yourself up by letting them know you’re bilingual and that makes you special…in a good way. Word has it that kids who learn two idiomas become more proficient learning inglés as they grow older. Q-qué? Could you repeat that again?

“Speaking two languages opens up a whole new world to children,” says Laurie Weaver, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Bilingual and Multicultural Studies at University of Houston-Clear Lake. “Not only will they be better prepared to understand others, they will also understand themselves and their own language better.”

If that’s true, bilingual haters need to back off with some of the backlash Spanish speakers are receiving for not embracing English easily. [Vivirlatino]

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