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Publications
All About Kids
Parlez-Vous Français? The Sooner, the Better! by Kimberly Tenai, August 01, 2007
ACF NewSource
Learning Language - Neuroscientists have discovered why children excel at learning languages, July 29, 2003
Science Daily
New Thoughts of Language Acquisition: Toddlers as Data Miners by Indiana University, February 4, 2008
Internationally Adopted Children Shed Light on How Babies Learn Language by the Association for Psychological Science, January 19, 2007
USA Today
More children learn more than one language by Beth Walton, January 10, 2007
APS Observer
Kids Are the Champs at Learning Language by Amy Pollick, September 2006
Forbes
Why Kids Learn Languages Easily by Noam Chomsky, October 24, 2005
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Cognitive Benefits of Learning Language by Martha Abbott, Therese Sullivan Caccavale and Ken Stewart, Fall 2007
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Over 250 million people in the world speak Spanish as their first language. If we include the number of people who are fluent in Spanish as a second language, the total number of Spanish speakers in the world is well over 400 million people. Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.