10: Learning languages linguistically
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The Prestige of Learning a Second Language
There's also a kind of a prestige thing about learning certain languages as certain communities. And so, you know, a lot of English dominant or English monolingual parents might see a lot of prestige in sending their child to a bilingual English French school. But then we have these children who come in who are amazing bilinguals in say, Vietnam and Australia. Even though there are many cognitive benefits that people discuss in relation to multilingualism, there's not the social prestige.
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