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For many international families living in Japan, raising a bilingual child creates anxiety. Uncertainty around methods, resources, progress or milestones concerns many parents whose children are learning a new language outside of the home, living in a bilingual household or may even be struggling with losing their native language as they learn a second one. We spoke with Marsha Rosenberg, a preeminent speech language pathologist who has worked in Tokyo for 40 years, at the American School in Japan and now her own practice, about language learning and bilingualism in hopes of a step-by-step,...

Studies have shown that children lose their ability to become fully fluent in a second language - grammatically, conversationally correct with little accent - by age 10. And any adult who's tried to learn another language can tell you that doing so gets tougher as the years go on. So the earlier you can start to learn, the better! The benefits of bilingualism (or multilingualism!) are well-known by this point: more empathy, increased learning ability, better job prospects. Every day at CareFinder we see firsthand the value of exposing young children to new languages and cultures and want to...