It tells of how children get attuned to different sounds from different languages early in the development stage, and how people never manage to close that gap as they grow up. The idea is to expose kids to different languages as early as possible, so that they get accustomed to the different sounds. It explains why my wife who learned only Tamil, cannot get herself to say "zha" as in "mazha" or "pazham" and why I should start exposing my daughter to these sounds now itself, or risk losing it. The one good thing that learning Malayalam has done is that it has made it easy for us to get used to almost any sound. I plan to teach my daughter Malayalam, even if she studies in Chennai (she is only 2 now).
Sometime back, I also came across an article on a study that said that people who learned more than one language did better in Maths and Science.
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