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What we often see with very young children is that when they use words in the other language... 

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this is because they do not know the words in the target language. So when they are in school and they have to use a word that has to do with home... 

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then they will probably do that in the home language.  And it’s also the other way around. So, what you often hear is that children... 

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who come home from school and start talking about school in their home language, 

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that they will occasionally use Dutch words, that they will occasionally use Dutch words, because they learned all those things in Dutch.  

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That’what I also see at home with my daughter. And that’s just normal...  

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Bilinguals sometimes also sound a bit different than monolinguals. I also hear that at home with my own children.... 

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And yes, that is also the case with bilingual adults. I do not sound the same in English anymore as I did fifteen years ago... 

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when I wasn’t speaking two languages all day long.