What is the best age to begin study of the immersion language?
Essentially, the monolingual child can begin a second language at any time, although research indicates that the optimal period for rapid second-language acquisition is between the ages of 3 and 7. However, in the case of a truly bilingual family (father’s native language is A, mother’s is B), the child should learn to understand and speak both languages from birth and each parent should use his/her “authentic” language with the child.
