In response to Pamela's post- As the mother of 5 bilingual children (the youngest isn't talking yet but I have no doubts), I have found that it is not a problem to accomplish this. Years ago I was told that as long as one person speaks one language, (for example in our case I always spoke English and my husband always Hebrew) the child seems to identify what each person says in a structured way, understanding that these sounds go together and the others one's go over there, and don't confuse the two languages. I have found this to be true. With my 4 year old, when she began to speak, she could (and still does) easily identify a native Hebrew speaker trying to speak to her in English, and will speak only Hebrew to him/her. When a native English speaker speaks to her in Hebrew, she answers in English- it's amazing. She also thinks that she needs to translate for me into English, things that her dad says to her in Hebrew and visa versa. I wish that they had been exposed to even more languages, they seem like sponges that could absorb and absorb- don't forget those who grew up in Europe years ago- many people spoke Yiddish at home, and several languages in school, like Russian and Polish, Hungarian and and Rumanian, or other combinations. Good luck! Jennie in Israel *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html