Online Class Notes (Li)

Vocabulary

monolingual – you speak 1 language fluently

bilingual – you speak 2 languages fluently

trilingual – you speak 3 languages fluently

multilingual – you speak 3 or 4

dialect – ex. Shanghainese/Cantonese etc.

Our school wasn’t closen

Our school wasn’t shut.

Transfer a language

Translate a language

Changing quickly/rapidly 

For some reasons, a person arrive from his hometown to another country. He or she will learn two different languages from each country.

A compound bilingual may learn two different language at the same time/simultaneously when they move to another country.

A coordinate bilingual speak one language at official place and speak another language to their friends or parents in an unofficial place.

A coordinate bilingual speaks one language in school and speaks another language to their friends or parents at home.

This person use one of the language for his their main language and use another language for their second language.

A subordinate bilingual learns the second language via referring to their mother tongue.

They think the child would spend too much energy and they would get tired quickly.