上海《新闻晚报》2008-1-6日报道，太早学习多种语言 上海许多幼儿患上“失语症”：
医生深究了月月的家庭语言环境，这才发现，原来竟然是他过早处于多种语言的混乱环境，造成语言系统失衡，难以用一种单纯的语言来表达，因此不开口说话。“过早接触外语，容易让孩子患上失语症或自闭症。”
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上海市儿童保健所沃乐柳副教授说：“幼儿最好是在3岁以后再开始学习外语。过早学习有时反而会影响幼儿以后学外语的正确发音。何况学好母语是最关键的，如果在比较熟练地掌握了母语之后，再开始学习外语则较为适当。”
“ 人们不禁要问”，这都是什么专家啊？又是什么记者啊？他们怎么成为专家的，怎么成为记者的？都什么素质啊？都从哪里冒出来的？
照这逻辑，卢森堡的孩子应该都失语才对。地球上还有很多双语地区的孩子都可能患上失语症？
事实上，上海话与普通话之间的不同已经超出母语与方言的区别。甚至可能比美式英语与英式英语之间的差别还要大（美式英语与英式英语的区别大抵上相当于北京话与天津话的区别）。如此看来，在上海很多孩子从小就暴露在“两种语言”构成的环境中。因此根据专家建议，所有即将生孩子的家长都应该抓紧时间搬出上海地区。防火防盗放XXTV之余，还要防“失语”！
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晕，这报导不会是真的吧。怎么可能啊，也许是例外。个人感觉还是早点接触多种语言好，不用像我们现在还苦苦的学英语
室友是上海人，一起研究了一下，我们目前使用的所谓Mandarin根据的是白话文语法结构，但是吴语、粤语的语言中还保留了相当多的文言文用法。因此差异几乎是语系级别的。
个人认为还是应该先学一种语言，用这种语言学会逻辑的表述方式。逻辑的表述方式无论在哪种语系中都是有的，所以学会了这个之后再学别的语言就很便利了。比如学编程总是会先学Pascal或者LISP，尽管这两种语言都不怎么用。但是学会了他们的语法再学Java或者Python基本就没什么困难了。
一个是汉藏语系和一个是印欧语系…
出名要趁早。没什么不对
这是欲加之罪，何患无辞。
是个学习成绩不好的学生，就能推到恋爱上么，就是这么回事。
另外，笑来老师，知道罗永浩老师的邮箱么？我上次在他blog上留言，但是他没有回复我……我还是发邮件好了。谢谢^_^||
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/09/2359406.htm
Early bilingualism may increase stutter risk
Posted Tue Sep 9, 2008 11:16am AEST
Children who are bilingual before the age of five are more likely to stutter than non-bilingual counterparts and also find it harder to shed this impediment, according to a British study published on Tuesday.
The research was conducted among 317 London children who were referred to a speech therapist when they were aged between eight and 10.
One in five of the stutterers were bilingual, speaking English at school and a second language at home.
Boys outnumbered girls by a ratio of four to one.
The study, headed by psychologist Peter Howell of University College London, appears in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, published by the British Medical Association (BMA).
It found that stuttering, bilingual children usually stutter in both languages, rather than just one.
By concentrating on the minority language up to the age of five, and then acquiring English, the risk of stuttering is reduced and overcoming the problem is easier, the study proposes.
Starting English somewhat later, and learning it at the same time as the minority language, does not affect educational success, according to tests on children at the age of seven and 11, it said.
- AFP