Bilingualism

My experience (and far more significantly my bilingual schoolteacher wife's experience) is that kids - and they're nearly all Hispanic kids - that are bilingual have only advantages. Bilinguality from an early age doesn't seem to hinder their English at all. I get so jealous of both wife and of several of my Hispanic friends that I can scarcely stand it. They can hop back and forth seamlessly between the languages. I read Spanish just fine, but just cannot keep up in a conversation, particularly in TexMex as opposed to my wife's Costa Rican Spanish.And I'm betting that being bilingual from toddlerhood actually helps brain development.

My daughter came back to New Orleans from London after her junior year in college there and asked some folks in a bank, "Are y'all in queue?"That's the worst that can happen.