This week in class we focused on language development in children; and to be honest, I've always been interested in learning about this process. I always found it fascinating how children have such an intuitive manner of learning these immensely complicated languages. I'm very fascinated by the sponge-like process where a child can just learn a language simply from being around these audible sounds. If you look at a child learning to speak, within a matter of months you can see their language skills improve dramatically, where as if I were to try to learn an entirely new language, it would be a much longer process. You would think that an adult with a prior understanding of language and communication would be able to learn a new language far more intuitively than an infant with no knowledge of anything what-so-ever but for example, suppose today I decided I wanted to learn French, and along side me there was a one year old who was just learning how to speak and being taught French, I can almost guarantee that the child would be speaking fluent French three years from now, but I would still be at an intermediate level at best. But what I am more curious about is if there is a risk of delay or any kind of complications that may come with an infant who is being taught to speak bilingually? For example: when my brother was two years old, he suffered a substantial delay in speech. The doctor told my mother that it was most likely due to the fact that he was learning to speak Spanish and English in a bilingual household, and told her to stop immediately and stick to English. Through my own personal research, I found this diagnosis from the doctor to have no factual evidence contributing to the theory. If anything I have only found documents indicating many benefits to raising your children in a bilingual household and that a delay is common.