For parents who want their children to become intelligent and successful, accepting the common dogma might not be the best idea. Academic preschools will gladly take your money, but most leading experts do not feel that early reading or math confers any long-term educational advantage.
Languages, on the other hand, are different. While it's not a popular or reaffirming observation, a child who isn't already multilingual by the first grade, probably never will be...particularly in the American setting.
Trilingual by Six explores this still controversial reality and meticulously develops a very novel plan of action for parents who want to do something about it. In the modern, increasingly global age, virtually all speaking children can grow up multilingual, and their future careers may very well depend on it. All they need is an astute parent who has managed to connect a few simple dots, who has discovered the overlooked but absolutely abundant resources right in the neighborhood.
About the Author: A victim of his own restive curiosity, Dr. Lennis Dippel has always refused to fully appreciate the finer things in life and avoided the limitations of a normal expert.
With a degree in general studies from Texas Tech University, he attended Southwestern Medical School. Intending to return to his small-town roots, he completed a residency in family medicine; but, an ill-fated romantic interest detoured him through Europe, where he made an equally doomed attempt to learn German. He eventually married a native Spanish speaker who had no better luck at teaching him her language.
Resolved to give his children the opportunities he missed, Dr. Dippel exposed them to multiple languages from the very start, while he researched the world's database on childhood language acquisition. Based on this investigation, and findings from his highly successful home laboratory, he concludes that, without a doubt, there is an easier way to become multilingual.
