The benefits of being exposed to multiple languages from a young age have been widely discussed and researched, highlighting the cognitive benefits of being exposed to more than one language. It is said that multilingualism increases the brain’s flexibility. Bilingual people are better at planning and executing tasks and retaining and retrieving information as a result of exercising their brain, to switch between two or more languages, recall words and apply different grammatical rules.
Children have an innate ability to acquire a language by interacting with their family and wider community. Language acquisition typically follows a process, starting with babbling, which evolves into single words, followed by two-words combined and then developing in to sentences.