Many people conduct life in more than just their mother tongue, even if they do not make a conscious effort to immerse themselves in different languages.
“Many families are from multiple cultures and live in one that is not their own, potentially exposing children to different languages at the same time and from a very young age,” says Scarlett Mattoli, a psychologist at Hong Kong mental health consultancy Psynamo.
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