Hand-me-down clothes might not be the worst part of having an older sibling, according to a recent study of about 1,200 bilingual children in Frontiers in Psychology. They might just make you worse at learning a second language.
Sifting through the data amassed by the Zweitspache (Second Language) project, Swiss researchers examined the survey responses of immigrant parents on their children’s language skills. They then attempted to determine what influence the presence of siblings might have on the children’s ability to understand and use rudimentary German phrases; German being the officially recognized language of the Swiss canton, Basel, where the study took place.
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