I think it's all about passion for languages. I have bilingual children and my first was having difficulties with my native language compared to the second one. It's all individual...So the answer is > it depends in my opinion I think there is no advantage over the children from monolingual. Children from bilingual families take 2 different languages as one. So in some sense there are still monolingual... here is some paper: > Because a key expectation parents have is for their child to perform > well in school, it is important for parents to know that bilingual > children and monolingual children develop their learning abilities at > different speeds. Children learning two languages learn each language > more slowly than monolingual children learn their native languages. It > is easy to understand why -- children have a limited amount of time > with which to dedicate to listening and reading language; if a child > is bilingual, he will split that time between the two languages, which > slows his learning speed. This often affects the academic performance > and communication skills of bilingual children, which can cause stress > in the family. In a sense, the average school is set up to go at a > monolingual speed, which might outpace bilingual children. http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/child-development-bilingual-vs-monolingual-household-7371.html > Bilingual 12-year-olds perform worse at school than their monolingual > peers, a researcher at Sweden's Örebro University has found. http://www.thelocal.se/20110323/32766