But many scholars observe that studying several languages too early only confuses children, and the end result may be that they don't learn even their mother tongue properly. Thus such an approach may be counterproductive.
對此，就有不少學者指出，過早的多種語言學習，只會讓小孩錯亂，最後可能連母語都學不好，因此不應「揠苗助長」。