25/09/2026
Somewhere between the Hindi spoken at home and the English learned at school, most children here pick up Bengali without anyone really teaching it to them, just from growing up in this city.
You might think this is a lot to ask of a young brain. Turns out it's the opposite. Before age 6, a child's brain is unusually good at holding multiple languages at once โ it doesn't get confused between them, it builds separate, flexible pathways for each.
So the children switching between languages, they're not managing complexity. They're doing something their brains are, quite literally, built to do at this age.
At KITA, that's the world we try to keep open for them โ so that when Spanish enters the mix, it doesn't arrive as one more thing to learn, but as its own world of songs, stories and ways of seeing โ one a child gets to belong to, the way they already belong to the languages around them.