Is it possible for a person to know two or more languages equally? Does having a different parent's language make a person bilingual?

Gökçe Yükselen Abdurrazak Peler @Goekce_Peler

11 November 2014 0 6K Report

In other words do true bilinguals really exist or is always one of the languages stronger than the other?

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