Author Archives: L.
How reading, DVDs and even videogames can become an opportunity for language stimulation
The importance of reading to rchildren cannot be overestimated. Reading is critical for language development, but also for children’s personal development, for acquiring the ability to understand oneself and the world and to elaborate experiences. It goes without saying that for bilingual children reading is also essential to stimulate language. However the link between reading [...]
Books, CD and DVD for bilingual children discounted on Amazon
There are few good news for you, and I’m very happy to share them.
Bilingual For Fun just opened its Amazon Store: Bilingual For Fun Bookstore. There you can find books, CD and DVD for children, plus of course books on bilingualism for parents. Everything you’ll see there has been selected by me, not by a random search [...]
Animal sounds in different languages
Children love animals and reproducing animals’ sounds, and this as far as I know is true in all cultures and countries. However, funny enough, animal sounds do change from country to country, or to be pedantic, the way people reproduce animal sounds change.
This is no minor thing, in bilingual families you’ll see daddy saying that [...]
My baby is bilingual, how can I help him learn English too?
I’ll give a straight answer to this question (which I’m hearing quite often now): Don’t.
English is clearly the one language we all need to speak now, so all to often parents of bilingual children are worried that their child should learn English early on too, but obviously don’t know how to go about it. [...]
Children who can speak two languages are better at learning a third language
This interesting article based on research from Nothwestern University shows how bilingual children are better at learning a new foreign language than monolingual children. The implications are ery relevant for all multilingual and international families, who don’t need to worry about their kids learning English too early on (when English is not part ofb the [...]
Do Language Classes deliver Bilingual Children?
We have been talking about kindergarten schooling options for bilingual children, and we’ll soon talk about primary schools too, however let’s spend few word also on language classes.
For parents that would like their children to grow bilingual, language classes are often considered an alternative to international/bilingual schooling, a less intense but a far less expensive [...]
Learning a second language is good childhood mind medicine, studies find
An interesting article on Bilingual Children from the Cornell language Acquisition Lab.
The article confirms that bilingualism has no negative impact on children, on the contrary it stimulates them positevely, and it also gives some very useful practical tips to parents, which I copy below (however I still encourage you to read the whole article):
Tips to [...]
Bilingual children, grandparents and extended family