Tag Archives: Playgroup

Things I’ve done…

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I owe you an explanation, I know… What’s up with me? Lot’s actually… Now as most of you know, to be true to my mission to bilingualism I run two blogs, Bilingual for Fun, in EN, and Bilingue per Gioco, in Italian. Well I realised I wasn’t getting what I wanted out of either and decided [...]
Posted on January 22, 2010

English Speaking Playgroups Starting in S. Saba, Rome

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Playgroups are kicking off in Rome, at  S.Saba, thursdays at 17.30. Playgroups motivate children to speak the minority language, which is normally the language spoken just by mom or dad and becomes instead the language spoken by children too as well as a necessary means to communicate in an environment where no other language is spoken. However [...]
Posted on November 12, 2009

More information about Playgroups. What, When, Where and most of all Who

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I recently received few emails expressing interest in creating Playgroups in one place or another, I would like to answer these questions and make some clarity about: Playgroups in general, any language English Playgroups Where can you find a Playgroup How to start a new Playgroup
Posted on July 18, 2009

Summer vacation options for Italian-English bilingual children

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 An italian mom who is raising her child bilingual in English, although none in the family is an English native speaker, asked some tips about how to find Enlish speaking opportunities for the summer vacation. Of course a trip is always a good idea, although the trip is expensive and is always done with family, [...]
Posted on May 30, 2009

Learning a second language is good childhood mind medicine, studies find

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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 [...]
Posted on May 19, 2009

The Importance of a Social Context (think Playgroup) for Bilingual Children

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Do parents or society shape children? A lot has been said on this, but I think most people would agree that it is a bit (or a lot) of both. Children take input from many sources and recognize the authority of different people (parents, teachers, older children, uncle, etc…), this way they build their own [...]
Posted on April 29, 2009

English, French, German (etc.) Playgroups for Bilingual Children in Italy

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Bilingual For Fun was born in Italy, and here it is organizing Playgroups, i.e. opportunities for adults and children to meet and play in English, German, French, Spanish, name it! Basically in any language other than Italian.
Posted on April 26, 2009

Playgroups help bilingual children speak English, or French, or German…

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Parents who want their children to learn a language early on normally speak the language with them, but often realise that the child doesn’t want to speak the language. In fact hearing a language only from one or two persons is not enough, babies are thus missing the opportunity to interact with more people in that language, [...]
Posted on April 25, 2009