From trying to reach more bilingualism parents in Wandsworth to running both workshop A and B in a fortnight back in King’s Cross, September has been an extremely busy month for Babylingualism, still new and fresh in its first year. The goal is to help as many parents as possible on their bilingual journey with…
There are many benefits to raising a child to become bilingual, including cognitive advantages, linguistics advantages and also improved social skills. Not only this, but bilingual children are better at learning new words, utilising information in new ways, listening and connecting with others. Children aren’t the only age group who reap the rewards of being…
‘You haven’t asked me what ‘Jurassic Journey’ is in Chinese. I still remember it!’ After our little trip to Birdland during the half term holidays in charming Cotsworld, the whole family left amazed at the array of aves that we saw and learnt. It was another one of those trips (opportunities!) that I seized to…
Today we completed our latest bilingualism workshop, which went very smoothly thanks to the kind help of our helper Carol, who kept the energetic children entertained, and my husband Andrew who provided all the technical support! Past participants and today’s parents have requested more focus on strategies and for more information targeted at their children’s…
As parents we are busy people, and we don’t always have time to take our children to bilingual schools and activities – we need to expose our children to the home minority language as often as we can. A good way of doing this is to turn daily activities into fun opportunities to promote the home…
This isn’t the first time I’ve been asked this question and it won’t be the last. I receive emails such as these frequently. I decided to share my reply today as I hope by doing so, it can ease many parent’s worries. Life as a parent is full of worries but if you find yourself…
I’m very proud of raising a trilingual family, but it wasn’t easy. My son didn’t always speak three languages. Just the two really. My husband didn’t feel that his Mandarin ‘was good enough’ for our child and since we both communicated in English, the language that glued our relationship, it was so much easier to…