Children, babies and language

Children and babies learn a language differently than adults.

When not to start to teach Children languages The truth is all times and ages are good to start a child with a language. However, the question is do you want them to speak like a native or like a foreigner. I live in Krakow, and many parents say they will start their children young [...]

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Citizenship of a baby born in a foreign country What is the citizenship status of a baby born abroad to only one American – US citizen (and generally the rule for citizen’s of other counties)? Cutting to the chase and with out all the legalese, a baby born in a foreign country where one parent [...]

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Best way for a baby to learn a language In the 1990s many ambitious parents would play language tapes to their children. However, the result after a decade of such attempts to transform their babies into polyglots and baby Einstein’s unfortunately did not prove successful. Why? Babies and small children need concrete real people to [...]

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Growing up and going to school the 1970s I grew up in the 70s in the USA. The education system was not as good as it is today. Or was it? I think I did not read my first book, nor did I do any homework until I was 14. However, at 14 I went to a [...]

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Gesture reflects or body language language development: Evidence from bilingual children Using hand gestures to help you in expressing yourself was seen as a sign of weak verbal or language development.  A substitution for verbal fluency.  However, the work on Elena Nicoladis Department of Psychology University of Alberta indicates the contrary. Children who used more hand gestures [...]

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Bilingual babies learn in a different way What is the difference in learning method? Bilingual babies focus on learning as many words as possible, monolingual babies focus on the small details of the words they learn. Bilingual babies develop a strategy that they will focus their cognitive energies on associating words with with concrete objects. [...]

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Playing with blocks helps children build language abilities If you liked playing with blocks when you were a child, you are in luck, chances are your linguistic ability was improved. A University of Washington, Seattle study has shown that language skill in children who played with blocks, were 15% higher than those who did not. This [...]

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Phonetic ability connected to a child’s first language If you spoke Polish as a child your phonetic language ability is amazing, when it comes to pronouncing other languages because of the richness of the Polish language.  However, you might have trouble with ‘A’ or ‘O’ or even more the sound “th” because it is not [...]

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Where do babies get words Babies learn from their parents not from TV Babies learn from their parents not from TV.  In fact some accelerated DVD language learning for slows babies progress.  DVDs are good for children and great for adults but for babies, they respond really only to real live humans, in other words, [...]

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Bilingual education in America The USA has given more funding and starting new programs in bilingual education in the public schools.  The objective is to make the USA more competitive in the global market.  These programs are just not traditional languages classes in a foreign language, but these are true bilingual education programs in public [...]

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