What do you do when there is no word to express what you want to say? And when on top of that you are not quite four years old? My daughter takes advantage of her dual vocabulary and borrows from the other language when she doesn’t know a word. She shows off her new long […]
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Today I came across this article on a UK website: Languages – Gift of bilingualism is too often ‘squandered’ Some quotes: [Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, of the University of Melbourne] who advised the Australian government on its languages policy, said it was of “critical importance” that education systems across the world fostered a “multilingual mentality”, […]
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As a postscriptum to my post of almost a year ago (Jan. 4, 2010), here is another article on newborn babies crying differently according to their mother tongue – or at least the language they heard while in their mother’s womb: BBC article This article on the BBC wesite contains a sound sample where the […]
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Here we are. The baby is there, as you no doubt know, and she is being talked to. With all the good advice from the books (see biblio section) in mind, my first word to her was in German. (No, I won’t tell what it was, that’s just between the two of us.) I also […]
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