Noah CooperOne of the main reasons for starting this blog was to force myself to start to reading other people’s blogs and to share ideas and experiences. One of the first things I cam across was a number of people talking about how they had met other...
Thomas, my son, is only 19 months old and so is obviously too young to be learning his alphabet. This hasn’t stopped him from getting a new favourite book; Thomas’ ABC. Thomas, the tank engine, is the first book to be chosen whenever I...
Part of the thing about raising a kid to be bilingual is that it often involves at least one of the parents living in a different country. So not only are there the normal problems (and opportunities?) associated with raising a family, but there...
Image: Amazon.co.uk On the OUP site for this book it says that it is appropriate for kids from the ages of 2-5. Thomas is still only 18 months old, and this probably explains why he likes the book, but doesn’t love it yet. It is written by...
Image: Amazon.co.uk This book has been knocking around Thomas’ room for quite a while now without actually being read. It is a pity, because as soon as it was opened it became a hit. It is written by An Vrombaut and published by Oxford...
Image: Amazon.co.uk I don’t know where we got this book from. I have a feeling my brother bought it on one of his forays into charity bookshops. Wherever it came from though, from the age of about 2-9 months, this was Thomas’ favourite...
Image: jscreationzs / freedigitalphotos.net Thomas and I were talking on Skype to my parents back in the UK the other day when they mentioned something that I had noticed in passing before. Although he doesn’t have many words and he babbles...
As any good second language learner knows, sometimes you either don’t know or can’t find the word you need in order to communicate what you want. In this case you have to find an alternative way of getting your message across. Before T...
In the world of second language learning there is quite a debate at the moment about the use of drills for language learning. For the uninitiated, a drill is basically an exercise in which the learner repeats the target language a number of times...
From what I have read from various people on the web about bringing up bilingual children it seems that one very important aspect is to make sure the child enjoys what they are doing and has fun while picking up the two languages. This also chimes...