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Raising a bilingual child one word at a time

Blog Education Mamas view Featured In the media Research Language Materials Reviews Papas viewBilingual bookshopClassifieds Search Ads Browse Categories Browse Ads Renew Ad Place Ad Edit Ad Show Ad Reply To AdAbout bilingualparenting.comContact usContributors Charles Gregory David Hammonds Lidia Morejudo Nicole Brown Santiago MonteroTeaching Reading and Writing Lectoescritura en español English LiteracyYou are here: Home EducationTo Be Or Not To Be Literate

Living abroad as an expat is hard enough for some, especially if the reason for the move is not out of personal choice, but when children start coming then you add the second language dilema, and when they reach primary school age, then another layer of complexity appears, Literacy.

Bright, colourful and musical Spanish language learning

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The Myth of Early Literacy or Memory at Work in England

One of the main worries of most parents just before their children enter school is the level of Literacy of their children. There are more and more systems to get your child reading quickly, earlier, a lot of the systems even claim that they can help children to start reading at the tender age of []

Introducing language at home with a granny-aupair

Nowadays most people have heard at one point or other the term aupair. Originally from the French, meaning equal to, it defines a foreign worker who in exchange of board, a small salary and the chance to immerse themselves in the local language offers her or his services looking after the children and doing domestic []

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In newly-uploaded TED-Ed lesson titled, The benefits of a bilingual brain, educator Mia Nacamulli teaches how language learning can boost brain health. The video lesson highlight the the three types of bilingual brains that exist and how attitudes to bilingualism have devloped over time. In the 1960s, the lesson states, bilingualism was seen as a []

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