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Baby is walking and talking now, well talking…
07:45 am | Baby is walking and talking now, well talking… she says some words. After all these months of hectic work, I have finally conjured some strength and time! to sit down and write you…
Aug 24 2011 / 2 Comments / Read More »11:30 pm | In a recent health food conference, Anne Heughan, Director of External Affairs at Unilever, claimed that labels on food…
Dec 6 2010 / No Comment / Read More »07:52 pm | UK Education Minister Michael Gove has suggested plans to create what he calls an ‘English baccalaureate’. It will be…
Sep 7 2010 / No Comment / Read More »04:41 pm | Every year at the end of August we see the TV and papers flood with news about GCSEs and…
Aug 25 2010 / 2 Comments / Read More »09:46 pm | One of the challenges that most parents face nowadays is the battle against TV and computers. The way the…
Aug 23 2010 / No Comment / Read More »07:08 pm | Professor Toto multilingual resources to help parents teach their children a foreign language.…
Jan 1 2011 / No Comment / Read More »07:45 am | Baby is walking and talking now, well talking… she says some words. After all these months of hectic work, I have finally conjured some strength and time! to sit down and write you all some lines. The first few months aren’t easy, I am not talking of the string of nappies, sleepless nights and all…
Aug 24 2011 / 2 Comments / Read More »11:30 pm | In a recent health food conference, Anne Heughan, Director of External Affairs at Unilever, claimed that labels on food should not just be a list of ingredients. She felt that some thought had to be put into the wording of these labels, taking into account the linguistic culture of the target country. As an example…
Dec 6 2010 / No Comment / Read More »07:18 pm | Over the last few months our daughter has come along wonderfully, she is outgoing and communicative. I know that most of you, bilingual parents, will be fed up with hearing the same song “don’t worry, your child will be a late talker, because s/he is bilingual, but it’s normal.” Well, guess what, of all the…
Jan 9 2012 / No Comment / Read More »03:37 pm | Our sixth month old baby, M, might not know any Spanish or English words yet but that’s not stopping her from developing a language of her own. For the first few brief months it’s hard to know what baby wants. Food? A clean nappy? A hug? Entertainment? Papa’s bad guitar playing? From this age they…
Sep 13 2010 / No Comment / Read More »07:18 pm | Over the last few months our daughter has come along wonderfully, she is outgoing and communicative. I know that most of you, bilingual parents, will be fed up with hearing…
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07:52 pm | UK Education Minister Michael Gove has suggested plans to create what he calls an ‘English baccalaureate’. It will be a certificate awarded…
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06:04 am | Learning or acquiring a language. What's the difference? Would you teach your kid a language which isn't your native language?…
Apr 3 2010 / 1 Comment / Read More »10:50 am | We’ve been blogging about how children acquire languages but recently my Apple Macintosh has been also starting to understand words of itself, thanks to MacSpeech Dictate. MacSpeech dictate is current-generation…
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