Two Languages, Too Confusing? Why You Can Teach Your Baby To Be Bilingual Now
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Two Languages, Too Confusing? Why You Can Teach Your Baby To Be Bilingual Now
Nope, Babies will not feel confuse. They have a natural capacity for learning language - they're actually much better at it than we are. The perfect time to begin your child's multilingual education as young as possible since he/she can easily master all the subtle phonetic differences in pronunciation that will allow him/her to speak foreign tongues with little or no accent. By the time your baby is 1 or so, that ability starts to diminish.
Easy Tips For Teaching Your Baby A Second Language
Easy Tips For Teaching Your Baby A Second Language
You keep hearing that now is the perfect time to teach your baby a second language. But is it possible to go from none to more than one? In a word - yes! Children this age are wired for language. The earlier your baby is introduced to another tongue, the easier it will be for him/her to pick it up., a skill the brain unlearns by the middle-school years, as anyone who's struggling to learn a foreign language later in life will know. Here's how to raise a little linguist: " />
Learn Together
Learn Together
You don't have to be fluent in another language. Bilingual books, toys and other products can teach you both. Also, try to connect your child with native speakers. Consider hiring a babysitter who speaks another language or look for a playground of moms and babies who speak the language you're interested in.
You don't have to be fluent in another language. Bilingual books, toys and other products can teach you both. Also, try to connect your child with native speakers. Consider hiring a babysitter who speaks another language or look for a playground of moms and babies who speak the language you're interested in. Be Consistent
Be Consistent
Use the "one parent, one language" rule. If you're fluent in another language, speak only that language with child while your partner uses the mother tongue. By age 2, he/she will know which language to speak with which adult.
Use the "one parent, one language" rule. If you're fluent in another language, speak only that language with child while your partner uses the mother tongue. By age 2, he/she will know which language to speak with which adult.
Take It One Word At A Time
Take It One Word At A Time
Encourage your child to use the words he/she learns. Even if your baby doesn't retain much at this point, just hearing and speaking another language will give him/her a jumpstart on the ability to interpret and pronounce foreign sounds, which will make learning another language down the road the easier.
Help Your Baby
Help Your Baby
To help your baby absorb his/her second language, make sure/she is immersed in it - occasional chatter isn't enough. Singing songs and reading books in both tongues can be fun, too. but while bilingual toys, books, DVDs and CDs may help your child's grow familiar with the language, nothing will lead him/her to become fluent like the sound of your voice.
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Multilingualism is the use of two or more languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population.http://www.cal.org/resources/Digest/digestglobal.html A Global Perspective on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education (1999), G. Richard Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University
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