From Babbling to Brilliance: Language Development in Bilingual Babies

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Baby babbling and language development Parents hold the key to unlocking the incredible potential within our little ones. When you read, talk, and sing every day with your child from birth, you are laying the foundation for their language development. You are also setting the stage for their growing curiosity and love of learning. Here we’ll explore the joyful world of baby babbling and how the little ones begin their language exploration in more than one language.

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Guide Your Child To Speak More Chinese

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Guide kids to speak Chinese – One Thing You Must Do To Guide Your Child to Speak More Chinese Parents often mention that their children are reluctant to speak Mandarin. To speak more Mandarin, to be exact. “Why is that?” they ask. They often continued with, “They go to Chinese classes online / in person…” “My kids use apps…” “They have textbooks…” “We have storybooks…”   ONE QUESTION My first question to parents is always this one

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Raising A Bilingual Child Is A Journey of Learning And Progress | Bilingual Parenting

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Raising A Bilingual Kid Is A Journey of Learning And Progress One of my cubs started college a few weeks ago. Four of us drove to the school. Three of us came back home. One is in the dorm a few hours away. I told the cubs, “When you go to college I will switch to speaking English to you. No more Chinese.” It sounds like a trick but I was and am serious about it. A

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Teaching Your Child Chinese As Your Heritage Language

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Teaching Your Child Chinese As Your Heritage Language    There are different language and culture proficiency levels when we talk about Chinese as your heritage language.   … In the United States, languages other than English are often thought of and referred to as “foreign” languages. However, many people who live in the United States have cultural connections to and know languages other than English. These languages are not “foreign” to particular individuals or communities; instead, they

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Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

AlsoCelebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of the culture and history of Asian-Pacific Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month originated as a congressional bill in 1978. In 1992, it was expanded from a week to a month-long celebration. This is a time to honor, celebrate and learn more about the diverse Asian-Pacific cultures. Also, it is a great

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Papercutting Art for Lunar New Year of the TIGER – World Culture for Kids

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Papercutting Art for Lunar New Year  – World Culture for Kids   Celebrating Lunar New Year with cultural activities! Papercutting art is a hands-on activity for kids and adults to explore art, the Chinese language, and culture. Chinese paper design art is originated from cutting patterns for Chinese embroidery. Later it transformed into folk art.  The history of paper cutting began in the 4th century in the Hàn dynasty, China. These 2D design papercutting art are window

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Teach Children Languages Through Play with Habbi Habbi

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Teach Children Languages Through Play with Habbi Habbi + You now have a chance to give a fabulous set of Habbi Habbi books (10 bilingual books and a reading wand) to a family or a school!     Hanna and Anne-Louise are the two Mom founders of Habbi Habbi bilingual books and reading wand. The available language combinations for the books are Chinese-English and Spanish-English at this time. Their growing number of books for young readers covers

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How to Raise a Multi-literate Child – The Parents’ Guide + A Giveaway

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Raise Multi-literate Children   Please welcome my fellow teacher friend, Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori! He is the author of  The Parents’ Guide to Raising Multi-literate Children, His website  Library4Multilinguals has a growing number of tools and resource for parents and educators to guide children to read and write in the target languages and reach the goal to raise multi-literate kids. Yoshito is here to tell his story of growing up multilingual and share his home-tested and classroom-tested literacy-building tips,

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I Wrote First Mandarin Sounds for You and Your Child – First Mandarin Sounds

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First Mandarin Sounds is my debut book. I wrote this book to assist families who are learning Mandarin Chinese together. It’s for parents who are learning Mandarin to guide their children to explore the Chinese language with a purpose.  You and your child will learn and grow from the first sounds, first words, to first sentences, and more. “Fun” is a simple word. It’s also an important word in learning and living. When you embed fun in

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Adam Beck Interview on Raising Bilingual Kids and 28 Bilingual English-Spanish Fairy Tales and Fables

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Adam Beck Interview on his latest books and raising bilingual kids journey update You just need to persevere through because day by day week by week month by month year by year it will all add up. Over time you just need to keep going and provide, I mean, build the basic building blocks of progress. Successes are ample language exposure. There are not too many things that are universal about this experience but language exposure is.

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