Teaching kids Spanish and Mandarin Chinese at home using fun apps, games, song, picture books and board games.
5 Ways How Creative Writing Helps to Learn a Language Creative writing is fun. At the same time, it requires a precision of expression. Some people believe that creative writing is all about pouring whatsoever comes to your mind on paper. However, in reality, this activity involves playful but thoughtful usage of language, which might…
Please welcome my guest blogger today, Gabriela Simmons, with her post on using books to teach kids another language. Even though I grew up speaking various languages at home, it has not been an easy ride trying to pass these languages to the kids. I have gained the utmost respect for parents making the effort…
This is my third bilingual Spanish book list. Author Derek Taylor Kent wrote the first one. The second bilingual Spanish picture book list is from illustrator Wendy Martin. Today’s list is my own, the result of a pile of bilingual books that I’ve been saving for six months, and the books I read to create a…
Grasshopper and Sensei started learning Chinese when she was in kindergarten. My neighbor tutored Chinese so it was easy to slip this in. I thought we were all set but then she moved away by the end of that school year. To continue their Mandarin, I put my girls into Chinese school for adopted Chinese babies. No…
Judy Martialay, author of ¡HOLA! Let’s Learn Spanish, is my guest author today. She’s giving ideas of how to introduce another language to your kids at home even if you don’t speak a second one (like me)! Giving Your Child Another Language, Even if You’re Monolingual Do you want your child/children to be ready for…
Janet Wong has a great post at Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog on Lunar Year Traditions that span many Asian countries, not just Chinese New Year! But if you are thinking of doing it up for Chinese New Year but need some ideas, I’ve rounded up my posts. If you need a picture book or…
No one in my family can speak Spanish but we’ve been trying for more than ten years to learn to converse. Our efforts have gone in waves of high effort and burn out but we are now at a good place where my kids actually want to go on immersion trips to learn to speak…
The summer is a great time to expose kids to a foreign language. I received a huge box of books from Tuttle Publishing that are perfect for this and I am giving most of them away. Please see the Rafflecopter giveaway below. What languages would your kids be interested in? Are you using any great…
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