Posted in Articles, Bilingualism on Jul 9th, 2015
Guest post by Laura Caputo-Wickham It’s a warm sunny day in the south of England, and I am enjoying a cup of coffee with some other mums that I met at my antenatal course. We make a point to meet up regularly and so far we have managed. Our babies are now toddlers and are […]
Posted in Articles, Books, language tools on Jul 2nd, 2014
Benefit of bilingualism Raising children bilingual and bicultural is one of the main benefits that parents and educators can provide them. Although the common understanding of exposing children to more than one language is often equal to slow development, confusion and damage to the use of the first language, in reality bilingual children […]
Posted in Associations, Italian culture, Italian language classes, Organizations on May 7th, 2012
Did you know that just an hour a week of foreign language gives an important grounding in the language which allows leads to conversation? If you like the idea of your children learning Italian, you will be happy to know that the Italian Cultural Society of Sacramento brings Italian language to the many children who do not […]
Posted in Schools on Mar 29th, 2012
If you live in the Parsippany, New Jersey area and wish to keep your family’s language, history, and values alive, you may want to go and visit this new school: Italian School NJ The school is coming to Parsippany in collaboration with the PAL and the local Sons of Italy chapter and offers classes and private and semi-private […]
Posted in Associations on Mar 15th, 2012
Here is another opportunity to practice and learn Italian in the New York city area with an organization called Italian Charities of America. It was founded in 1936 and its main headquarters are located at 83-20 Queens Boulevard, Elmhurst, New York 11373. Telephone (718) 478-3100. It was established to assist Italians and Italian-Americans in need […]
Posted in Associations, Italian culture on Feb 17th, 2012
If you live in the Northern New Jersey area, you should check out this interesting organization: D’Italia Programs, a community based not for profit organization dedicated to Italian American Culture. Within the D’Italia programs you will find: The Coro d’Italia singing and dancing Ensemble established in 1932. The Scuola d’Italia (Italian School) offering culture and language […]
Posted in Articles, Italian culture on Jan 18th, 2012
Young Italian children play a game that is very similar to the one known as “Ring-a-Ring-o’-Roses”. It is called Girotondo. How to play: The children make a ring by holding hands and walking in a circle while chanting a short rhyme. At the end of the song they throw themselves down onto the ground and […]
Posted in Articles on Sep 12th, 2011
Almost all human beings acquire a language (and sometimes more than one), to the level of native competency, before age 5. Most researchers agree that children acquire language through interplay of biology and environmental factors. A challenge for linguists is to figure out how nature and nurture come together to influence language learning. Language acquisition […]
Posted in Articles, language tools on Aug 16th, 2011
The one-parent-one-language method (OPOL) is a popular method for teaching young children to speak multiple languages. With this method each parent speaks only one language with the child. The language used by the parent is usually the language that is native to that parent. Although the OPOL method is very popular and very effective, there […]
Posted in Articles, language tools on Aug 11th, 2011
Many parents are eager to teach their children a second language, but pretty soon they feel overwhelmed by worries and concerns. Some common ones are: Will my bilingual child be a little slower learning to speak? Normally a child’s speech is not delayed because he is bilingual. Bilingual children learn at different speed, so some […]
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