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One day - One language

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How to increase a minority language exposure It is inevitable that in any multi-lingual family setting one or more languages get more time and focus than the others. Naturally one of the parents or any other adult speaking minority language just gets to spend more time with the kids. Whether a stay at home parent, caregiver or maybe the one that spends a long morning commute with the child. Or there is more relatives around speaking the language. Or simply the adult responsible for passing on the minority language is just not as comfortable with it, gets limited time, cannot naturally hold conversation with a young child or simply gets frustrated to be in it alone.  As the time progresses and LingoPapa works hard away from home to support us, he gets limited time to speak and actively teach children Urdu. It a language that needs more attention in our household. Not only we get the least exposure to it but it also needs more attention due to its Persian script and ba...
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The "WHY" volume II. - Teaching kids a foreign language that is not your mother tongue

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In the previous post I spoke about passing on a mother tongue. But what about teaching another foreign language to a child? I say: ""Why not"? 💪. From own experience I can say that  children are very receptive if they are spoken to by an adult ( be it a parent, educator ...) in a foreign language and make a remarkable progress. I can give an example - our son has been treated by a Chinese doctor who has limited command of English. Once LittleLingo learnt how to greet the doctor in Chinese and saw the positive reaction, he was hooked. LittleLingo anf MiniLingo really enjoy a good foreign language read :)  As per the reasons why parents should consider teaching a foreign language to a child, here are some of ours: 1) Developing passion for languages That is a good thing, right? Show them how it works, make it natural for them. 2) Passing on a life skill Can you speak a conversational Spanish? Do you treasure such skill? Why don't you pass it on ...
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