{"id":639,"date":"2010-02-25T16:16:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:59:05","slug":"bilingual-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/25\/bilingual-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilingual babies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I posted<\/a> about how bilingualism can apparently be promoted even before babies are born. Introducing a second language at a young age seems to be a very popular idea \u2013 a mother in Scotland has won an international prize for teaching French to babies. (https:\/\/www.chimamanda.com\/<\/a>) <\/p>\n

Fiona Moffat and her company, Lingobaby<\/a>, aim to introduce a second language at a young age, and run sessions for children from birth to five years old.<\/p>\n

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“There are no expectations that they come out with French words, but often you can hear babies of about 15-16 months say bits of words like ‘bonjour’, ‘merci’ and ‘au revoir’,” she said. <\/p>\n

Ms Moffatt said there were “huge” benefits to babies and toddlers learning foreign languages. <\/p>\n

“If children are exposed to the sounds of a language before the age of nine months, they’re much more likely to pick the sounds out at a later age,” she said.<\/p>\n

“We’ve also had a lot of comments from parents who are coming to classes that it just makes language learning normal.” (Source: BBC News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I wonder exactly how much of the language these children actually pick up, or whether it\u2019s more about laying down some foundations for learning in later years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I posted about how bilingualism can apparently be promoted even before babies are born. Introducing a second language at a young age seems to be a very popular idea \u2013 a mother in Scotland has won an international prize for teaching French to babies. (https:\/\/www.chimamanda.com\/) Fiona Moffat and her company, Lingobaby, aim to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40,44],"tags":[625,321,15,368,40,544,234,44],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-language-acquisition","category-words","tag-baby-lingo","tag-bilingualism","tag-education","tag-foreign-languages","tag-language-acquisition","tag-lingo","tag-second-language","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}