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Bringing up Multilingual Children with Less Common Home Languages

by languagelizard April 15, 2013 community support

On a sunny day in London, when the streets are crowded with people enjoying the rare warmth, you can hear an abundance of different languages from the majority migrant groups in the city: families discussing the school day in Somali; teenagers gossiping in Turkish; imams greeting each other in Urdu.   But passing by the shop [...]

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World Folktales and Fables: Effective Teaching Tools Educate & Entertain Children

by languagelizard March 22, 2013 At Home
World Folktales and Fables Week

By Anneke Forzani Photo credit: Murgelchen94 Children love folktales and fables. With their simple characters and settings, as well as an enticing conflict early in the story, folktales immediately grab a reader’s attention. Recall The Three Billy Goats Gruff, in which all three goats need to get to the other side of the bridge for [...]

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Building Baby Brains with Two Languages

by languagelizard March 13, 2013 At Home
Building Baby Brains with Two Languages

By Karen Nemeth, Ed.M. Photo credit: christine (cbszeto) Learning to talk is one of the biggest jobs a baby has to do – so wouldn’t learning two languages be confusing? The answer is: No! According to the latest research, babies’ brains are so well prepared to analyze, absorb, and make sense of language, that learning [...]

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The Bilingual Child Month Is Here Again!

by languagelizard October 16, 2012 Families
The Bilingual Child Day 2012

It is that time of year to celebrate: The bilingual child month is here! We are delighted to have the opportunity to celebrate this wonderful month with you! Being bilingual is fun and fabulous – what a perfect reason to celebrate it! The best part of this celebration is that it doesn’t take much effort [...]

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Bilingual Book Promotion Launched on International Literacy Day!

by languagelizard September 8, 2012 Families
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To celebrate International Literacy Day, Language Lizard is launching its Bilingual Book Promotion which will last until the end of October.  Visit the Language Lizard website to learn more about this promotion and how you can receive free bilingual books! The theme for the 2012 International Literacy Day is literacy and peace. As the UNESCO [...]

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Top Bilingual Books for Summertime Reading

by languagelizard July 25, 2012 At Home
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When it comes to choosing bilingual books to share with our little ones during the summer, the choices seem endless. Who can decide on just a few when there are so many to choose from? To help you pick the right bilingual books for your family this summer, we have put together the following lists [...]

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Bilingual Children: Summer Travel Activities

by languagelizard June 27, 2012 At Home
bilingual children: Summertime Travel Activities

Summer is a wonderful time of year to travel: Children are out of school and the warm days beacon for lazy hours at the beach or walks through cool forests. Whether we are traveling by land, air or sea, we can make bilingualism part of every bilingual child’s summertime adventures. Both parents and teachers can [...]

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Bilingual Children: Benefits of Learning to Read in the Home Language

by languagelizard May 27, 2012 Dual Language
bilingual children: Benefits of Learning to Read in the Home Language

We only learn how to read once. This is true for all of us: monolingual, bilingual or multilingual. Once we figure out how literacy works, it is with us forever. The best part about bilingual children learning to read is that once they figure it out in one language, they can transfer their literacy to [...]

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Teaching Children Languages: Benefits & Strategies

by languagelizard March 22, 2012 At Home
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The benefits of bilingualism has been a hot topic in recent years. Magazines, newspapers and blogs extol the fascinating ways in which the bilingual brain effortlessly manipulates more than one language at a time, working more effectively and efficiently than a monolingual one on specific types of tasks. Thanks to their brain’s more robust executive [...]

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$300 Bilingual Book Giveaway!

by languagelizard March 19, 2012 Families
bilingual book giveaway

Language Lizard is giving away $300 worth of bilingual book gift certificates! There are four different ways to qualify for this giveaway so make sure to go to Language Lizard’s BILINGUAL BOOK GIVEAWAY page and find out how you can enter. It is easy! With books in over 40 different languages, you are sure to [...]

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