What is the difference between language acquisition and language learning. Some people use the term of language acquisition for all the phases that lead to language fluency, including learning to read and write. Others use the term of language learning even for babies and very young, pre-school children. – But there is a […]
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Impara l’italiano cantando
Imparare un’altra lingua si può in modi diversi. Personalmente ho fatto l’esperienza che ascoltando musica aiuta molto a comprendere l’intonazione, ad apprendere vocabolario. Ed è un modo molto piacevole per imparare la lingua. Canzoni sono poesia. Le parole in rima ripetute più volte ed accompagnate dalla musica aiutano a memorizzarle meglio. Alcune canzoni hanno un […]
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What is your maths language?
When our children are schooled in another language since the beginning, their most dominant language for counting and doing maths is the school language.
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Dutch language resources
The best way to learn Dutch is to fully immerse into the language and join the worldwide 23 million native speakers in the Netherlands, Flanders, Suriname, or the 4 million people who speak Dutch as a second or foreign language. You can also start with listening to a local radio (online), watch local TV, get in contact […]
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Home Language Maintenance with Teenagers
[update May 2023] If you have teenagers whose school language is not one of the home languages it might be difficult to make them read, write and “immerse” into the home languages. If they don’t get any formal education in those languages it is very difficult to maintain them at home. The switching to the […]
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