Mehrsprachigkeit ist in aller Munde. Gab es bis vor kurzem noch viele Vorbehalte gegen eine mehrsprachige Erziehung – man befürchtete, dass Kinder so weder die eine noch die andere Sprache richtig beherrschen würden –, so weiß man inzwischen, dass Mehrsprachigkeit allerlei positive Effekte auf das Sprechen, Denken und Handeln hat.
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Finger-counting across cultures
Finger-counting differs across cultures and can reveal your base language.
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The importance of developing multilingual listening skills
Did it ever happen to you that people would ask you to repeat what you just said, not because they couldn’t hear you, but because they were incapable of understanding your way of speaking the language? Or maybe you have asked someone to repeat because you didn’t understand what the other person was saying – because […]
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The importance of gestures in the language development of babies and infants
Babies start communicating with us from day one. The sounds they utter will become increasable intelligible: from cooing, to babbling, to monosyllable, bi-syllables up to sentences. The journey of language development in babies and infants is quick and has many facets. What many parents forget to consider is that gestures play an important role in […]
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Literacy skills and music: how our children learn to think in words or sentences
When parents ask me how to help their not verbal children start speaking I usually suggest techniques that involve music. The same goes with literacy skills. Musical notes and a free style of representing music and the spoken word can help our children understand how language works. How language can be “translated” into sounds, and […]
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