As a nation, we’re pretty notorious for being “rubbish” at languages. But this wasn’t always the case. Throughout British...

"Where's your accent from?" It's likely that you've been asked this at some point in your life... Especially as here in the UK we have...

Over the last couple of decades there has been a fundamental change in how we understand the brain, particularly in relation to how...

Welcome to May – hopefully it's the start of the summer here in the UK!

Have you noticed that the word for May is very similar in many...

Screen time is such a hot topic in the parenting world… is it ‘bad’ for our kids? Is it ‘lazy parenting?’

At Babel...

STOP worrying about the spelling... and START LISTENING! We get it - it was ingrained into us at school to spell correctly - in fact it was a huge...

150 words per minute!! Whoa!

More precisely, when adults speak a language they know well, they produce (on average) 150 wpm.

Sports commentators...

It’s National Pet Month so we've pulled together a multilingual flashcard featuring the Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian...

Learning languages is not necessarily just about the final achievement – being able to communicate in another language (which of course...

What do you call yours? What does your little one call you?

We’ve heard lots of variations on the English word for mum – from mimi to...

English is tough! It can be understood through thorough thought, though.

Did you know the Modern English language we speak today is inherently ...

At Babel Babies we believe it is important to only state something is FACT if there is concrete scientific evidence to back it up.

This means...