Babel Babies is reading, quizzing and singing for local hospitals because they are doing such amazing work for our community!
This Bank Holiday weekend we organised Babelathon: a fundraising event for two local hospital charities in Bristol and...
As I write this in a café whilst on a post-Christmas holiday in Paris, I’m listening to my three children play with the words on the menu – making observations about how café is the same in English, and crêpes has a...
The future of communication is never certain, and we can’t just ignore the fact that phones and screen of all kinds are here to stay. Communication has always been constantly changing: change is the one constant! But now phones are not just a...
From January 2020, we will be taking a little sabbatical from running weekly Babel Babies and Bambinos sessions in Bristol and Cheltenham. It has been a whirlwind few months, with our multilingual method gaining attention from education policy makers...
This week Babel Babies won the prestigious Muddy Stilettos Award for Best Children's Business in Gloucestershire.
We are über the mond to say the least, and would like to thank all of you wonderful people for your support for our little language...
Some days you just get up, get dressed and just about keep things ticking over. Other days you get up and organise the first ever International Day of Multilingualism in collaboration with world-renowned academics and language professionals.
It's...
Language learning in schools has hit an all-time low, with a decrease of 30-50% in GCSE languages take-up in some parts of the UK since 2013. It was really quite depressing to read these stats from the BBC News analysis today.
Having mulled it over,...
Did you know you can download Babel Babies multilingual music, and find it on CD (with lyrics booklets) too?
How would you like to entertain your little ones by singing The Wheels on the Bus in German together? Or send your baby off to sleep with...
Do conversations with toddlers work? This is a headline we spotted today. We sometimes get asked why we bother talking to children under 2, because they can’t have a conversation (the implication being they can’t understand).
Well, they can...
I'm always on the lookout for new ways of exploring languages with our children, and the new app Unuhi immediately caught my eye. We've been using it this half term to compare French/English and English/Italian texts and brush up our vocabulary...
On the eve of the Babel Boy's birthday, Cate reflects on how being a part of the little language revolution (whether he wants to or not!) has shaped his outlook as he reaches his 8th year.
When he was born, I didn't know if I was going to speak English...
So here's a thought: when has Britain ever been anything other than multilingual to the max? Our ancestors spoke Old Norse, and then Old German, and then French for six hundred years... and English has remnants of all of these languages and more in its...
