These are some of the seriously cool benefits of learning languages:
Improved social skills
Appreciation of diversity
Can delay the onset of...
Don't you find there's so much conflicting advice out there on the dos and don't of parenting?!
It's definitely the case with teaching your...
You've been speaking your home language (e.g. Lithuanian) together since they were born. Your little one is about to start school. Should you...
By 12 months, babies understand about 50 words (Fenson et al., 1994) and by age 6 a typically developing child knows between 9,000 and 14,000...
Ever wondered why we can identify our own baby's cry amongst others? Some fascinating research I've been reading about at uni this month has a...
Far from being confounded by the slew of sounds they hear from birth (and even before), babies are slowly and carefully piecing together evidence...
Yes, Babel Babies is a multilingual programme, but that's not to say that children can learn infinite languages simultaneously, or that a...
There is so much confusion around mixing languages, and it worries me that parents and children are often left feeling ashamed of this very...
I often hear people saying 'the earlier the better' when it comes to learning languages. But it's a more complex issue that needs some unpacking,...
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...
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...
When we saw the Black & White Book Project on instagram was from Bristol, we just had to find out more about these locally-produced books for...
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