Did you know young children (especially under-4s) are still learning the appropriate contexts for their languages - whether they speak one or many!...

Is there a recipe for raising bilingual children? In Episode 5 of our podcast we discuss the prevalent myths around bilingualism, such as whether...

In this episode of the podcast, I ask neuroscientist Dr. Thomas Bak about the perfect age to learn languages. Is it ever too late to start? Can you...

Do you say ‘podcast’ or podcarst? I have no idea which one is more ‘me’ and so I sought advice about how we learn to speak...

It's truly incredible how perceptive babies are when it comes to learning to speak. Assuming there are no hearing or cognitive issues with language...

An important stage of language development in humans is the babbling stage. During this time, toddlers make a range of specific sounds as they...

We don’t often understand the process of learning to talk until we need speech and language therapy. It’s something parents have little...

Do you feel like you are 'rubbish at languages’? Over my 20 years as a languages teacher, and the last eleven years running Babel Babies,...

Yes, Babel Babies is a multilingual programme, but that's not to say that children can learn infinite languages simultaneously, or that a...

Parents who are raising their children as bi/ multilingual, or who are simply introducing their little ones to a new language can often be met with...

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

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