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...
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...
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