Multilingual, Bilingual, That Is The Question!
Sunday, August 14th, 2011Dear Readers,
This week, while planning for our first multilingual playdate, I started thinking about how parents feel when they need to chose a foreign language to their children and why chose at all!
I have started a research to develop a program which will give parents some easy tools to teach basics of any languages at home, even without knowing the language and the most important, making it fun!
While thinking about activities for the playdate, I decided to use colorful balls and have children kick them around the room while counting the kicks, parents will coach with a helper sheet. Lot’s of fun!
If you would like to do this activity at home, here is the vocabulary for Spanish, Portuguese and German:
| eins | 1 |
| zwei | 2 |
| drei | 3 |
| vier | 4 |
| fünf | 5 |
| sechs | 6 |
| sieben | 7 |
| acht | 8 |
| neun | 9 |
| zehn | 10 |
| eins | 1 |
| zwei | 2 |
| drei | 3 |
| vier | 4 |
| fünf | 5 |
| sechs | 6 |
| sieben | 7 |
| acht | 8 |
| neun | 9 |
| zehn | 10 |
| um | 1 |
| dois | 2 |
| tres | 3 |
| quatro | 4 |
| cinco | 5 |
| seis | 6 |
| sete | 7 |
| oito | 8 |
| nove | 9 |
| dez | 10 |
| uno | 1 |
| dos | 2 |
| tres | 3 |
| cuatro | 4 |
| cinco | 5 |
| seis | 6 |
| siete | 7 |
| ocho | 8 |
| nueve | 9 |
| diez | 10 |
Going back to our question, I think above all, you need to offer a fun experience to your child, so if one or 10 languages, which they capable of learning at the same time, you must search for a fun way to bring them into their daily playtime and not make it a chore, a duty!!!
If you do the activity at home and send us the video to: claudia@easylearnlanguages.com, we will post your video on the blog.
Have fun!
Claudia Krusch
EasyLearn Languages
