Teaching languages to children

un deux trois on y va

2011-05-20T11:00:00.000-07:00

Un deux trois on y va
quatre cinque six mon petit fils
sept huit neuf manger un oeuf
dix onze douze sur la pelouse

Nauka części ciała (twarzy)

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Beau front -- czyli zabawa z dzieckiem w naukę części twarzy

Coq gluton

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Comment lire une histoire. How to read a story... it can be sometimes hard when a child is active like mine
Czytanie książek w łóżku może być trudne gdy dziecko jest tak aktywne jak moje. Ale ... dajemy radę :))

Opowiadamy historię z gestami

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How to tell a story with gestures...
and the story is Le royaume de Dieu est comme une graine de moutarde...

preparing for the bath.. can be quite long

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into the water

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in the water

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the foam on your nose

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this is how you can teach body parts and prepositions

bathroom English 2

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bathroom English

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what are you hiding?

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let's brush your teeth

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What matches what

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a child always speaks his mother tongue, he asks questions and answers in it.
but i can see that he understands English... one day he ll start to answer in English ...

mamo dzien dobry

2011-05-01T12:27:00.000-07:00

sometimes a child reeeally wants mummy to speak Polish not English heheh
what to do? let it be

czasem dziecko naprawdę chce żeby mama mówiła tylko po Polsku
i co wtedy? nic. mówimy po polsku... trochę i wracamy do angielskiego jak się da

bored or tired child

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sometimes a child doesn't want to listen to a book in English or... to any book at all

Three blind mice - singing a song

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singing a song in English

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a child watching a movie in English

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Mikołajek ogląda bajki angielskie i najwyrażniej rozumie o co chodzi :)

a child singing in English and playing the guitar :)

2011-03-05T13:36:00.000-08:00

Mikolaj likes some songs of Helen Doron. especially the ones with the word "morning"
he tries to sing it, no, he sings it and plays the guitar :)

Reading fairy tales to a child

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how to read a long fairy tale to a 2 year old?
not to read it, or not in full. point to pictures, ask questions, make sounds... reading the most important, tell a story in your own words

Teaching animal sounds and some other

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while reading a book in English --- here goes my puffer train, we can teach different typically English sounds like animal sounds or machines' sounds or splish splash sound of the nature

Czytanie książki po angielsku może być sposobem na uczenie odgłosów natury

rajstopki stockings - using the word's melody

2011-03-05T11:58:00.000-08:00

you can teach a child clothes names while putting some clothes on him...
you can also make use of some rhyming words or find the similarities -- it is easier to a child to remember
same way as it is easier to learn when we listen to words which are sung

Mikolaj nicely saying -- cho cho train

2011-03-05T11:54:00.000-08:00

hmmm, I would advise, as a teaching mum, never to give up on your child. he most of the time doesnt want to speak, learn... mine says -- Cicho! Silence! when I speak a foreign language too often when he doesnt want to hear it. he is in a process of learning Polish after all. and it's the most important

but a child does learn , all the time, and he does repeat, and does remember words and recognises them even when we could think he has all forgotten
just keep on going, the routine, repetitions and consequence is the road to success :)

a child still doesnt want to learn

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but learns therefore the word NO to perfection :)

sometimes a child just doesnt want to learn

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teaching body parts after bathing

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trying to sing in French

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children sometimes get naughty when we teach... or rather they are naughty most of the time :)

trois petit canards - une chanson dans le bain

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I am happy I am sad

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A child understands what I am asking about

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I ask questions in French and get answers in Polish. maybe mixed up but all correct. so the child understand French... it s all i wanted.

Ja pytam po francusku , en francais - ou est le bateau? a dziecko mówi -- Tutaj. (ici, here :)

ou est le bateau

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Mikołaj singing Bob the builder

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I think that a good way to teach children languages is to buy them toys that sing and speak in a foreign language. Not really a book which reads the story. I think that a story should be read mostly by parents or teachers, but toys are a good idea...
It s like talking to a foreigner :) in a way

Reading English books 2

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Reading English books to my child

Reading English books 1

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Reading English books

Good night rituals

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Good night sleep tight , don't let the bedbugs bite... it is another our ritual..

Speaking French in the red water

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Teaching French using pictures

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Singing French songs

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Dans la foret lointaine on entend le coucou
Du haut de son grand chaine il repond au hibou...
coucou coucou..

it's a popular lullaby :)
my child knew the word hibou in French earlier than the one in Polish :)

The crab chant

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The crab chant and how to do it :)

Reading French books 2

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we are reading a book about a teddy bear

Reading French books 1

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Evening French speaking after bathing

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games to play

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French game, you play it by walking with your fingers on the body of the child and chanting the verses
there is lots of laugh and gigles

Un crabe mefie toi , ca marche ca marche
un crabe mefie toi , ca pince quelquefois

English version is the translation of French, I do not know the English original

the crab be careful the crab be careful
the crab is walking towards you
the crab be careful the crab be careful
the crab is biting sometimes

in Polish we say - cancer not crab,

idzie rak nieborak jak uszczypnie będzie znak
idzie rak nieborak jak uszczypnie będzieeeee znak!

watch the movie on youtube soon

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A French evening story

What exactly can you do to teach?

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I will tell you how I teach languages to my child:

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we learn French
Thursday, Friday and Saturday we learn English.
Sunday is a purely Polish day.

What do I do?

I read foreign books for goodnight, before putting him to bed.
I let him listen to foreign songs.
I let him watch foreign children films.
I play with him with his bath rubbers toys, speak to him in a foreign language, and I show him stickers on the bathroom wall, during his evening bath.
I let him listen to foreign audio stories.
I play games (using the body, fingers, singing songs with actions) with my child

How to teach languages to children

2011-02-08T02:09:00.000-08:00

Easy cheesy :))
just watch my movies here
and download props and copy ideas
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