October 14, 2007at 1:32 pm
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Gesture reflects or body language language development: Evidence from bilingual children
Using hand gestures to help you in expressing yourself was seen as a sign of weak verbal or language development. A substitution for verbal fluency. However, the work on Elena Nicoladis Department of Psychology University of Alberta indicates the contrary. Children who used more hand gestures and […]
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October 12, 2007at 11:02 am
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15% more earnings for bilingual skills
I have been looking around at how much people get paid for being bilingual. If you are talking apples and apples, bilingualism will reward you with about a 15% increase per year in your pay. However, this is for basic job. The reward for a professionals, will be a higher, […]
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October 5, 2007at 3:38 pm
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Bilingual babies learn in a different way
What is the difference in learning method? Bilingual babies focus on learning as many words as possible, monolingual babies focus on the small details of the words they learn.
Bilingual babies develop a strategy that they will focus their cognitive energies on associating words with with concrete objects. Two words […]
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September 24, 2007at 12:33 pm
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Where do babies get words
Babies learn from their parents not from TV
Babies learn from their parents not from TV. In fact some accelerated DVD language learning for slows babies progress. DVDs are good for children and great for adults but for babies, they respond really only to real live humans, in other words, their parents. […]
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September 24, 2007at 12:13 pm
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Bilingual education in America
The USA has given more funding and starting new programs in bilingual education in the public schools. The objective is to make the USA more competitive in the global market. These programs are just not traditional languages classes in a foreign language, but these are true bilingual education programs in public schools. […]
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September 22, 2007at 4:24 pm
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What gives away a foreigner when trying to speak a language accent or grammar
Accent
If you want to sound like a native what will give you away, grammar mistakes or accents? Accents of course. I hear people in the States make grammar mistakes all the time, even if they are native speakers, however, people who have perfect […]
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September 18, 2007at 12:49 pm
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Bilingual brains
If you are bilingual, even better if you are bilingual from childhood, more and more research is supporting the theory that your bilingual abilities will delay or even prevent dementia. The idea is that when you speak more than one language you need to have the ability to differentiate between two distinct sets of rules […]
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September 11, 2007at 7:39 am
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Russian in Russia
Learn Russian
Years ago people use to dream of living in France. My sister spent a year in Paris working for a French bank. But for the pay you get you can live in a small room in Paris with strange plumbing as many of the building codes are out of date.While in Moscow […]
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August 12, 2007at 1:16 pm
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Babies start learning languages at 3 days
As soon as children are born babies start to differentiate sounds. And Babies can do it well. For a baby language learning is all about organizing different sounds into meaningful patterns. Even under the age of one a baby understand grammar. Its brain has put it into a language […]
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April 28, 2007at 9:08 am
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How to learn vocabulary
With right lessons, non-native kindergarteners learn vocabulary faster than native English-speakers fromThe University of Chicago Press-An important study from The Elementary School Journal explores vocabulary development at the kindergarten level among English-only students (EOs) and English-language-learning students (ELLs) who speak another language at home. Analyzing rates of target word acquisition and overall […]
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