How do children acquire second languages?

It turns out second language acquisition shows parallels but also a lot of differences to first language acquisition. And second language acquisition theories were developed along the lines of first language acquisition theories. [......]

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Tags: Children’s second language acquisition, How Children acquire second languages | Bilingual Baby, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | May 28, 2009 6:45 pm | Comments (0)

In the last lesson, I showed you How to say mom, dad and baby in Chinese? In today’s lesson, the Chinese words I will teach teaching are aunt and uncle. [......]

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Tags: Chinese learning for babies, how to say aunt in Chinese, how to say uncle in Chinese, learn chinese for free, teaching young children chinese | Bilingual Baby, From Mommy | mommy | May 22, 2009 6:07 pm | Comments (2)

No matter how many theories concerning how babies acquire languages are discussed by scientists, children everywhere follow a similar pattern in their biological organized schedule to acquire languages. [......]

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Tags: baby acquires languages, baby learns languages, bilingual research, Stages of baby’s language acquisition | Bilingual Baby, From Mommy | mommy | May 13, 2009 12:50 pm | Comments (2)

At 10 month, DD continually scrambled out of sight. Nothing made her happier than discovering hidden pots and pans inside drawlers, unloading clean knives and forks from the dishwasher, taking a peek inside the mysterious refrigerator, tearing Daddy’s favorite painting which used to be out of her reach, or dropping a spoon from the highchair over and over again. And if I was not stifling the urge to say “no!”, I would find myself stuck in her tossing or dropping game. Yes, at this age, it looked more like DD was training me rather than the opposite way. [......]

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Tags: baby training, month 10 | Baby Training, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | May 8, 2009 9:20 am | Comments (0)

Most 10-month-old babies are confident crawlers and continue making major gains in development and begin displaying a little independence. Yes, that is DD. Her newfound mobility enabled her to explore her surroundings and discover hidden pots and pans inside kitchen drawlers, unload clean knives and forks from the dishwasher, take a peek inside the mysterious refrigerator and tear Daddy’s favorite painting which used to be out of her reach. Our fearless baby terminator was back, with better gears. [......]

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Tags: Baby’s growth, month 10 | Baby's Growth, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | May 2, 2009 10:50 am | Comments (0)