I am getting lots of comments on the first few posts of this blog, thanks everyone. They are all fascinating stories of people teaching their kids all kinds of strange combinations of languages. Victor says: “We’re intending to raise our son, now 10 months-old, speaking English and German. But we haven’t settled on a method [...]
It’s a little too hip, but I still like it. We taught our baby sign language (just a few signs), and it was (still is) really, really useful for all that time between 6 months and 2 years when she couldn’t really speak yet, but still wanted to communicate. In fact, I wonder how babies [...]
Tagged baby sign, sign languageThe first time I realized that Amelia actually understood two languages was when I was watching a movie I just made of her doing some simple signs (we taught her a few signs) a few weeks ago. I realized then that I was asking her to make the signs in Dutch as well as in [...]