Noah CooperAlmost a year ago, I wrote about Mr T’s musical tastes. As you might expect, they have since changed a little bit, with the biggest difference being that there are now a couple of Brazilian songs in his favourites list. However, I am glad, and...
Finally, after what seems an interminable wait, we are in our new house. Despite living in Brazil, the house we have bought could have been transplanted from a typical British terrace in any city in the UK. The first thing that practically...
On a trip to see my parents a couple of years ago Mr T was just starting to use individual words. He had aninclination to create his own names for certain things, the most memorable of which was ‘abudah’ for ‘car’. Unfortunately, that word has now...
Things I will write about. Soon. Honest. Ok, so it might seem a bit late to wishing you everyone a happy new year. But it feels exactly right to me because now that carnival is out of the way the year has really begun here in earnest here in...
Howlin’ Wolf by Ghetu Daniel (CC-BY-2.0) We have a new obsession in our house at the moment: Wolves. More precisely, The Big Bad Wolf. Or at other times it’s the Lobo Malvado. I think it started at school when he heard the story of Little...
Before Mr.T was born I had the responsibility of researching how we were going to approach language in our family. Both Mrs Head of the Heard and I wanted to him to speak both English and Portuguese, but we weren’t quite sure how to go about it...
Scrabble by jcolman – (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Hello and welcome to this month’s Blogging Carnival for Raising Multilingual Children. I asked people to submit things they have written on the theme of Language Play and it has been an honour to be...
English: The game Bananagrams, showing pieces and banana-shaped carrying container. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) How do we learn language? Why do we learn language? Once we have learnt language, what do we use it for? These are all questions I have...
After the game Shame! Embarrassment! Humiliation! Scandal! Ignominy! Words such as these were bandied about on Tuesday evening. There were tears from more than one person. A few arguments broke out. Some wondered out loud if they would be...
Footy and Music by agthom – CC BY-NC-2.0 Right back at the beginning of the Word Cup, and the start of my series of posts for MKB World Cup for Kids, I asked people what Brazil was famous for, with the idea that I could write some posts based...