Noah CooperImage: jscreationzs / freedigitalphotos.net Thomas and I were talking on Skype to my parents back in the UK the other day when they mentioned something that I had noticed in passing before. Although he doesn’t have many words and he babbles...
As any good second language learner knows, sometimes you either don’t know or can’t find the word you need in order to communicate what you want. In this case you have to find an alternative way of getting your message across. Before T...
In the world of second language learning there is quite a debate at the moment about the use of drills for language learning. For the uninitiated, a drill is basically an exercise in which the learner repeats the target language a number of times...
From what I have read from various people on the web about bringing up bilingual children it seems that one very important aspect is to make sure the child enjoys what they are doing and has fun while picking up the two languages. This also chimes...
One utterance with so many different meanings. No, não (no in Portuguese), no (a preposition in Portuguese meaning ‘in’), know, Noel (my brother’s name). I realise that in the adult world some of these have slightly different...
We are getting more and more chatter by the day now. Most of it is random, meaningless (at least to us it is) sounds. One thing we have noticed, though, is the use of ‘a’ before words. Instead of just saying ‘mamãe’ for...