Noah Cooper(Wikipedia) A while ago I was talking to a good friend of mine who used to be an English teacher, but who has now moved on to other things. We were talking about how frustrating it can be teaching young children English and, despite only ever...
AHA! (Benabomb on Wikimedia CC-BY-SA 3.0) For a long time Mr. T has been saying ‘dah‘ for ‘yes’ or ‘sim‘, as I might have mentioned before. And then last week it changed. I had half expected him to start saying...
If Darth Vader had been a good dad. blurppy.com I am a bad daddy. My wife is a bad mamãe. My dad is a bad do doe (granddad) and my mum is a bad nana. How do I know this? Because my son has told us all exactly how bad we are. And the thing is I am...
Image: 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...
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...
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...