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Help for bilingual children going Back to School

By: Summer Blackhurst Help for bilingual children going Back to School With the first day of school on the horizon, more children than ever before in United States history will be heading into bilingual classrooms on their first day. Many parents gravitate towards these bilingual programs because studies have shown…

Language Development Myth #5

By: Smart Coos Statistics show that language learning starts to get complicated after the fourth language, but that does not necessarily mean it’s impossible or even harmful to learn more languages - it just gets a little harder. How you structure language learning for you or your child is usually…

Language Development Myth #4

By: Smart Coos Close to 75% of the world’s population speaks more than one language. It just so happens that, because English is the lingua franca of the world, English-speaking countries tend to have higher levels of monolingualism because most of the world already speaks their language. It is only…

Language Development Myth #3

By: Smart Coos It’s true that children learn to speak a language more easily than adults, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t need help doing so. Like anything else, practice makes perfect. Children don’t even pick up their native language without being exposed to it for long periods of…

Language Development Myth #2

By: Smart Coos For a very long time, it was thought that knowing more than one language would actually hinder your learning by slowing down your learning and confusing you. However, now that extensive research has been conducted in the field of language acquisition and development, it is clear that…

Language Development Myth

Language Development Myth By: Smart Coos Because the United States is one of the few countries in the world that has a mostly monolingual population, pediatricians who study in the States only receive instruction on the language development of monolingual children. Only trained language development specialists receive extensive training on…

Learning Spanish the Right Way

By: Jessie Mundo Edited by: Gelsey Brizo Learning Spanish the Right Way Spanish can be a tricky language, especially with all the anglicisms it keeps accepting. Many words are being borrowed from English and there are a lot of words that sound alike in both languages, but that doesn’t mean…

French Homophones

by: Smart Coos French Homophones Learning languages is fun and exciting, but sometimes it can be a little tricky. We all remember struggling with words that were just so gosh darn similar they tripped us up all the time. “You’re” and “your” always confused me as a kid and my…

Interesting Advantage to Becoming Bilingual

by: Summer Blackhurst Interesting Advantage to Becoming Bilingual Joe Budelli from California doesn’t speak Spanish, but his two girls are in a Spanish speaking dual immersion program and he uses native language speakers in his home to help the girls do well in school. Joe was pleasantly surprised, however, when…

How long does it take your baby’s Coos to be Smart?

by: Gelsey Brizo How long does it take your baby’s Coos to be Smart? So, how long does it take your baby’s coos to be smart? In other words, how long does it take your child to articulate themselves in a second language? Even after countless research and studies have…

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