Do you sing or read to your baby? Well, even though you might not have intended for it to happen, you may have been helping them develop their language skills. According to researchers in Trinity College and the University of Cambridge, sing-song speech plays a vital role in their learning. The study suggests that rhythmic […]
1 year ago
Time to brush up on the ‘aul French from school? Or your Leaving Cert Irish? Turns out, children who are exposed to a second language from birth (or at least from very early on in their lives) grow up smarter than those from a household where only one language is spoken. According to a new […]
3 years ago
It’s time to watch your language! The language we use around our kids is something we’re all wary of. We make sure not to curse and instead say ‘sugar’ even when we’ve burned the dinner, stubbed our toe, and forgotten to cancel the newspaper subscription we never have time to read. We taught them how […]
4 years ago
A smart move for a very global world. The teaching of foreign languages is to be introduced on a pilot basis to primary schools in Ireland from third class onwards. The “language sampler module” will be introduced to third- to sixth-class pupils in more than 100 primary and special schools across the country, and the […]
4 years ago
Children today are growing up in a far more multicultural world than we ever did. And it is about time that education and curriculums caught up with that fact. Speaking on Newstalk’s Reimagining Ireland, a new series examining some of the changes people would like to see across a range of areas in a post-pandemic […]
5 years ago
Hur mår ni? I am not going to brag, but being Norwegian, my Swedish is actually pretty decent. Let it be said, though, that Norwegian and Swedish (and Danish too) are very similar in the first place, and more like different dialects of of the same language than totally different languages altogether. However, should you […]
5 years ago