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Simple Ways to Boost Your Bilingual Child’s Language Skills
14
Apr

Simple Ways to Boost Your Bilingual Child’s Language Skills

By admin commentsbilingual children, learning, native, language, mother tongue, help, advice, how to teach, inspiration, books, films, bilingual books, picturebooks, make learning fun, dual language, games

Raising bilingual children can be challenging, especially if you want them to speak fluently in two (or more) languages.

If you live in an English-speaking country, the English language will always be dominant for your children, regardless of what language you speak to them at home.
 
It is easier when they are small, but once they start to go to school and be exposed to the English language for 6 hours a day, that is when things usually change. Even if they haven’t before, your children suddenly start to speak to you in English.
 

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Making a splash!
19
Oct

Making a splash!

By admin commentsLink4life, KS2, swimming, safely, Swimphony, safety, Returning to the Pool, safe, translations, free, Key Stage 2, National Curriculum, swim, pool, information, wear, Covid, secure, help, for parents, for children, explanation, advice, best practice, practice, Rochdale, Borough, Council, Early Help & Schools, Arabic, Bengali, Sylheti, English, Kurdish, Sorani, Panjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Urdu

The Early Help & Schools Team in Rochdale Borough Council collaborated with Link4Life in publishing multi-lingual letters about the benefits of swimming lessons. The letters are in Arabic, Bengali, Kurdish, Panjabi, Polish, Romanian, Spanish and Urdu. Continuing the spirit of co-operation they have kindly donated these letters to anyone who may have the same challenge.

You can download them free or charge, like all the other letters in the Multi-lingual Letters Library, now.
 

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