Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Hola means Hello

Every parents wants their child to be the best. Whether it be the best at school, writing, sports, or in my case learning two languages. My goal and hope is to have Easton be able to speak English and Spanish. My personal opinion is that someday in the near future everyone will have to learn another language. So to help Easton learn another language James and I did our research.

Did you know that....
*At about seven months, a baby's neocortex develops to the point that their long-term memory starts working. This is the beginning of what psycholinguists and neurologists call a child's critical period. During this stage, and until the brain begins losing its plasticity around age 12 or 13, children have their greatest potential to absorb and retain language skills.

*Many English words share Latin roots with Spanish, French and other languages. Learning the meaning of a foreign word enhances a student's chance of knowing the meaning of an English word.

*Language is stored in the brain's left hemisphere, with pronunciation and grammar in the Brocas area. If we learn a word after puberty we will always pronounce it differently than if we learned it before our critical period ends. This is because by age 13, newly learned words are channeled to a completely different place in the Brocas area.

Easton is approaching 7 months and with all the research we have done NO ONE said that starting early would "hurt" a child. So what did we do? We went out and bought him a computer that speaks not only English but Spanish.

Take a look at a future bi-lingual child

Your looking at a genius



Umm, excuse me what is this lady saying?

Hmm, if I press this button it starts to sing

Okay, I'm getting the hang of this. Not quite sure what she keeps saying
but I'm liking it

Let me get down on the floor and explore this a little better
No tenga inconveniente en las ayudas de la banda en las piernas, yo acabo de llega a casa de conseguir mis disparos. Y ninguna Mami no supo cómo escribir esto en español, ella utilizó freetranslation.com

TRANSLATION: Don't mind the band aids on my legs, I just got home from getting my shots. And no Mommy did not know how to write this in Spanish, she used freetranslation.com

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