Bilingual Babes

Latest Blog Posts - Bilingual Babes

• Update (very long overdue!!!)
  on Apr 12, 2014
  Schmoo, age 1Schmoo, age 9Pan-Pan, age 1Pan-Pan, age 6Here are my ickle bilingual babes, all grown-up! My experiment of raising children in a language that is not my mother tongue and that I am, at best, only 'proficient' in, has worked a treat: Both...
• REVIEW: Plushkies
  on Jul 21, 2013 in children's toys Mandarin
  Schmoo & Pan-Pan larking around with Mei MeiWhen children's website Plushkies asked me to review their clever educational soft toys, I was thrilled! I knew my kids would love them and since I am dead keen for them to learn about other countries,...
• RESOURCES: 5 fascinating things I've learned about Mandarin
  on Jul 13, 2013 in Mandarin multicultural children
  1. Mandarin is spoken by an incredible 885 million people! That's more than double the 400 million people who speak English.2. If you speak both Mandarin & English, you can communicate with over half of the world's people! (Mandarin is the most w...
• RAISING BILINGUAL CHILDREN: Get kids talking game
  on Jul 6, 2013 in minority language bilingual children language
  The Alien game (or the 'get kids talking' game)The idea is to pick a word your kid knows very well, like 'the sun' or 'a tiger'. Then you pretend to be an alien, just arrived on planet earth, and they need to describe what that word actually means.&n...
• RAISING MULTICULTURAL CHILDREN: Magic skin
  on Jul 1, 2013 in raising multicultural children multicultural multicultural children
  Schmoo feeling good in her 'magic' skinA few days ago on the school run, one of Schmoo's friends suddenly turned to her and announced, 'Your daddy's really dark, isn't he? He's almost black!' Schmoo seemed a bit surprised and quickly responded, 'So?'...
• RESOURCES: Our Mandarin products & wishlist
  on Jun 22, 2013 in Mandarin raising bilingual children
  1. Learning to say charactersE-Readbook & penWe own this, although I needed to use Google translate to help me buy it! It's exactly like the LeapFrog Tag system, but for Mandarin, and my kids adore it. They play with it for hours, clicking on the...
• RAISING BILINGUAL CHILDREN: Not that kind of mum!
  on Jun 15, 2013 in bilingual children
  Piano practiseYummy Mummy, the buzzword of the our time! It seems that women like me are meant to be running blue chip companies from our kitchen tables in between breastfeeding, making jam and growing our own herbs. It all seems like a long way away...
• CRAFTS: Building a cardboard castle
  on Jun 8, 2013 in children's crafts
  First, we gathered all of our old cardboard boxes together to see how we could best design our castle. We decided our castle had to have a moat and a drawbridge, so we started there, by painting the inside of one of the larger boxes blue for wat...
• RAISING MULTICULTURAL CHILDREN: French macarons
  on Jun 1, 2013 in multicultural French culture French food
  Perfect macarons in every flavour at LaduréeToday I took the kids on an important French cultural outing... to the macaron shop Ladurée in Covent Garden! I actually didn't know the shop, but was out with a friend who knew it from Paris. She said we...
• RAISING MULTILINGUAL CHILDREN: Mandarin progress
  on May 25, 2013 in Mandarin multilingual products
  To help with the kids' burgeoning Mandarin, I bought one of those talking pens online, along with a few of the books. After a bit of research, we picked the e-Readbook system and it's great, has plenty of books to go with it and is super simple to us...

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