by wordsmith | Jan 9, 2018 | News
As one of the only nanny agencies in the UK to specialise in bilingual childcare, we thought we’d start the year by reviewing some of the most useful languages for your child (or anyone else, for that matter!) to learn in 2018. In first place, it has to be Mandarin....
by wordsmith | Jul 15, 2017 | News
While it is obvious that the ability to speak a second language can be of immense benefit personally and professionally throughout ones life, academics have also found that the process of learning another language may have a significant effect on a child’s overall...
by wordsmith | Feb 15, 2017 | News
New research would appear to show, what experts have suspected for a long time; that bilingual or monolingual individuals have brains which function more efficiently and more economically, a benefit which grows over time. Years of bilingualism seems to mean that the...
by wordsmith | Feb 7, 2017 | News
This month researchers at the University of California have published a study which seems to suggest that Mandarin Chinese makes you more musical. The paper in Developmental Science (January 2017) reported that in experiments, a group of pre-school children whose...
by wordsmith | Jan 11, 2017 | News
A professor of linguistics at the University of Essex has recently tried to prove the age-old maxim that young children pick up a new language “like a sponge” with considerable success. The idea that as we get older, we find it more difficult to learn a foreign...
