We created Petit Sounds, a podcast about multilingual parenting, for bi-cultural, bilingual, and multilingual families, so they can understand the process of first and second language acquisition and foster multilingualism at home.
Play Episode View episode detailsAround 90% of the world’s languages are tonal, meaning that unlike English, Spanish, or German, tone patterns are used to disting…
In this episode, Héctor and Elaine explore some of the questions you might want to consider when raising a child in a bilingual h…
In this episode, Héctor and Elaine explore nouns, how babies learn to identify them before being able to pronounce them, then eve…
In this episode, Héctor and Elaine explore the myths, advantages, and potential disadvantages around being bilingual or multiling…
It might not take long for your baby to go from speaking their first words to combining them, but the way they do so is more expl…
In their previous episode, Elaine and Hector discussed language during pregnancy. Now they look at how babies understand and begi…
Elaine and Hector take questions from the listeners about second-language adoption and raising a child in a language that is not …
Meet Elaine. She was born in the Dominican Republic, speaks German, but wanted to practise Spanish. On a trip to Mexico in 2015, …
Hallo, Hola, Hello! Welcome to Petit Sounds, a podcast about multilingual parenting, with your hosts Elaine and Héctor. We create…