Petit Sounds
Petit Sounds
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.
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Chapter Eight: Music and Language
Around 90% of the world’s languages are tonal, meaning that unlike English, Spanish, or German, tone patterns are used to disting…
Chapter Seven: How to help bilingual and multilingual children in the…
In this episode, Héctor and Elaine explore some of the questions you might want to consider when raising a child in a bilingual h…
Chapter Six: How babies and children learn words
In this episode, Héctor and Elaine explore nouns, how babies learn to identify them before being able to pronounce them, then eve…
Chapter Five: The good, the bad and the false of bilingualism
In this episode, Héctor and Elaine explore the myths, advantages, and potential disadvantages around being bilingual or multiling…
Chapter Four: On syntax and how children put words together4
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…
Chapter Three: Language milestones and first words
In their previous episode, Elaine and Hector discussed language during pregnancy. Now they look at how babies understand and begi…
Chapter Two: Language during pregnancy
Elaine and Hector take questions from the listeners about second-language adoption and raising a child in a language that is not …
Chapter One: The Language Café
Meet Elaine. She was born in the Dominican Republic, speaks German, but wanted to practise Spanish. On a trip to Mexico in 2015, …
Introducing Petit Sounds, the multilingual parenting podcast
Hallo, Hola, Hello! Welcome to Petit Sounds, a podcast about multilingual parenting, with your hosts Elaine and Héctor. We create…