All parents know that a quiet, gentle lullaby can soothe a fussy baby. As adults, a magnificent symphony can make us swell with excitement. But music also can affect the way we learn. Music is one of the few activities that involves using

To the contrary— in fact, children can learn many languages at the same time, become completely bilingual or even mutilingual and there are only benefits from doing so. Teaching young children how to speak a second language is good for their minds,

Since linguist and educator Helen Doron pioneered her groundbreaking methodology for teaching English to very young children, children around the world have benefitted from learning a second language the same way they learn their mother tongue. A recent study commissioned by the

Greater grasp of one’s first language including a bigger, richer vocabulary Most of the time we use our first language with little thought to grammatical rules or constructions. This is perfectly natural, but the experience of learning a new language can bring

Although the benefits of teaching children a second or even third language have been supported in the media for several years, I have noticed that lately there have been a number of articles and studies substantiating starting even earlier—even before the baby

  Newborn babies start learning language in the womb—and are born with what you might call accents, a new study of crying babies says. That fetuses hear and become accustomed to language is nothing new. Several studies have shown that, when exposed to

Being bilingual means having total control of two languages. The benefits of bilingualism extend to social, as well as professional life. There are a number of languages spoken throughout the world. Every person knows at least one language which he/she learns to speak and then write