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amjup
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2009 19:32
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If you want your child to be trilingual at the age of three we are opening a new trilingual day-care in Warsaw for kids 1-3 years old. Curriculum in Spanish, Polish and English. For more information please write to amjup2000@yahoo.com or visit our blog at www.warsawtrilingualday-care.blog.net
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Anonymous
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2009 21:01
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hi there, the link doesn't work
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Anonymous
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2009 00:32
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we will need 2 more languages Portuguese and Russian :)
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kika
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2009 00:44
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yes and Japanese and French
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amjup
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2009 23:11
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That's going to be the next step then:)
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srg
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2009 23:04
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What do you mean by "trilingual"? Are there going to be 3 babysitters each speaking different language with babies? They will go nuts!
Alsaw, I wonder, what could be the "Curriculum" for 1-3 years old?..
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Anonymous
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# Posted: 27 Jan 2009 09:23
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Hello,
Thank you for your post. A child learns the language through the contact with it. It doesn't realise that this is a foreign language. Children from mixed couples say that they speak "like their mom",'like their dad" when they refer to two languages spoken with their parents. This is why each group in my day-care have 3 persons each speaking a different language with the children. Children have very few chances to go nuts as you say because after two/three months they know perfectly who speaks what language and in what kind of activities. They understand the language and some of them start speaking it(this is very individual-usually girls start faster).
The "curriculum" for 1-3 years old are activities of play/music/exercices adopted to their age that aim the development of the children as well as the capacities to speak three languages.This is the moment when children learn the most and the fastest contrary to what has been thought about their development at such early stage for years.
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srg
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# Posted: 28 Jan 2009 22:10
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Hi there!
No boubt babies cope with multilingual environment. But in which language guardians are going to communicate between themselves? I'd guess with babies being very clever, as soon as they realize all of adults in the room use the same language to communicate (say polish), they will alsaw switch to the same language. Unless, of course, each adult will only speak\understand 1 language, and babies will not have a choice. Anyway, this is only my speculation :)
The social experiment sounds interesting. Also, if I am not mistaken there is lack of quality not-only-polish-laguage daycare for 1-3 y.o. in Warsaw, especially in some parts (like lots in ursynów but few in centrum), so your enterprise should be a success. (Still, please, check if the link in the first message does works.) Cheers.
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amjup
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# Posted: 2 Feb 2009 09:32
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Thank you for all your comments. I do really appreciate. I specialized in bilingual children and all the issues you mention are REAL questions that all the linguists ask. We solved them out in the following way:
-within the day teachers talk to the kids in their native language ONLY. They provide them individual care so the three of them have no chance to speak to the baby at the same moment in three languages. As you say if teachers speak among them in one language babies will soon try to switch to the same language. And at that moment you have to be very consequent and play "deaf" as the linguist say-you don't react until the child tells you the message in the required language.It works and was proved by scientists. I also experienced that in my life-I am a mom and my child speaks three languages at the age of 8 and switches easily from one to another.
-each day includes 4 hours of activities carried out for all the children in one language ONLY(2 hours in one language in the morning and 2 hours in the other language in the afternoon). While one teacher talks to all the kids in one language other two help the teacher in practical issues like changing diapers, bringing the child back to the class room etc.In the afternoon languages swap.
Day cares in Warsaw vary as you say. I've visited lots of them recently and must say that some of them are fine but there is a portion of "parking lots"-you leave your kid at 9 and pick it up at 5-just like your car. That's pure waste of time, money and especially child's potential. While I was recruiting I also realised that in general potential teachers-especially the ones who worked in the public kindergardens and day-cares don't believe that a child has unlimited capacities and think that as soon as he/she is kept clean everything's fine. It's scary.
We already have a www page so if you are interested in the idea please refer to it
www.dommaluchatrzyjezyki.home.pl
Again thanks a lot for all your comments.
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