Cultivating a bilingual baby is the dream of many parents.
However, parents often think that learning English for their babies is a matter that requires huge cost. For example, sending their children to international schools with high tuition fees and hiring one-on-one foreign teachers for their children, [high cost] makes parents flinch from this.
In fact, many children go to bilingual kindergartens and still refuse to speak English when they go home. This is because they ignore that the most important thing for the baby’s English enlightenment is actually the infiltration of the family environment.
However, most parents are at a loss for English enlightenment, because they have not made a good plan for enlightenment, thus missing the golden period for their babies to learn English.
First, is it too early to do English enlightenment now?
No. In fact, the earlier the enlightenment, the better the effect.
Patricia K. Kuhl, an expert on children’s language development, found that infants were geniuses in language before the age of 7, and then their language system showed a downward trend.
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Among them, in the learning of the second language, oral English is most influenced by age.
Infants and young children are born to distinguish multilingual pronunciation, but their ability to distinguish sounds will gradually decline during 6-12 months. After the age of 12, the effect of studying spoken English hard is not as good as when they were young.
The earlier you come into contact with a second foreign language, the stronger your ability to distinguish sounds and the greater your promotion to pronunciation standards.
Therefore, in order to cultivate a bilingual baby who can speak authentic English, parents must seize the golden period of English enlightenment, provide an infiltrative English environment as soon as possible, and improve the possibility of children learning English well in the future.
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In the meantime, it is necessary to
Many parents may be worried when they see this place. They hate that they have not started English enlightenment from the moment their children are born.
Parents also need not worry too much. As long as children are no later than 3 years old, it is still possible for children to acquire a second language close to their mother tongue.
Before the age of 3, the enlightenment to the baby is more internal effect. After the age of 3, the child has meta-language awareness and then enlightens, and the externalization effect will be more obvious.
It is more important for parents to prepare for the early stage and master the correct enlightenment knowledge and methodology than to input English to their children without a goal.
Second, my English is not good, can I teach my children well?
Many parents worry that their English level is insufficient or their pronunciation is not standard, and want to send their babies to English early education institutions.
However, learning English is a gradual accumulation process, and it is far from enough to rely on a few classes in early childhood education institutions. Only by allowing children to be exposed to the English environment for a long time and use English for daily communication can significant learning effects be seen.
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Parents’ English is not good, but as long as they use the right methods and foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, the baby can still speak fluent English.
For example, if the mother’s English is not good, she will not correct the baby’s mistakes repeatedly. The child is relaxed in front of the mother, and the efficiency of input language is naturally high. The mother’s pronunciation is not standard. The baby can listen to a large number of English children’s songs and watch a large number of original cartoons, thus correcting the pronunciation by himself.
The most important thing in English enlightenment is not parents’ excellent English level, but learning and growing up together with their children. Parents should be their children’s English sparring partners, not their children’s English teachers.
Three, how to avoid the baby’s resistance?
Before, a mother asked us for help and said that the baby started English enlightenment from the age of 2. She not only collected many resources such as children’s songs, picture books, cartoons and so on on the Internet, but also consulted many methods of English enlightenment.
The mother practiced the enlightenment method of “grinding ears” and played English nursery rhymes in various scenes such as the baby getting up, sleeping, playing and eating.
Now that the baby is 4 years old, instead of developing in the expected direction, she is beginning to resist English a little. If she has a choice, she would prefer to watch Chinese picture books and cartoons.
In the meantime, it is necessary to
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Improper enlightenment methods will damage children’s interest in English and have the opposite effect.
So how can parents enlighten their babies so that they can enjoy learning English?
1. Let children contact English on the basis of understanding and understanding. If you don’t understand, watching more English cartoons and listening to more English nursery rhymes will be futile.
2. Parents should form the habit of speaking English to their children and integrate English into their lives so that children will not feel that learning English is a kind of pressure.
3. Add more parent-child interaction when learning English. Teacher Matthew, founder of [Playing English with Bear], recommended three ways for parents to learn English: children’s songs, games and picture books.
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In the meantime, it is necessary to
When learning children’s songs with your baby, you can cooperate with doll props or body movements. In the process of reading picture books together, parents and children can communicate truly. The game is highly interactive and entertaining.
However, there are still many mothers who play many English nursery rhymes but only know how to play them circularly. I bought a lot of classic picture books, but I only read them stiffly.
These mothers dare not teach, do not know how to teach, and worry that they have no time to teach.
In order to solve these puzzles of mothers, Clove Mother joined forces with the [Bear English] team to produce and launch the “English Enlightenment Class”.
The keynote speaker, Mr. Matthew, is one of the most professional teachers of VIPKID, a children’s English education brand. He once led a professional team composed of Chinese and American English teaching giants and helped 200W Chinese families to carry out language enlightenment.
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In addition to the theoretical explanation given by teacher Matthew, an expert in children’s English teaching, there are also three teachers Luna, Yoyo and Mona who respectively give practical explanations on their best fields, and there is also a professional foreign teacher who teaches several first-line star children at the same time.
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The course includes 6 audio and 20 videos, leading parents to learn English in the easiest way from children’s songs, games and picture books.
Through the course, you will get
Part 01 6 Audio Lessons
Avoid Baby’s Mistakes in Learning English,
Reasonable Implementation of English Enlightenment Plan
Outline 1
Part 02 23 Extensive Video
Outline 234
Part 03 3 QA sessions
Mr. Matthew will answer questions live three times after the course goes online,
Focus on answering the baby’s English enlightenment questions that everyone is most concerned about.
Part 04 5 Necessary List of Baby English Enlightenment
List Combination Diagram
Children’s songs, games, picture books,
Necessary List of Baby English Enlightenment,
Easily save and view at any time
Part 05 30-day Community Clock-in, Teacher’s Professional Comments
The course is accompanied by 26 task cards.
Is it right for a mother to take her children to read picture books like this?
Mr. Matthew taught hand in hand
Part 06 Picture Book < < Language Sense Enlightenment Joy English Nursery Rhymes > > Ultra-low Group Purchase Price
Six Highlights of Curriculum
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Professional team, top-level teaching
Bear English is a team hatched by VIPKID, the top children’s English education brand in China.
This course not only has teachers Matthew, an expert in children’s English teaching, to give theoretical explanations, but also three teachers to give practical explanations on their best fields, and two professional foreign teachers.
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Audio + video, not afraid to learn
Foreign teachers read aloud, the most standard pronunciation, teach the baby to speak the most authentic English. Parents no longer have to worry about their nonstandard pronunciation affecting their baby’s English learning.
Many parents bought classic picture books, but they still can’t tell stories well and don’t know how to interact with their children. This time we will use video to teach parents how to use picture books.
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Respect Children’s Development and Set up Courses Scientifically
The course chooses the teaching form of children’s songs, games and picture books, which is in line with children’s nature of playing. Combining teaching with fun, let the baby learn while playing.
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High cost performance, easy to save tens of thousands of yuan of tuition
The course consists of 29 sessions, with an average cost of only 3 yuan per session. Parents can easily save tens of thousands of dollars in the cost of enrolling in classes, and there is no trouble of transportation.
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Highly interactive, parents and babies grow up together,
The curriculum has many parent-child companionship links, which can enhance the emotional link between parents and children.
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Learn English easily for 10 minutes every day.
Worried about busy work and no time to study? Each video takes only 10 minutes.
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