I am Malaiysia chinese and my country is full of different language. like malay, english, mandarin, Cantonese, hokkian, india and so on. I have learn the Korean language and Deutsch Language. And I am ok with Deutsch Language as similar sound with Malay language with the formula language Grammar. hahaha! funny! But in my home, I used to talk English to my toddler and her grandmother talk cartonese, her father talk cartornese and mandarin. end up my toddle know a lot of language. I practice use flash card before and now my toddler is getting to 3 years old I am going to work on lap book together with her.
For flash card... I teach english and Deutsh language. She knows how to speak english now ... not the sentense by word by word. I teach her from the beginning of her procession. like her bady part. her clothes... her bedroom ... her stationay... her toys... whatever can be seen. I think this is the most suitable to teach and when she wants shw will point to the shoes and tell you - " shoes" and you will see... how funny you are enjoying.
Using the flash card... it is better using the picture before the flash card so that they know what is that... but sometime you may find they love to see picture then words.. this is ok because mainly is affected by the right brain... ( which sides ...right or left brain... i know one sides of brain love picture and have a good memory and the this sides of brain will stop active from 3 years old start... oh ya ! it is right brain ... so ... you need to give her space to learn piano let her active back the right brain if you can ) .
For the flash card you could teach as simple by showing but when it is growing up to four - five years old or even sometime after you will find she will get negative impact on the flash car... be bored to this method.. so i have written a blog how to teach your toddler step by step as i used it now a day to share with you all... refer to my blog -
http://littlemommy2012.blogspot.com/for for the foreign language i give up for temporary as I need to build the foundation on the international language first.. chinese and english language. whereas the foreign lauguage will continue to teach after 3 years old.
I have my own schedule posted. for reference please go to my blog.
http://littlemommy2012.blogspot.com/