Anyone teaching child French but not speak it?

[Ayesha Nicole]

Dear JPimsleurLevine,

Welcome!  We are honored to have you here!  I am eagerly awaiting the Arabic version of LittlePim and hope that you are using Modern Standard Arabic in the translation, or will it be in a regional dialect?  My girls will enjoy it either way.

Please do share some of your father's teaching methods with us, because we are interested in language acquisition for children and adults!

Respectfully,
Ayesha

[Nikolett]

Welcome JPimsleurLevine and thanks for the discount. I am sure a lot of moms will use it!  Hope you find useful info for your little ones on this site   

[luckylucy]

Hi again JPimsleur,

I just wondered if you had any thoughts on the most recent thread on this board about softly playing a foreign language CD as baby is falling asleep.  Supposedly they retain a lot of the language when hearing it in a such a relaxed state.  Have you heard of this?  I think it's called sleep talking or sleep teaching.  Here is the link to the thread:

http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-signing-speaking-foreign-languages/anyone-play-foreign-language-cd-while-baby-sleeps/msg21926/?topicseen

Here is another link to a much more in depth conversation about it that was had on this website (they quote some studies):

http://forum.brillkids.com/general-discussion-b5/benefits-of-sleep-talking/msg20473/#msg20473

Thanks!
Lucy

[JPimsleurLevine]

Thanks for the welcomes...
This seems like a great, smart community of informed moms, and i am proud to be in here among you!
As for the CD playing -- my son has fallen asleep to French music for years, but I do not know enough about the science to comment on its effects on learning. I did, however, send the post about it to my scientific advisor (the very brilliant Dr. April Benasich, Director of the Infancy Studies Lab at Rutgers) and will let you know what she says when she gets back to me.
I always say 'more is more' when it comes to foreign language exposure, so the nighttime lessons can only be good.
Arabic is one of our next slated languages, by the way!
take care and enjoy your little ones. Vos petits, that is.
 

[GloriaD]

Hello JPimsleurLevine,  Glad to have you here!!!

Thanks a million for offering to do some research on our behalf - it is much appreciated - I will then have the honor of giving you... your first Karma!!!  for the good intentions !!   

More to come I am sure.


Thanks for your generosity with your time !  much appreciated.

Gloria

ps: I am using currently the Pimsleur Chinese Mandarin at night time for my daughter I just started 3 days ago - so as you can imagine I am extremely interested in hearing from your scientific advisor.

[mtb999]

Hi JPimsleurLevine,
Are there any plans to expand the series beyond the 3 DVDs currently available?  They look like a fantastic starting point to introduce a second language for your baby/child.  I am looking forward to using the Chinese version for my baby when he/she is born.

[JPimsleurLevine]

It's so great to read about other parents who are teaching their kids foreign languages! I have been teaching my son French since he was about 6 months old - he is now four and speaks quite well. He was my inspiration for creating the Little Pim DVD series (www.LittlePim.com). I tried Muzzy but found it was better suited to older kids (5+) than young ones. Now I have a 13-month old who is learning French with Little Pim and we are having a lot of fun exploring French words together. Yesterday I took an apple, banana and strawberry and put them on the table and we were picking the right one when i said "Fraise", "Banane" or "Pomme" - he got it! Well, with a little help from his big brother.
My father, Dr. Paul Pimsleur, created his method for adults using the principles of total immersion, positive reinforcement and "graduated interval recall" (bringing back vocab words repeatedly, at just the right intervals, before you forget them). I used some of these same principles in creating the Little Pim series, which is total immersion and has a lot of repetition and positive reinforcement. Plus it's super fun for young children.
Whatever you decide to do for foreign language exposure, I always recommend you try to be consistent. If you are going to play French or Spanish music, try to put it on a few times a week. Or show your kids language DVDs at a certain time each day or several times a week. Good luck and let me know if i can answer any questions about language teaching to young children.

[patreiche]

Wow it so wonderful to hear from the creator of LittlePIM. I am thinking of purchasing it. Any chance you can talk to KL and offer us a discount? I just read the post about the discount and gave you Karma.

[KL]

Any chance you can talk to KL and offer us a discount?

Watch this space...

[JudyMendes]

Dear Lucy, I teach my baby French as well - I do not speak it. (you dont have to)  I use the French bits from LR  very good material, audio, french music and also the cd-Rooms from Doman. They have the same information -BITS-  in each cd-room in 5 languages one of those French.  You can totally rely in the accuracy and good pronounciation of the Institutes (Doman) materials.

here is the link :
http://www.gentlerevolution.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=G&Category_Code=CDR

Here is a sample: taken from their website.

Our Picture Dictionary CD-ROMs make it fun and easy for your child to learn single words and images in five languages with correct accents. Each of our ten volumes contains 150 colorful images, and large-print vocabulary words spoken by a native speaker in English, Japanese, French, Spanish, and Italian. Each volume is completely interchangeable. You can begin your program with any volume and then move on to any other volume. You can show your child either the words or the pictures or both!
Volume I categories include:

Countries of the World

National Flags
Colors
Birds
Fruit
Musical Instruments
Mammals
Flowers & Blossoms
Fish of the Sea
Musical Symbols
Chemical Elements
Constellations
Human Skeletal System
Mathematical Symbols
Reptiles


Good Luck !!

Gloria

Hi Gloria
Wanted to know since your purchased the DOMAN Picture dictionaries, do you have option to choose between lanugages or do have buy seperate DVDs for a different lanugage

[patience]

I was looking into purchasing the set and was told that you have the option to choose which language you want to hear....

[luckymommy1307]

1 cd - rom contain 5 languages.

[Nikita]

I am interested in Little Pim, but buying from Australia is very expensive with the exchange rate so pitiful as it is at the moment.  Do you have an Australian supplier? And let me know when the discount coupon takes effect.... I dont speak french but want bub to learn french, particularly as I think it's the easiest language to learn (I did learn some french growing up, but arent fluent by a long shot).

[Nikita]

I found your coupon code, in this post, but wonder why you dont put it in the forum shop??? You'd have more exposure, and people would find it easily... some people may not read this thread at all.

[nhockaday]

JPL--Are your father's adult language CDs appropriate for a child to listen to? I am interested in Little Pim, but I would also like my son to listen to language CDs while he's coloring or playing. Is there anything else you recommend, maybe a Spanish CD with just Spanish dialect?

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