This is an interesting and new story about piece of research demonstrating that babies that heard two languages spoken regularly during pregancy (i.e. spoken by their bilingual mothers) listened with more interest to both languages than those that heard only one of the languages. The babies were also able to tell the difference between the two languages very soon after birth.

Science Daily article about bilingual babies published on February 10th 2010

Our next Second Stage workshop will be held at the Limes on 6th of March 2010

What is Multilingual Month?

Multilingual Month was first proposed in 1998 as a national annual event to be celebrated in schools on a par with the already established Black History Month in October.  It aims to promote a range of activities across the curriculum in schools which explicitly value the cultural and linguistic heritage of their pupils and which promote language learning and anti-racist and anti discriminatory attitudes.