My name is Monika. I am from Slovak Republic and I have 1,5 year old son.
When my son was about six month old I started to interest myself in early education (EE).
I belive that EE concept is revolutionary and has a strong potential for bringing the new future to our children.
I was happy to find BK forum, as suddenly, I felt not as isolated as before. I would like to thank to this web site creators and to all the forum members for the valuable information about EE. I am leaving behind the position of a „quiet observer“ and want to become an active member of the forum.
Thanks for the excellent LR and LM software! My son really loves it – despite of the fact that english is not his first language! We use it as a second language learning tool and it seems to work!
Hi Monika !
I would like to buy the LR and LM for my 10 month old baby.Her mother tongue is german.
I would like to use it as a second language tool.
I do not know, how to use the whole LR and LM program with her (teach the phonemes.)
How do you do it? Thanks for your answer!
I am from Modra, western Slovakia, but at the moment our family is based in Czech republic /my husband´s base/. As a lot of my friends and family live in Modra, we are in Slovakia quite often. Simon is half-slovak and I would like him to be able to speak slovak and to have his friends in Slovakia too. :yes:
Regarding our daily routine: Å imon wakes me up around 6:30 a.m. and we start to read english books. He is persisting to push books into my face until I wake up and meet his wishes :). He wouldn´t mind me to read him forever, but approx. after cca 30 min I need to stop and move on with some house work. After brekfast we usually go for a walk. If we stay inside, we listen to english songs on CD´s while playing, cooking, or house-working. CD songs are also ultimate for every car journey: each time he sees our car he repeats : “ABC´s , ABC´s …” until he gets it. If Simon is receptive, we go for LR sessions before the lunch, if not, we leave it for afternoon. His 30 min english DVD session I usually place between 5-6 p.m., before bath time and dinner. It is always hard to stop it, he wants it more and more… each time he will cry… Before I put him to bed we have to repeat his favourite night books and lullabies several times. He likes me to repeat passages from books /we know them by heart/, he loves to complete words in the sentences.
We started with books in the age approx 6-7 months, videos around 10 months and LR ater he was 1 year old /but more consistently during last three months/. Recently we have started Helen Doron english course once weekly as well.
During the day, I speak to him sometimes slovak and sometimes english /so I am not following the rule of “one person = one language” which is definitely not ideal… I am a bit worry about the result…hopefully we will not end up with some terrible language mixture
Where ary you from and what your daily routine looks like?
It would be nice to meet you one day.
Monika
Hi Monika, sorry it took a bit long to reply. I come from Martin. I have a 1 year old baby girl Alexandra. She loves LM/LR. Appart of that we go swimming twice a week. Currently we are slowly moving to continents-I find really inspiring a video here on brillkids forum. I speak with my baby in english 80%,slovak 20% since she was 8 months. She speaks slovak and english. She can say about 15 words.
My daily routine isn’t really a routine :))
But after breakfast we do a quick session of LR and LM to start with. At lunch I play YBCR for her just to listen and she responds well, she started clapping her hands when she hears it :))
In the afternoon I let her watch Noodlebug for 5 min.
We watch couple of times a bit of Little Einstein but yesterday she almost cry,not sure why so I won’t let her watch it.
We have done coloures and letters- you can see the video here
how and when did you add forein languages?
I don’t speak spanish myself.I do have spanish friends so they could be of help if I need any. I chose to teach her spanish becouse it’s third most common language in the world. I haven’t checked how many files are available here on brillkids forum in spanish yet.
since she was born, i speak to her in mandarin, hubby speaks to her in english and my mother in law speaks to her in cantonese. she watches the Little PIM spanish dvd. i want to bring her to spanish playgroup when time permits, or get private spanish tuition when she turns 3, and also get her spanish penpal…
Alexandra is clever girl! She reacts beautifuly! Good job! Glad to see her! I will upload some records with Simon too.
We have not started with french yet. I have chosen french, because hope I might be able to find some native speaker to speak to Simon. There are some french comp. and french family living in Pisek and also french college too - so, sort of future perspective… Simon has also bilingual english-french step cousins, so this is another good reason. If I had a chance to find native spanish here, I would go for spanish as well. There are many beautiful spanish teaching materials on internet!
I plane to start with french DVD´s when Simon is about two years old. At the moment we have stopped all DVD´s, as he become too dependent on TV, and his tantrums got worse… I am a bit worry about overloading him with too much TV…
(I was browsing web to find out why Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby comp. had to stop to adverise some of their products as educative. I have find out that american and australian paediatric board do not recommend watching any kind of TV programs for children under 2 years… :-(… so I have got a bit scared off… but I already plan restarting a bit of TV - recently impressed with sign language, I might let him watch baby signing time 15 min daily we will see …
We plane to come to Slovakia in november.
It would be definitely good to keep in touch :yes:
Monika
Thank you for link:) I’m new here so I’ve notice polish topics yet :clown:
Yeah, I’ve teached my daughter early reading but she is 7 now …
see you soon,
