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Petit Sounds

A journey into bilingual parenting, how language grows inside our babies, and how kids can grow up learning one, two, or many languages.Hosted by parents Elaine and Héctor, a biology teacher and a lan... Read more

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Chapter Eight: Music and Language

Chapter Eight: Music and Language

Around 90% of the world’s languages are tonal, meaning that unlike English, Spanish, or German, tone patterns are used t... Read more

7 Apr 2022

16mins

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Chapter Seven: How to help bilingual and multilingual children in their language journey

Chapter Seven: How to help bilingual and multilingual children in their language journey

In this episode, Héctor and Elaine explore some of the questions you might want to consider when raising a child in a bi... Read more

1 Mar 2022

16mins

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Chapter Six: How babies and children learn words

Chapter Six: How babies and children learn words

In this episode, Héctor and Elaine explore nouns, how babies learn to identify them before being able to pronounce them,... Read more

1 Feb 2022

18mins

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Chapter Five: The good, the bad and the false of bilingualism

Chapter Five: The good, the bad and the false of bilingualism

In this episode, Héctor and Elaine explore the myths, advantages, and potential disadvantages around being bilingual or ... Read more

1 Jan 2022

35mins

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Chapter Four: On syntax and how children put words together

Chapter Four: On syntax and how children put words together

It might not take long for your baby to go from speaking their first words to combining them, but the way they do so is ... Read more

1 Dec 2021

22mins

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Chapter Three: Language milestones and first words

Chapter Three: Language milestones and first words

In their previous episode, Elaine and Hector discussed language during pregnancy. Now they look at how babies understand... Read more

1 Nov 2021

21mins

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Chapter Two: Language during pregnancy

Chapter Two: Language during pregnancy

Elaine and Hector take questions from the listeners about second-language adoption and raising a child in a language tha... Read more

30 Sep 2021

23mins

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Chapter One: The Language Café

Chapter One: The Language Café

Meet Elaine. She was born in the Dominican Republic, speaks German, but wanted to practise Spanish. On a trip to Mexico ... Read more

31 Aug 2021

15mins

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Introducing Petit Sounds, the multilingual parenting podcast

Introducing Petit Sounds, the multilingual parenting podcast

Hallo, Hola, Hello! Welcome to Petit Sounds, a podcast about multilingual parenting, with your hosts Elaine and Héctor. ... Read more

7 Jul 2021

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