What do language, penmanship and sitting still have in common? They are all essential life skills that are practiced from an early age in Finnish early childhood education. At Daycare Ågeli, Moomin Language School brings English into the daily...
Children learn languages more easily than adults; this is considered common knowledge these days, and it’s one of the cornerstones of our passion and work here at Moomin Language School. However, many questions still remain: why is it so? When...
There is a common belief that if you don’t use a language, you will forget it. However, new evidence suggests that a language can stay with us until adulthood, even if we haven’t heard it since our birth. A study published in the Royal...
Mother tongue has an important impact on our identity. It helps us develop ourselves and influences our understanding of ourselves later in life. Mother tongue is our first language and we can hear it and follow it already before we are born...
Professor Jim Cummins from the University of Toronto has written about the importance of mother tongue. Why is it so important that parents speak their own mother tongue to their children? According to Cummins, research has clearly shown...
Children have a great ability to learn new skills, they are curious and they have a natural desire to learn new things. When learning is child-centric and motivating, children learn new skills easily. Same goes for language learning. Children can...
