Family tendencies: why you should raise a bilingual child

If you don't want to waste teachers' time in the future you have to start teaching a foreign language to your child as soon as you put their first diaper on — before the age of 5 children absorb information just like sponges and remember it for the rest of their lives. The main thing is to create the necessary "language environment", so that children do not have to cram boring grammatical rules of foreign speech. Let's find out what needs to be done.

Bilingual children since early years speak two languages equally well. There are also cases when children speak three or even four languages at the same time — but these are some parenting professionals cases. It is best to create the right "language environment" right at your house by a native nanny. Find your Mary Poppins in the international recruitment Agency English Nanny - foreign nannies will teach English, French and Chinese languages to your children.

And you need to start before your child turns 9 years old — after this age, the gift of bilingualism disappears and only cramming will help. Here's what Valentin Grogol, director of the Russian and Ukrainian offices of the international company English Nanny, which has been finding best nannies for over thirty years, says — "the later, the worse. Preferably, the specialist is to start working with the child from the age of one. Then, by the age of three, the child will be able to speak English correctly and without an accent." Recently, there has been such a tendency that more and more English Nanny clients are targeting Chinese. "In this case, our company is looking for not just Chinese women, but Chinese women who have received a prestigious education in London and speak the Beijing dialect — Mandarin" - says Valentin.

Such early training does not mean that the baby will be chained to the desk having to learn the phrase carved in the memory of each student "London is the capital of Great Britain". For babies, communication in a foreign language is more of a game than serious training and hard labor. So help your child prepare for the competition for a place at Oxford or Harvard. And if these arguments are not enough, then here is another fact in favor of investing in the future — recently, Canadian scientists have proved that people who speak two languages since childhood way slower lose their mental abilities when they get old.

Foreign governesses are divided by age groups - some are engaged with children from primary school, others can help children prepare for a University. So when the child is older and preparing to enter a foreign University, a governess will help him or her. To choose the "right" school, College, or University that suits your child, take preliminary English and maths tests, and you will get 5 educational institutions suiting your requirements. Yes, and do not be afraid of sleepless nights with textbooks — the nanny is not only a teacher, but also a mentor who takes care of proper nutrition and daily routine.