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Little English is a digital platform packed full of original educational songs and videos designed to help young children from 1-8 years develop their English Language skills. Our YouTube channel is super popular for families. We have lots of new and exciting content coming soon, subscribe to be the first to see! We are very lucky that Jessica Forrest comes into nursery each week to deliver the fun in person!

www.youtube.com/@littleenglishtv

About BilinguaSing 

Founded in 2013 by former language teacher Ellie Baker, BilinguaSing is the UK’s only carefully-crafted music-led programme for teaching languages to babies and children from birth to 11 years. 

Because children learn best when they don’t realise that they’re learning, our multi-award winning French, Spanish, German and Italian classes combine music with language learning in a way that’s fun!

BilinguaSing is also a fully holistic, multi-sensory experience, which means that we always include lots of sensory play to further boost their brain development and learning. 

Baby signing is about good communication between you and your baby. It’s an excellent way to communicate “two-way“. From around 6 months old, babies can understand you and they are having plenty of thoughts of their own BUT they cannot tell you what those thoughts are and that is frustrating!

The good news is your baby is developing their hand co-ordination and can learn many signs to communicate their message to you. Signing bridges the ‘I know what I want but can’t say it yet’ gap. In short, it gives your child a temporary tool for the job until speech comes along and this is a great relief for a frustrated baby and frazzled parents!

The signs can easily be fitted in your normal routine. There is no need to set separate time aside to teach your child. They will pick up the signs as you sign and speak to them. Signing babies can lead conversations and introduce topics to ‘talk’ about. They can communicate and be satisfied before crying is even a possibility.

You get an early insight into their thoughts and because there is more interaction and understanding, the bond between you strengthens. As your child starts to speak more they will sign less, but the benefits of signing with your baby continue long after the baby years – signing babies have been shown to go on to speak earlier, have wider vocabularies and even higher IQ’s than non-signing babies in general