BOCA BETH: One Song at a Time

I love, love, love the studies that keep coming out about becoming bilingual, the benefits of learning a second language early in life, the wonderful advantages of having fluency in more than one language and on and on and on!!!

Recently published, and yet not conclusive by any means, is a cool study done about the patches of brain tissue that exhibit neuronal bustle in people who learned a 2nd language early in their childhood and people who learned their 2nd language after their childhood. 

Joy Hirsch of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and her colleagues found that early learners rely on the same critical patch of brain tissue when speaking either their native language or the new language - it is in the Broca’s area.  While those later life language learners experienced neuronal activity in another segment of the Broca’s area.

Again - not conclusive - but interesting enough to note that the sensitivity reflected in the Broca’s area with exposure to languages during the early years (birth - five) is evident; thus clarifying why learning languages comes so much more easily in the early years of life!

So……selling our first CD to maternity shops for pregnant moms to listen to while pregnant seems right on target!

So…..offering our CDs and DVDs to use in preschools, in family child care situations and with new parents who shop on line with our cool web site is the right thing to do!

So…..training early childhood educators on how to bring second language fun into every preschool classroom possible even when they do not speak that new language themselves is a worthwhile thing to do!

Can I tell you how very happy my husband is (the one who continues to fund my passion for second language learning among the young children of today via our home equity line of credit!!!!!) every time one of these new reports help justify our product creation and production?!?!?!?!?! 

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth