English for the Little Ones and the Loving Parents

Many years passed since the idea to write a book teaching English to kids and

parents came to my mind and now I want to share it with you.

I started my career as a teacher at school, teaching English to children in a secondary

school and found out, that it was too late to start teaching a foreign language to the

kids of age 11-12 years old. The linguistic ability to grasp languages at this age was

declining and we, as teachers, were simply wasting our efforts: it was hard for the

children to master a new language and it was hard for the teacher to make them learn

it.The learning process became painful and in most cases unsuccessful.

The natural way out of this precarious situation was to start teaching English as

early as possible, when kids can start learning with no effort, when new words are

remembered in no time and speech in a foreign language comes as easy as the mother

language.

So I started experimenting with the kid’s age at which learning a foreign language

can be done most easy and in a favorable way. My approach was different from just

developing the bilingual kids. When developing a bilingual child one should speak

with a child in both languages. Usually two parents can do this effortlessly by speaking

with a child in two languages simultaneously and then a child can speak both languages.

But who in my country at this time, the former USSR, could speak English at home to

a child?