Speaking two languages offers our brain the possibility of thinking in different ways. Whatever the languages are, knowing more than one obliges the memory to build a larger archive, richer than when only one is spoken. The idioms and habits related to the different languages are expressions of different ways of being and different expressions of the self: knowing more than one language offers different possibilities of expression. When you live abroad you run the risk of losing the habits of the country of origin, among these there is also the language. Often children speak the language they speak at school and it is easy to make English the language of the family, even if one of the spouses is Italian.
This is why the "Italian play group" was born, open to all children from three to five years old who have Italian father or mother. It is an informal moment managed on a voluntary basis organized by an Italian teacher but supported by all the participating families. There are four children and we meet every week at the home of one of the participants.
he activities and games are mainly in the garden and are the same activities
and games of the Italian kindergarten.
We sing songs, we play with recycled materials, we listen to stories,
we draw and we have snacks together:
everything is done always speaking in Italian.
