“Jules-Anton was just 3 when we arrived in New York from Marseilles. At that time, he never had the chance to hear a single English word but his French was really good,” tells his mom Cathy.  “He discovered English at school in the neighborhood Day Care in Astoria. The beginning was tough for him. He developed aggressive behaviors towards his buddies because he didn’t know how to communicate with them.  After three months everything was fine though and now he’s not only able to understand his friends but he is …

Anne-Gaëlle, now 6, was born in France, but she arrived in New York City when she was just 3 months old. Like any American kid, she goes to Kindergarten in a Brooklyn public school and speaks
100% English there. But Anne-Gaëlle has an extra-skill: she speaks French at home with parents and siblings, Louis-Etienne, 4, and Jeanne-Marie, 2. “It is important for us to keep the French language at home, says her mom Benedicte. “As English is not my mother tongue, I think it’s more natural to speak French with my …

After only one year spent in the big city, Romain, 3 years old, knows how to interact with the other kids at his daycare. From shy toddler to confident speaker, there is just one step that Romain took without apprehension! “At the beginning, we had taught him how to say the basic words in English, like ‘to go to the bathroom,’” his mom Severine recalls. Indeed kids this age will absorb a language in a very short time. Romain is no exception. Like the other bilingual children, he’s able to …