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UK based charities and organisations :
Advisory Centre for Education - Independent registered charity, which offers information about state education in England and Wales for parents of school age children.
Baby Centre - Another discussion board to share thoughts, challenges and concerns with other multi-language families
BBC Shop - The BBC has been producing innovative language courses and programs for over 75 years.
Bilingual Family Newsletter - The newsletter publishes short informative articles on current thoughts on language learning, bilingualism, biculturalism, mother tongue, schools, etc.
Bilingual Supplies for Children - Information and recommendations for parents and teachers.
Community Languages Network - Support the multilingual diversity that exists within schools throughout the UK.
eal-bilingual Forum - Forum for discussion to promote the development of ideas and practic for teachers of English as an additional language, specialist classroom assistants, and others involved in teaching and supporting pupils from ethnic and linguistic minority backgrounds.
ChildcareLink - For National and Local Childcare information.
CILT - the National Centre for Languages.
Ell-Forum - The Early Language Learning e-mail forum (ell-forum) aims to encourage and facilitate exchange of ideas, discussion of issues, professional updating and peer support for and between those involved or interested in early language teaching and learning.
Families online - Website for Families magazines in the UK.
JISCmail - The National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCmail', is one of a number of JANET services to benefit learning, teaching and research communities. This link leads to a section about Language & Cultural Studies.
Handbag - 'Bringing up bilingual babies'
by Marialuisa Taddia
Languages Online - A website run by an English school which provides an interactive format through which pupils can practise a language.
LCF - 'With over 5,000 centres in the UK, LCF Clubs promotes languages through school clubs and supplying teachers and resources to schools.
Learn Direct - Search through around 936468 courses throughout the UK. You can choose where you wish to learn and the type of course you want to study.
National Advisory Centre for Early Language Learning - NACELL is a Department for Education and Skills Initiative to promote and develop the provision and quality of Modern Foreign Language learning in the Primary sector. A wide range of teaching material to download.
The National Childbirth Trust
- Childbirth and parenting charity. Information on pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and parenthood.
NCMA Children Come First - Quality assurance scheme for childminding networks.
The National Family and Parenting Institute - Works by researching the concerns of families and the support available, trialling new ways of providing support to families, bringing together organisations and knowledge, influencing policy makers, providing information direct to families, and running public campaigns.
The National Literacy Trust
- An independent charity dedicated to building a literate nation.
Overseas Trained Teacher Programme - Anyone wishing to work as a qualified teacher in England must have Qualified Techer Status (QTS). However if you have qualified overseasyou can work as an unqualified teacher for up to four years without QTS. Find out more.
Parents Centre - Information and support for parents on how to help with your child's learning, including advice on choosing a school and finding childcare.
Parent Line Plus - UK registered charity which offers support to anyone parenting a child.
Parent OnLine - For parents of a child of primary school age: information about education and leisure activities, news and online debates.
Primary Languages - The objective of the site is to provide support materials and documentation for anyone involved with primary languages teaching.
Sing and Sign - To learn baby signing.
Speak Easy - Lots and lots of links to all sorts of language related information. Well worth a visit.
Talking Point - Information about speech, language and communication difficulties in children. They have a range of information and resources for parents and carers of children and also for professionals.
Talk To Your Baby - A page about early bilingual communication with 'Parents' frequently asked questions' and 'Tips for parents to help children learn their home language and English'.
University of Birmingham School of Education - A database with plenty of very good documents regarding bilingualism in families
(link not always working...).
Usborne - Language books
Non-UK based charities and organisations:
Baby Talk - Essential vocabulary for children- it's limited but might be useful.
Bilingual/Bicultural Family Network BBFN - The main purpose of this American organisation is to help empower
families in raising their children multilingually and multiculturally by
providing them with a variety of useful resources, information and support. BBFN is developing bilingual books, games, activities and more which are fully customizable and downloadable! And don't miss their monthly online magazine, Multilingual Living,
packed with intelligent articles, essays and more!
Bilingual Babies - Web site providing extensive material on bilingualism from birth and on. It also includes Online Help, articles on speech delay, etc..
The Bilingual Families Web Page - This page is intended primarily as a place for bilingual parents to find information and resources to help them raise their children bilingually (last updated 18 February 1998).
Bilingual Families Connect - American wesbite where you can find tips and advice from other parents like you who are raising bilingual children. There is also a discussion forum.
Bilingual Parenting - This website's goal is to help parents raise their children bilingually.
A blog from a truly multilingual family - Find out the ups and downs of this family.
Enfants Bilingues - A wide variety of information about multlingualism (in French)
Expat Click - A website with lots of information for expatriate women, in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Expat Focus - A wide variety of information and forums for expats.
iLoveLanguages - Catalog of language-related Internet resources.
Kids Bilingual Network - International network of bilingual or multilingual families.
The Multilingual Children's Association - An american web-guide to raising multilingual children - expert advice and real world wisdom, parent discussions, tips, resource directory, articles and more.
NABE - An american organisation which is devoted to representing both English language learners and bilingual education professionals..
Resources for Bilingual Matters - Organizations for bilingual matters in various countries.
Mike's radio World - Listen live to over 3000 radio stations on your PC.
Fun Stuff : Animal Noises - The noises animals make around the world!!
Children's Songs - Songs and rhymes for children in your favorite language.
International
Collection of Tongue Twisters
Mama Lisa's World - Large collection of childrens songs and nursery rhymes from around the world.
Multilingual Songbook - Children's songs in 25 languages.
Songs for teaching - Use music to teach languages.
The Official World Cup Website - It can be accessed in 9 languages so there is plenty of scope to work on reading articles together!!
On-line bookshops :
Able Kids - Books, Games, Videos, CD-Roms and much more to help your child learn a second language.
Kids Like Me - a UK web-based company dedicated to providing inspirational multicultural, multilingual and inclusive books, toys and educational resources for children of all ages and backgrounds.
Language Land - A UK based online store selling foreign language
products for children (and a few for adults.) They offer resources such
as books, DVDs, interactive CD-ROMs and games in 22 different languages.
Language Lizard - An american based book retailer with dual-language products and multicultural children's Books, CDs and Posters in over 40 languages
The Language of... - Specialises in easy reading, contemporary novels and storybooks in a number of languages for both adults and children, all second-hand. While they only sell online, they would be happy - depending on the amount of interest and accessibility - to visit any language circles, clubs or societies to give them the opportunity to have a closer look at their books. They are also interested in buying books in any language, but they must be in excellent condition and must have been printed in the last 10 years.
Little Linguist - Specialises in foreign-language materials for children of all ages and abilities.
Mantra Lingua - A publisher of bilingual resources including interactive dictionaries for the young, books in over 33 languages, including the 2006 WOW! Award Winner - Little Red Hen and the Grains of Wheat - multilingual posters, friezes, games, interactive CD Roms, audio CDs.
Milet - An independent publisher of original and stylish books.
Multilingual Books - Supplies courses and materials to institutions and individuals in over 100 languages.
Multilingual Matters - International independent publishing house, with books in bilingualism, second/foreign language learning, sociolinguistics, translation, interpreting and books for parents.
The European Bookshop
- UK-based language store.
World Language Resources - On-line USA based language store.
Supplementary / International Schools:
ContinYou - The Resource Unit for Supplementary and Mother Tongue Schools s upport people running Saturday supplementary language schools. They maintain a list of all the schools serving all the language communities country wide. They also run training for people wanting to set up a school or who are already teachers or on management committees.
Supplementary schools in Manchester
Directory of Community Language Classes and Supplementary Schools in Croydon
Supplementary schools in Bristol
Supplementary schools in Bradford
Supplementary schools in Northamptonshire
Supplementary schools in Birmingham
European Council of International Schools
International Schools
Worlwide Classroom - Information about programs around the world which welcome international participation and further educational and intercultural goals.
Finding pen pals for your children:
International Youth Service - A Finland based organization founded in 1952, which provides young people between the ages of 10 and 18 with pen friends from over 100 countries.
Europa Pages' International Penpal service
Europa Pages' International Penpal service for schools
Letternet from Deutsche Post
Finding an au pair:
Home Office - Information about au pairs.
Europa Pages' Au Pair Centre - A free resource for both would-be aupairs and families looking for au pairs.
Aupair world - An internet database for families and au pairs who want to find each other without using an agency.
AuPairs JobMatch - Operats a matching service between families and would-be au pairs.
Foreign TV listings :
Many foreign TV channels are available on the Hotbird satellite. Some are free to air. Click here to find out more.
Another listing of foreign channels accessible via satellite: TPS
(click on 'Satellite')
How to get French satellite TV via TotalSat
How to get Swiss satellite TV
How to get Italian satellite TV
How to get German satellite TV
How to get Spanish satellite TV
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