“And my friend Chen Xiaoxin has similar experiences. Once, he went out to play with his classmates. Everyone felt uncomfortable with his mother’s supervision.” Wang Min, a mother of a 14-year-old boy, thinks playtime needs supervision. She explains, “People usually say I like to ...
When people move to new countries, they often leave their own customs and mother language behind. This is a mistake because there are many benefits to knowing more than one language. One advantage of speaking more than one language is that you can communicate directly with more people around ...
Stephen Brown Was 1,200 Miles Away in Spain When the GP Called an Ambulance for His Dying Mother. Guess Who Got to the Hospital First?Daily Mail (London)
Reading comprehension. Salvador Dali was one of the most interesting and unusual painters of all time. He was born in Spain in 1904 and began painting when he was a child. His mother gave him a room in the family home to paint in. In 1021 he went to st
The U Secretary General is visiting the mother and her son as a UN attempt to draw attention to the social and ecological problems of rapidly expanding populations The boy who came into the world a short time ago in Bosnia to such international acclaim will be sharing a birthday with a few...
8 The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environment. “Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often — you may talk to your father in one language and to your mother in another language,” says Albert Costa, a researche...
Now the Vieira children are adults, and they sometimes travel to Spain to visit their family and friends. But they cannot communicate with them. Unfortunately this is common. When people move to new countries, they often leave their own customs and mother language behind. This is a mistake be...
because he knew his son was going to be an artist.Pablo knew the word for pencil even before he could say Mamma and Papa.When he was small he spent hours by himself making delightful little drawings of animals and people.If his mother sent him out to play in the square,he went on ...
If his mother sent him out to play in the square, he went on drawing in the dust under the trees. One of his favourite models was his younger sister, Lola Don Jose Ruiz, Pablo's father, was director of the museum at Malaga in southern Spain. He earned only a sm...