Teaching a toddler a second language which I'm not too brilliant at speaking myself

[KiwiKat]

I really want my 2 1/2 year old son to learn to speak a second language, but besides my native English, I speak only very ordinary French, so would never dream of attempting to teach him myself. Ideally I'd like him to just play with other children in a French-speaking environment, rather than a structured class, but the only groups I've heard about are for children who already hear French spoken at home.

Can anyone offer any advice re this? We live in East London.

Merci!

Have you heard of La Jolie Ronde? They do pre-school classes which teaches them in a fun way with games etc.

Maybe look for a daytime babysitter who would only speak French, or whatever, to him?

I will be looking for someone to speak Spanish to my bilingual kids when we move from Spain back to the UK. DP is a native speaker so we can speak it at home too but we have always spoken English at home so i'm nnot sure how easy it'll be to switch.

p.s try posting this in the bilingualism topic

Thanks for your advice, everyone.

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