Your passport to giving your children the gift of speaking a foreign language is in this book. The seeds of establishing vocabulary, recognition, and pronunciation will be planted today with My Bilingual Baby Speaks French! This book will take you through the alphabet of foods from A to Z! It's very gratifying and heartwarming to see and hear your child speaking in a foreign language.

I think it's well-known that babies and children are like sponges when it comes to learning languages and that they can easily understand and start speaking one, two, three, even four different languages as long as they have consistency in hearing and speaking those languages.

Studies indicate that the bilingual experience improves the brain's so-called executive function—a command system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems, and performing various other mentally demanding tasks. Additionally, further studies support that learning a second language is one of the most effective and practical ways to increase intelligence, keep your mind sharp, and buffer your brain against aging.

As a native English-speaking mother of four, I'm grateful that I had the foresight to provide my babies with the gift of not just being bilingual, but trilingual. Seventeen years later, my four children are still fluently speaking English, French, and Spanish.

It's with this experience that I encourage everyone to gift their little ones with the benefits and blessings of at least a solid bilingual foundation, and this book, My Bilingual Baby Speaks French, will provide just that foundation.

Check out the entire series in both French and Spanish!

By Barb Dempsey

Illustrations By Barb and Joy Dempsey