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Giving Your Child a Head Start in French If you're raising kids in Canada, French isn't just a nice extra. It's one of the most practical gifts you can give them, and the payoff goes way beyond the classroom. The Practical Edge: Careers and Opportunity Canada's federal government is one of the biggest employers in the country, and about 40% of its positions are designated bilingual. Many of these, especially at the director level and up, are basically closed off if you only s

A linguist's take on why melody beats memorization drills I, Erik Kara, have a PhD in Applied Linguistics and spent years teaching kids before becoming a parent of two myself. Handing a 7-year-old a flashcard deck and expecting joy is not going to work. Times tables are one of the first places kids hit real math anxiety, and drilling tends to make it worse, not better. I still remember being in elementary school, listening to my classmates recite the times tables out loud bef