"Speakening: English and Spanish for Serious Students is a dual-language course in English and Spanish using brief dialogues as the means to achieving fluency in both languages. The dialogues, called Exchanges, present all the sentence structures necessary for understanding the grammar of both languages. This grammar is acquired the way we acquire the grammar of our mother tongue: naturally."--

"All infants and toddlers need experiences that nurture, support, and teach their home language and culture. Language is a vital component of early experiences well before the child can say his first word. Infants and toddlers whose families come from diverse backgrounds and speak different languages are appearing in all kinds of early care and learning settings in growing numbers. Even the most experienced caregiver can feel a bit unsure about meeting...