Bilingual resources
Cards, labels and the picture dictionary can show each word's translation in one of about thirty languages, from Arabic to Ukrainian.
Cards, labels and the picture dictionary can now show, under each word, its translation in a second language. The words can also be entirely in another language, for a bingo in Spanish or a memory game in Arabic.
Who it is for
For a child who does not speak French yet, a card that shows the word in their language gives a support. A family can follow what is done in class. An adult learning a language uses it every day.
The home language matters
The French preschool curriculum of 2024 asks teachers to value “the home language of multilingual pupils, or of pupils who speak another language”, and the Eduscol guide on preschool vocabulary (2020) suggests that “the non-French-speaking child can teach words of their language to the rest of the class” (page 45, translated from French). Jim Cummins, in Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners (2021), points the same way: a person's languages support each other, and what a child has understood in their language serves learning French. A word whose meaning the child already knows in their language only needs a new name.
The translations are ready for the words of the lexicon. They can be corrected by hand in the word window when they do not fit.
