
A journey into bilingual parenting, how language grows inside our babies, and how kids can grow up learning one, two, or many languages. Hosted by parents Elaine and Héctor, a biology teacher and a language teacher respectively, Petit Sounds is an informative show for parents and linguistics enthusiasts, sprinkled with music and humour.
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 10 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Categories | EducationLanguage Learning | ||||

Héctor and Elaine became parents just a few months after COVID lockdowns were introduced, which brought about some challenges in their one-parent one-language plans.
As remote working brought English into more non-native speakers’ homes, Elaine and... more
Around 90% of the world’s languages are tonal, meaning that unlike English, Spanish, or German, tone patterns are used to distinguish words and inflections. Speakers of tonal languages like Mandarin are more likely to develop perfect pitch, meaning t... more
In this episode, Héctor and Elaine explore some of the questions you might want to consider when raising a child in a bilingual household:
Do you speak your partner’s language?
If not, are you willing to learn?
Do you live near other native spe... more
In this episode, Héctor and Elaine explore nouns, how babies learn to identify them before being able to pronounce them, then eventually form the words themselves.
They examine the categories of words babies are able to understand at key developmen... more
In this episode, Héctor and Elaine explore the myths, advantages, and potential disadvantages around being bilingual or multilingual. They are joined by applied linguist Friederike Sell, an expert in language learning and multilingualism.
As a non-... more
It might not take long for your baby to go from speaking their first words to combining them, but the way they do so is more exploratory than you might think. In this fourth episode, Elaine and Héctor take a look at syntax: verbs, nouns, adjectives, ... more
In their previous episode, Elaine and Hector discussed language during pregnancy. Now they look at how babies understand and begin to form syllables into words, and gradually into sentences.
But what is a word? How do we know where a word starts or... more
Elaine and Hector take questions from the listeners about second-language adoption and raising a child in a language that is not your mother tongue. They uncover the surprising sounds your baby can hear from their earliest days, and explore the diffe... more
I love how this is based in the experience and knowledge of two linguistic professionals, so… it’s science!. They share very interesting and factual information about how to raise kids in a multilingual environment, plus, the dynamic and chemistry between Elaine and Hector makes this a very enjoyable and fun podcast that leaves you wanting for more. Keep the good work and release episodes more often!
This podcast is not “yet another podcast on parenting”: It’s well produced and presents a lot of linguistic knowledge in an accessible way with lots of examples. So that parents not only get advice on bi/multilingual parenting but can also understand the reasoning behind the advice.
How this podcast ranks in the Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube charts.
Apple Podcasts | #230 |










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