{"id":297,"date":"2007-02-16T21:19:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T20:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/bilingual-toys\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T20:19:12","slug":"bilingual-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Bilingual toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/articles\/2007\/02\/16\/a_bilingual_toy_boom\/\">The Boston Globe<\/a>, there has been a significant increase in the sale of bilingual toys in the USA. These are toys the speak words and phrases and sing songs, and which are designed to help young children to learn languages. The most popular language combination is English and Spanish, which doesn&#8217;t come as much surprise given that  there are nearly 48 million people of Hispanic origin in the United States. There are also toys that speak Chinese, Russian, Korean, Greek, Hebrew and various other languages.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilmingtonstar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070216\/NEWS\/702160396\/1050&#038;template=currents\">related article<\/a> gives more details and mentions that toy manufacturers are bringing out bilingual phones, globes, dolls, books and laptops. A market niche toy companies didn&#8217;t expect was the parents of children adopted from other countries, who are keen on toys that speak the languages of their children as this helps &#8216;bridge the gap between the two countries&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>If kids get an early start with learning languages, and see it as something enjoyable, this bodes well for their future.<\/p>\n<p>Do any of you know if there are any bilingual or multilingual computer games?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in The Boston Globe, there has been a significant increase in the sale of bilingual toys in the USA. These are toys the speak words and phrases and sing songs, and which are designed to help young children to learn languages. The most popular language combination is English and Spanish, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,13,64,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language-learning","category-spanish","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}