Different voices: multi-lingual software

Let a computer translate your nursery's languages, says Karen Shepherd Imagine yourself abandoned in a foreign country, surrounded by strangers whose language and customs are incomprehensible to you. For a three-year-old whose mother tongue differs from the predominant language in the nursery, starting nursery may be just as traumatic. Our first instinct was to involve parents to help such children, inviting them to work alongside staff to help their children learn the nursery routines. However, this tends to offer only a short-term solution. Inevitably, the time comes when the parents...