Be positive. Avoid voicing aloud any past prejudices such as: I was never good at French! Or worse: I hated French at school. That was you and that was then!

Be encouraging. Foreign languages are not difficult. Foreign languages are fun. Foreign languages are exciting. Foreign languages are not confusing when you are three years old! The brain is flexible. The more stimulation it receives from the outside environment, the better it gets. The area responsible for a mother tongue is in one specific part of the brain but second and subsequent languages are developed in other areas of the brain. There will be no confusion!

Be supportive. Learning languages also develops your child’s curiosity. When a child knows that there are two words for cabbage, one day this child will ask if there is a third or a fourth! They will want to know where people speak French and they will want to look at a map of the world.  So be ready for such questions and further their education by looking at labels on produce in supermarkets to see where it comes from or look at pictures in travel brochures. If you have interesting items at home - books, souvenirs, photographs - allow your child to bring them to nursery so they can share their knowledge with the group.