Experts say bilingual education not only improves children's language skills but also helps with problem-solving and mental fitness. And that's driven one family to produce their own range of bilingual books.
Many Australian children grow up reading in English, but three-year-old Anaiya Bains can do so much more. And it's all thanks to her father Gagandeep Bains. He is teaching Anaiya his native Punjabi, after migrating to Australia from the Punjab region of India in 2009. "From the time she was born, we wanted to teach her Punjabi as well as English, but the picture books we had were either only in Punjabi or in English," he said.
"Reading regularly, even five to 10 minutes a day will help a child's language development. "We also know that from a young age there are cognitive benefits in learning a second language, too." Parrila also said adults who speak multiple languages seem to experience a slower cognitive decline as they age. Parrila comes from a multilingual household where his native Finnish was spoken, and his daughter Sofia grew up speaking several languages.
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