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Raising bilingual children

Jed with her daughter Francesca

Jed reads to her daughter and narrates stories using the Filipino language Source: supplied by J Gerona

Jed Quiambao Gerona is a Filipina based in Sydney, she and her husband would like their two daughters aged four and eight months to learn the Filipino language. Her eldest daughter, Francesca, loves books and every time Jed reads her a story, she narrates it in Filipino.



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