Accolade for bilingual baby scheme

A firm supplying English-speaking nannies to French families was a finalist for a top innovation prize.

Baby-speaking was selected for the recent Grand Prix de l'Innvation de la Ville de Paris, which rewards companies with bright ideas. The firm was set up by two business graduates, Antoine Gentil and Julien viaud. It offers nannies who are native speakers in certain languages, of which the most popular is english, so as to immerse children in a second language as soon as possible.

The idea come to Mr Gentil after coming back to France from the US, where his family had moved, and considering the fluency and good accents of his younger sisters, who had grown up there.

The firm's nannies, wherther English-speaker, or Russian or Chinese etc, talk to their charges in their own tongue and arrive and arrive equipped with games, books and songs.

They can be booked by the hour (from age 0 to 12) or full-time, for activities such as collecting children from school, preparing their goûter snakc, playing games, bathing babies etc.

Baby-speaking
Home language immersion company
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English-speaking nannies, babysitters and teachers