A tale aimed at helping children to learn the Calabrian-Greek language through play.
The author, Nunziella Cocuzza, on the assumption that play is learning, launches into a wonderful adventure, that of conveying the sounds and meanings of a second language to monolingual children, without giving them the impression that she is actually teaching.

This method employs the same mechanisms by which children learn their mother tongue, that is, a gradual, spontaneous association between sound and sense (or representations of reality).

The method, already tested by the author herself in various educational situations, is designed for children attending kindergarten and primary school, and requires no formal teaching or explanations. The teacher always speaks in Italian, but calls some people or things by their names in the second language. For example, in the case of Calabrian Greek, she uses a story where the protagonists are a wolf, a fox and a donkey. The wolf is Mr. Liko, the fox Mrs. Alupùda and the donkey Mr. Gàdaro. So, without any effort, the children will associate the sound of the Greek term “liko” with the wolf, and so on for the other names. Little by little, depending on the children’s ages and the level of their knowledge of the second language, it is easy to add the Greek words for other animals or objects, parts of the body, greetings etc. Thus the children’s vocabulary is built up.

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