The MethodAdd English to the day you're already living
No lessons and no extra activities. You take the moments that already happen with your child, getting dressed, eating, playing, and you say a few of them in English. The same words, every day, until they feel like yours.
Two questions almost every parent asks first
Will English hold back my child's other language?
No. The language around your child gets learned almost on its own, just by being everywhere. English only happens if you bring it.
Research following children from age 5 to 10 found that the early vocabulary gap was gone by age 10. (Armstrong et al., 2025)
I'm not a native speaker. Is that a problem?
My job isn't to give my daughter perfect English. It's to give her enough, said often, said warmly. She already hears native English elsewhere, in songs, cartoons and books.
How it works
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Choose your setup
Decide who speaks English, or when and where. See the two setups below.
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Start with one routine
The one that happens most in your day.
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Keep the words close to the moment
Watch the phrase in the app before it happens, or download the phrase list for that moment, print it and stick it where the moment happens.
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Repeat before you add more
The same words at the same moment, a few days in a row.
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Add more when it feels easy
There's no rush.
Choose your setup
There are two realistic ways to bring English home. Neither is more correct than the other. What matters is which one you can actually keep up.
Setup 1
One Parent, One Language
Each parent always speaks one language to the child. Your child learns to connect English with you.
It fits if you're comfortable using English every day. In our home, I speak English and her dad speaks Slovak.
Setup 2
Time and Place
Instead of splitting by person, you split by moment. English lives in a few fixed pockets of the day. Everywhere else, you speak your own language.
A time of day
For example, the morning routine only, or only bath time and bedtime.
Won't that limit the words my child hears?
Less than you'd think. In the morning you're not only getting dressed. You talk about the day ahead, the weather, where you're going and who you'll see. In the evening, books bring in words from everywhere: animals, places, feelings, things you'd never see at home.
And when one pocket feels easy, you can add another.
A place
An English corner is one spot in a room, with a few books and toys, where only English is spoken. Your child knows: here, we speak English.
Time and Place is the easier start if you're not fluent yet, or if only one parent speaks English.
It also fits if you spend most of the day alone with your child. With One Parent, One Language, your child would hear only English from you and miss out on your mother tongue. With Time and Place, they hear both from you.
The goal isn't total immersion. It's consistency inside a boundary you can actually hold.
Moments you already have
Getting dressed, eating, reading, playtime, being on the go, daily chores. You don't need extra activities. These happen every day anyway.
Getting dressed
"Let's snap you up."
Eating
"Is it hot? We have to blow on it."
Reading time
"Let's lift the flap. Who is hiding under there?"
On the go
"Let's get you in your car seat."
Playtime
"Let's stack the ring on the peg."
Daily chores
"Let's put them away in the cabinet."
It will feel awkward at first
The first day after my daughter was born, all I managed was this:
"I love you... you are so beautiful."
Every day it got easier.
This is for you, too
You're not just teaching English. You're learning it with your child, out loud, in real time.
You don't have to feel ready. You just have to start.
The Betty's HOME app
The method is simple. The hard part is having the words when the moment comes. The app gives you the phrases you already say to your child, in English, each with a short video.
- Phrase cards for everyday moments, with a new moment every month
- A short video for every phrase, in a real moment with my daughter
- Every phrase checked with a native speaker
- Songs and rhymes, each with a video of how we do them
- Books, with a video of how I read them
- Mix-ups: little fixes for your own English
- A printable phrase list for every moment
- A community of parents, and Ask Betty for your own questions
- Your own phrases, saved in one place, with my answers from Ask Betty
Free until 31 December 2026
Then €7.99 a month or €69.99 a year. Nothing is charged automatically.
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