About Little globetrotters

Meet Katy and Barbara

Katy Loh and Barbara Langford setup Little Globetrotters in April 2009 to promote language learning in early years development. With a global economy languages are becoming increasingly important and opens far more opportunities for thise who master a second language.

Katy Loh

16+ years experience as a language teacher
Trilingual (English, French and German)
Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching
CRB checked

Barbara Langford

Barbara mainly runs the business side of Little GlobeTrotters but will be seen at some of the sessions on her accordion!

5 years as teacher
6 years in business
Post Graduate Certificate in Education

Little known fact

Use it, or lose it. In Detoxing Childhood, Sue Palmer says " If neurons in the brain don't fire and wire, they'll eventually disappear. A baby is born with all the neurons it needs to speak any language on earth, but the sounds that the baby will learn are the ones that they hear regularly. The neurons for picking up other language sounds die away, so that after the age of six the brain can no longer discriminate them. This is why when Chinese people learn English later in life they find it so difficult to pronounce the "r"."