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5 Games to Get Your Bilingual Child Talking
Encouraging your kids to speak the minority language isn’t always easy so make it fun! Here are five games that will help get them talking.
10 Best Things About Raising Bilingual Kids
The best 10 things about going bilingual with your children.
Many Languages, One America: 25 Proud Bilingual Children
The voices of 25 bilingual children in the U.S., where one in five kids speaks a language other than English at home. So if you want to know the language America speaks, it's English and 300 other languages. #ispeakamerican
8 Awesome Pinterest Boards for Bilingual Kids
8 pinterest boards you should be following if you are raising bilingual kids.
Is Mixing Languages OK in Bilingual Children?
We live in Spain and while at home, we typically only speak English, recently my toddler started mixing English and Spanish. Is that ok?
Autism and Bilingualism: Why I Ignored the Professional’s Advice to Drop My Son’s Second...
By the age of two, it was apparent that Oscar was different than other children. “More of a care child,” was how one rather abrupt nursery teacher described him. The first time his bilingualism was brought into question was at the age of three. The advice given by the teacher was to learn Dutch very quickly and only speak Dutch with him. Although as I child I was raised to respect professionals and believed that they knew everything, as an adult I understand that professionals, despite their best intentions, sometimes get it wrong.
3 Big Mistakes Parents Make in Raising Bilingual Kids
Raising bilingual kids can often be hard work to ensure the child is getting enough exposure in the second language. While no parents means to discourage their kids, make sure their enthusiasm stays on track by avoiding these big mistakes.
Why is My Bilingual Child’s Vocabulary Below Her Peers?
The oldest just turned six, she is in Kindergarten and just received her IOWA test of basic skills results. She did very well overall but her vocabulary skills were well below all of her other skills. Is this common in bilingual kids?
6 Ideas to Raise a Bilingual Child on a Budget
Raising a bilingual child in a country where bilingualism is not a given can be expensive. When you do not speak a second language, can't afford private immersion school and tutors are too pricey as are the fancy language classes in your community, then what options do you have left? Here are six ideas.
Is all the Hard Work of Bilingualism Really Paying Off?
From my kids talking to Jose Luis Orozco in Spanish this past weekend to finding joy in someplace unexpected, I realized all my work in in helping them develop their Spanish is really starting to pay off.
7 Benefits of Raising Bilingual Kids
Being bilingual affords children many advantages over the course of their lifetime. Here are seven benefits that have been documented in research and studies.
How Should We Teach Reading to a Bilingual Child?
My bilingual five-year-old daughter was learning to read in English and then my husband started teaching her to read in French. She lost all interest in reading in either language now. Is there an easier way to teach French reading? Should I insist my husband back off on pushing French reading as she will learn this in school next year anyway to rekindle her interest in English reading?
Why Your Bilingual Child Objects When You Switch Languages
Anyone who interacts for some time with a young bilingual child will notice the strong bond that exists between a person and a language. In the eyes of the child a person is tagged with a particular language, and if that person addresses the child in the other language, it may cause some distress. Here's the reason why.
8 Tips for Encouraging Bilingualism in Different Personality Types
Introverted and extroverted children require different approaches for learning the minority language. Here are eight tips for raising bilingual introverts and extroverts.
Do Bilingual Children Know Fewer Words Than Monolinguals?
Research has often shown that bilingual children produce their first word at about the same time as monolingual children, on average. A recent study analyzes whether children exposed to two languages access words in the brain and produce words in the same way as monolingual children.
29 Tips for Raising Bilingual Kids
Raising a child with good bilingual ability can be a significant challenge. How do you support the minority language so that it keeps pace with the relentless development of the majority language?
Language Resource Library for Raising Bilingual Kids
A comprehensive list of language learning resources for bilingual children across many languages.
Tipping the Bilingual Scale on Arabic Exposure
What is the tipping point of language exposure input that shifts the balance from passive to active, from understanding to speaking?
The Science Behind Bilingual Children’s Brains
Why start language learning early? With the help of modern technology in neuroscience, we now understand how language develops during infancy and early childhood. Also, based on countless studies, researchers can safely conclude that as your child grows older, her uncanny language abilities decrease significantly. This 'critical period' means that you should strike while the iron is hot!
When Trilingual is Not Necessarily Better than Bilingual
This couple is trying to decide on a bilingual or trilingual approach to parenting. Read why Dr. Gupta advises them to choose bilingual.
Bilingual Parenting: Five Strategies to Start Now
Five strategies for raising a bilingual infant
How Bilingualism Can Fail in Multilingual Families
The challenges of raising bilingual kids in the one parent one language system.
Diary of a Bilingual Spanish School
Stories from a second grade immersion-Spanish classroom that embraces a constructivist curriculum. Constructivist theory emphasizes concepts over facts, deep understanding over rote learning and the transfer of knowledge between disciplines.
Bilingual Writers and Colonialism
What I discovered on my search for amazing bilingual writers
Fostering Bilingual Education through Two-Way Immersion
Fluent bilingualism is commonplace throughout much of the world. How strange that it’s so difficult to achieve in the United States! Unless we came here as immigrants, grew up in homes where another language was spoken, or spent extended time in a non-English-speaking country, most Americans are likely to be monolingual.
Raising Bilingual Kids Talk
I recently participated in a talk on raising bilingual kids over at The Motherhood, with many great co-hosts.
All I Want for Christmas is Perfectly Bilingual Children
When it comes to raising a bilingual child, I have several beliefs about how you can waste your time.
The Influence of Bilingual Preschool Teachers
Lately, both of my girls have taken to calling my youngest, Lila, “Lilita.” Although they do not attend a bilingual Spanish preschool, two of the three teachers are native Spanish speakers.
Is Raising Bilingual Children Worth the Costs?
I am now married to a so-white-it’s-almost-blinding husband, who only speaks English, and together we are attempting to raise bilingual and bicultural children. It is both easier and harder than we anticipated. Oh, and more expensive.
Which method is best for raising bilingual kids when the main bilingual parent is...
I am a native English speaker who married a native Spanish speaker. We want our kids to be bilingual, but we are very torn on which method to use.
Chinese School Dropout: Why I No Longer Torture My Son With Bilingualism
After three years of flashcards, tracing sheets, computer games and CDs, I’m giving in. I’m a Chinese School Dropout. Or rather my second-grader is.
Raising Bilingual Kids? You Could be Raising Them Trilingual!
I’ve made an interesting bilingual discovery with my own children that was confirmed by an expert in child bilingualism.
Raising my son bilingual in non-native Spanish is exhausting me–should I continue?
I am an adoptive parent raising my son, Oakley, in non-native Spanish. Increasingly, I have moments where I feel like I can't keep on speaking to Oakley in Spanish. I'm exhausted.
Bilingual Parenting: OPOL or Mixed Language—Does it Matter?
One of the most frequently asked questions from parents bringing up their children bilingually is whether they should speak both languages or separate them. Some bilingual families mix both languages on a regular basis, sometimes in the same sentence. Other families choose to link one language to a parent, a strategy known as the one parent one language (OPOL) approach, to expose the child to a ‘pure’ example of the language.
Learning to Read When Bilingual: Which Language First?
A hot topic for parents trying to raise balanced bilinguals is which language do you teach first, the minority one or the community language? Or maybe both at once?
How to go about Japanese-English bilingualism in the U.S.? I don’t want my kids...
How do you suggest a parent work with, while protecting, her children from the strong pressures to conform to making English dominant in one’s head, in the context of the U.S. and Japan? U.S. bilingualism is short lived. Japanese bilingualism is even shorter.
Perfect Bilingualism: Does it Exist?
Recent research shows that most bilingual speakers, although there may be exceptions, have an accent in one of their languages, or even in both.
Benefits of Raising Bilingual Children: Correcting My Grammar
I've long been resigned (though secretly thrilled) that my six-year-old daughter corrects my French, but I didn't expect my three-year-old son to start just yet.
What Bilingualism is Not
There are also the myths that real bilinguals do not have an accent in their different languages and that they are excellent all-around translators. This is far from being true.
Bilingual Fact? Girls Have an Easier Time Than Boys
The part of the brain which controls language development develops faster in girls than in boys.
Study: Bilinguals See the World in a Different Way
Bilinguals see the world differently because of the inextricable link between language, culture and cognition (no surprise).
Study: Bilingualism Good for the Brain
Bilingual children are more effective at multi-tasking.
Si, Yes: Raising Bilingual Twins
Emma and Hannah have been bilingual since they were born and many times they mix up English and Spanish in one sentence. When they do this, they seem to pick the easiest words from each language. Most of the time, they combine both languages because they do not have the vocabulary they need.
Why Bilingual Children Prefer A Certain Language With Adults
This article is a fascinating look at why children connect languages to a particular person and why they are so adamant about it. If you have ever tried to switch your usual language with a young child, you will know exactly what I mean.
Study: Bilingual Infants Can Distinguish Unfamiliar Languages
Infants raised in households where Spanish and Catalan are spoken can discriminate between English and French just by watching people speak, even though they have never been exposed to these new languages before.
The Economics of Bilingualism
Not everyone has the same reasons for raising bilingual children. For some, it is necessity, for others a desire.
Help! My Bilingual Child Won’t Speak My Language
If you find your child refuses to speak your language, don't hit the panic button just yet. All you need is a little bit of patience and perhaps some organization too.
Is bilingualism hurting my niece’s language skills in both Spanish and English? Are two...
Dear Dr. Gupta,
I am not sure what to do about my niece’s English and Spanish. She has grown up in a bilingual environment. Her...
Raising Bilingual Children in Non-Native Language: Tools for Parents
So your kids have a ton of target-language DVDs, books, websites and toys to fast-track their bilingualism, but what about you, the parent? If the target language isn't your native one, you'll be wanting to maintain and improve it any chance you get.
Late Speaker and Bilingual? Changing a Common Belief
Popular wisdom would have it that bilingual children are generally late speakers. It was certainly my experience when my son at three didn't speak but a few words. People around me would tell me oh, don't worry it's because he's bilingual. My own doctor told me there was no need for concern as my son was learning two languages at the same time.
Why the Surrounding Language has the Greatest Impact on Your Child’s Bilingualism
By the age of four, I had lived in three different countries and spoke pieces of three different languages. I was born in the former Soviet Union to an East German father and a Peruvian mother. My parents were university students in present day Ukraine and they communicated with each other in their only common language at that time, Russian.
20 Diverse Movies for Family Movie Night
I am always on the lookout for quality, diverse children's movies for family movie nights. I'm not the biggest fan of Disney and although...
Myths of Multilingual Families
The key to learning languages in the home—whether one, two, or even more—is interaction. Interaction involves speaking and listening. In many intercultural families, however, children do not become bilingual.
How to Reinforce the Minority Language at Home
Early on, I read quite a bit about language acquisition and discovered that children need interactive language exposure in order to learn a language....
How We Left Our Jobs to Travel with Our Kids
How we left our busy 9 to 5 jobs and saved enough money to take 6 months off with our kids.
When the Latina Nannies Found Out I Spoke Spanish
I had tried to hold out on the older Latina nannies in the park knowing I spoke Spanish. As long as we spoke in English our relationship was kept shallow, limited by their vocabulary. They would ask about my day and coo over my infant but that was about it. I knew that once they knew about me, I would never again be alone for better or for worse.
How to raise trilingual kids when exposure to Dad’s language is limited
My kids only get 1-2 hours of the minority language per day. How can I ensure they will speak it?
Costa Rica with Kids: Two Weeks of Family Travel
Two weeks of Pura Vida in a country with so much to offer families.
Should I Worry about My Child’s Accent in Her Foreign Language?
See why Dr. Gupta takes offense to this question and where children learn accents from
The Sofia Martinez Series: Chapter Books for Early Readers
An engaging early reader chapter book with a central character of color, and with a narrative that integrates language and cultural nuances.
How My Toddler is Teaching Me Thai
My son's Thai helps break down barriers. Without him, I might be just another foreigner.
Will Three Languages Confuse a Young Child?
I speak Spanish. My wife speaks Italian. We are raising our son in the U.S. Is 3 languages too many when he is really young?
How I Made My Forgotten Native Language My Child’s Strongest
I could barely string together a sentence in Cantonese but I was determined to raise my son in it. Here's how I did it.
Do I Hold My Son Back to Get into the Immersion Program?
Her son is going into first grade but a spot opened up in the Korean immersion program but for kindergarten only. His older system attends the program. Korean is important to the family.
After Her Husband’s Tragic Death, She Embraced a Religion and Culture Not Her Own
Humans of San Francisco: how this Japanese mom embraced Judaism to give her son a piece of his father
Real Intercultural Family in Thailand: French, English and Spanish
Meet Javier and Cordelia—a French-American-Mexican couple who are raising kids in Asia after a romance that spanned London and New York City.
Reflections from a Happy Third Culture Kid 20 Years Later
Meet Stephan, an adult third culture kid who feels at home everywhere in the world and speaks Mandarin, German, English and Spanish Here is what his parents did right.
How This Single Working Mom Raised a Trilingual Kid
Without a lot of resources or time, Maria has succeeded in raising trilingual kids.
Do WASP Westerners Deserve Visibility in a Foreign Culture?
All too often what might be misinterpreted as a superiority complex over another culture by someone who fits my description is actually something else worth discussing: a cultural defense mechanism. Do we as English-speaking WASPs have a right to defend our culture, one that is so globally pervasive in both media and entertainment? I am about to argue that we do.
Multicultural Children’s Book Day: January 27
Exciting! January 27 is the first ever Multicultural Children’s Book Day.
Raising Trilingual Children? An Interview Not to Miss!
Advice to parents from a young multilingual adult. Learn about what her parents did right.
5 Multicultural Picture Books For Younger Children
Check out these multicultural book recommendations for little ones that encompass diverse cultures, places and languages!
Real Intercultural Family in France: Spanish, French and English
It all started in a history class in Utah. Four kids and three languages later, read about their unique system for keeping all three languages in tact.
My Son’s Father is an Addict. How Do I Embrace His Heritage?
My son's father is an active alcoholic and an addict. In order to protect myself and my son, I have made it clear that he is not allowed to see my son when he is drunk. This boundary means my son sees his father very rarely, and mostly outside our home. I have found that I have transferred my complex emotions about my son's father onto his culture.
Real Intercultural Family in Canada: Mandarin, Latvian and English
They met online on different sides of the world in this modern day romance and she moved from Shanghai to Canada for love.
7 Diverse Children’s Cartoons (where the main character isn’t the standard white one)
Stereotypes run rampant in much of our media consumption and children’s cartoons are no exception. We wanted to find more cartoons that feature kids of different races and ethnicities across cultural backgrounds. Here's our list.
Diverse Children’s Books that Travel to Mexico
We were intrigued when our three-year-old son's favorite country was Mexico (and that was two years ago!). Then jalapeno became his favorite word for a while. And recently we noticed his more concrete desire to learn and speak the Spanish language. Here are six books that take my son on a journey to Mexico from our couch and are perfect for little adventurers!
Real Intercultural Family in the U.K.: Urdu, Italian and English
Meet Sara and Waqar raising trilingual kids in Urdu, Italian and English in London!
Should I Improve My Own Language Skills to Teach My Daughter?
Is it worth picking a language I know and teaching my daughter words and phrases alongside her native English or would this just be confusing?
Real Intercultural Family in Guatemala: Russian, Spanish and English
See how the Mayan ruins brought together this trilingual family 12 years ago.
Giveaway: Go on a Scavenger Hunt and Win TONS of Cool Prizes!
Want to win some really cool multicultural prizes like a three-month subscription to Little Passports, Little Pim DVDs or some great books? Then come have an adventure with us and a bunch of our multicultural blog friends.
6 Favorite Children’s Books about Ramadan
We have read many books about Ramadan in our home, but every single one of these made our list of top six because my children love them as much as I do.
Overheard on the Beijing Subway When People Don’t Think I Speak Mandarin
One unexpected benefit of bilingualism is when I speak English to my daughter in China, people think I don't speak Mandarin and talk very, very freely about all sorts of things about us. Here's what I recently overheard!
Celebrating Holidays as Global Citizens
One of the challenges of living abroad is combining the traditions of your home culture with the traditions of your new country. Have you ever tried to hold a traditional American Thanksgiving in Kerala or a 10-year-old's birthday party in Osaka? Although there are ways to combine traditions, sometimes you just want your own type of celebration, like a Canadian Mother's Day instead of a Chinese one.
Learning about Samoa Through Music
Talofa! You just said 'hi' in the beautiful language of the Samoan people. I learned my first Samoan song about a month ago and since then I have been fascinated with the music, language and culture. Here are two songs to share with your children.
Real Intercultural Family in Italy: Dutch, Dialect of Dutch, Italian and English
This Dutch mom is raising a quadrilingual daughter (Dutch, dialect of Dutch, Italian and English) in Italy. See how she does it.
How Many Languages Are Too Many for a Child?
I have a burning question. How many languages is too many? I ask because we are a trilingual family English/French/Spanish. We have decided on homeschooling this September with our two girls, in part to up the time spent with Spanish, the minority language in our house. The thing is, the families in our homeschool coop may end up being more interested in Mandarin, which we are surrounded by living in Asia.
Real Intercultural Family in the U.S.: Mandarin, Spanish and English
They are raising perfectly trilingual kids in Mandarin, Spanish and English. See how they do it.
Do I teach my child my native language even though I am not fluent?
Is it worthwhile to speak to my baby in my native Cantonese with the hope that he will acquire some of the language even though I only have rudimentary fluency (grade school level)?
My 3-Year-Old Understands Spanish but Only Speaks English. Help!
We want to raise our daughters bilingual so I speak Spanish and my husband speaks English. The reality is my three-year-old understands Spanish but only speaks English. We want her to speak Spanish. Help!
How Immersion Travel Helped My Kids Progress in Spanish
I couldn’t wait to see how my kids would do with their new Spanish when we got to Mexico. 10 days advanced their Spanish way more than I anticipated.
English is starting to replace Portuguese. What can I do?
Dear Dr. Gupta, my three-year-old child speaks English everywhere and with my husband at home, and Portuguese with me. I recently noticed that she is adding more and more English words in her conversation with me and forgetting Portuguese words that are common in her world, such as the names of colors and animals. What can I do?
Why OPOL Doesn’t Always Work
Six years into OPOL parenting, and here is what I have learned about raising bilingual kids in the OPOL method.
Real Intercultural Family in the U.S.: Russian, Spanish and English
Meet our newest real intercultural family whose children speak Russian, Spanish, English, and share four cultures and two religions.
Is TV in Mandarin helpful or overkill for my trilingual Cantonese-speaking child?
We are an OPOL family, speaking Italian (father), Cantonese Chinese (mother) and English (between the parents) at home. For Christmas I bought myself a device to stream TV from China but find that it is mostly in Mandarin, not Cantonese. Should I let my daughter watch?
Why Do You Speak Arabic, Baba?
How bilingual four years olds think about language.
Real Multicultural Family in Vietnam: French, Vietnamese and English
Meet Elka and Thien, a family living in Vietnam, sharing four cultures and three languages including Vietnamese, English and French.
What to Expect From Daycare in a Non-Native Language
Three years ago we moved to the Netherlands from the U.S. with our two-month-old daughter. Neither my Italian husband nor I spoke any Dutch. Fast forward to present and we now have a very talkative three-year-old who regularly insists that she speaks only “Nederlands.” This is what we have learned about what you can expect when you send your child to daycare in a non-native language.
Why Multicultural Music is Important for Children
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Nine years ago I made the long journey from Italy to California to chase what many call the “American Dream.” I left...
Spanish at the Price of Arabic?
One month ago, we embarked on our official trilingual family journey, introducing over four hours of Spanish daily to our children. But more Spanish goes together with less Arabic and I can't help but wonder, is Spanish coming at the expense of Arabic?
Want to Raise a Global Citizen? Follow Soccer!
Soccer teaches kids eight key lessons about global citizenship
10 Things Not to Say to Parents of Multilingual Children
As a Polish mother in the Netherlands with multilingual children growing up with Polish, German and Dutch, I often hear uninformed and judgmental comments. So here are 10 things you should never (and I mean NEVER) say to parents of multilingual children.
10 Reasons Parents Should Read Diverse Books to Kids
Given recent discussions around the New York Times article, “How to Read Racist Books to Kids,” it became even more important to me to analyze what it is that we've come to accept as mainstream in children's literature today. What should our kids be reading instead? What are the big bookstores really missing?
This article discusses why it's critical all parents read books that reflect diversity.
This article discusses why it's critical all parents read books that reflect diversity.
Language Dilemmas in a Multilingual Family
"As much as I tried, I could not motivate my sons to sit down and write the alphabet or focus strongly on Serbo-Croat like my girls. My older daughter, in particular, sought out books and worked with my mom every summer on her Croatian. In college, she studied Spanish and can communicate fairly well. The youngest gets her lessons in Croatian from her grandma through visits to the Croatian piazza or while gardening, observing nature, watching Croatian TV channels, shopping and while sharing endless concoctions of delicious Croatian gelato on summer vacations."
In a trilingual home with three alphabets, our blogger Zvezdana has raised four children, two bilingual and two trilingual.
Open Letter to Barnes & Noble
We love the diverse selection of books your offer and how much fun our children have browsing through books and games every time we come in to your store. We frequently purchase books for presents on our way to a birthday party but we always notice something is missing when we browse the children’s section: more multicultural children’s literature.
Buddhist Insights into Raising a Balanced Teenager
A Buddhist approach to dealing with the tough teenage years
Real Intercultural Family in China: Chinese and English
Met Lizi (British) and Da Jun (Chinese) raising a bilingual son in Beijing and soon Britain.
At a Loss for Words: My Foreign Language Meltdown
I am probably spoiled, being brought up bilingual and exposed to many languages and cultures. Perhaps I just haven't been adventurous enough in my travels, but I don't ever recall finding myself in a situation where I could neither derive any inkling of meaning from the exchange nor express in any terms or gesticulations what I needed to say—that is until now.
Multilingual Children for Money or Love?
Our dream of fostering our family’s multilingualism has pushed me to think about what exactly we hope to achieve with raising multilingual children.
François Grosjean Responds: Cherishing the Multilingual Heart
At the end of last year, the title of a post by Jan Petersen on InCultureParent caught my attention: "How Francois Grosjean Broke My Multilingual Heart." I was troubled at first as I have defended bi- and multilinguals most of my academic life, not broken their hearts!
When Relocation Adds a New Language to the Mix
Relocation and a new language: why some people chose not to give the “gift” of multilingualism.
Progress Report: Mission Arabic-Speaking Babysitter
This past week, we have had our new Arabic-speaking babysitter everyday for a total of 12 hours all week. From day one, she had told me the girls understand her 100%, which we know already, it is just their speaking Arabic that has been problematic.
We speak Mandarin to our daughter but should I switch to Italian?
We speak Mandarin at home in the U.S. but I am of Italian origin and would like my daughter to speak some Italian. Should I change languages, even though I like speaking Mandarin and it feels awkward to speak Italian to her?
Our Top 10 Articles in 2011
Here are our InCultureParent readers’ favorites over this past year.
How Francois Grosjean Broke My Multilingual Heart
Francois Grosjean broke my heart with an article he wrote recently, Helen or Hélène. The actual quote that touched me is "few language users are poets."
Language for Family Ties or Competitive Edge?
When we decided to move to Singapore about 18 months ago, people’s reactions fell into roughly three categories:
Why Doesn’t China Let Baba Go Home?
My six-year-old, Luca, is at the age where he is starting to understand complicated concepts in the world around him. But it is difficult for a six-year-old to understand that his father cannot travel home to China because the government does not allow him to enter the country.
Speaking in Tongues Film
Why is bilingualism important to you? Answer this question to win the DVD of the film, Speaking in Tongues.
Nanny Wanted: Must Be Both Idiot and Expert
All over the world, women trade parenting. In Hong Kong, babies are raised by Indonesians, in Australia they’re Filipinos. It made me think about the amount of trust entailed in letting someone care for your children...it’s fascinating that people give that responsibility to those they consider so different from themselves.
African Parenting: The Sane Way to Raise Children
There is an oft-quoted African saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Less cited is the second half of the saying, “...and a community to keep the parents sane.”
Forgetting my Mother Tongue
How can I hope to teach my kids German if I am losing it myself?
Safeguarding Multiculturalism
The debate that is often in the news, about the failed multicultural policies of many European countries, is one that interests me since I lived as an immigrant in Germany.
InCultureParent’s Essential Chinese New Year Reading List
InCultureParent's essential reading list for the Chinese New Year.
Education in Multilingual Families: The Burning Question—Part One
Education. One word, carrying so much baggage. Hope for the future; worries about its quality and quantity. And for families raising bilingual or multilingual children, the language question adds another dimension of difficulty...
Are grammatical errors ok when speaking a second language to a child?
Are we doing more harm than good if our grammar is weak in a second language that we are speaking to our infant?
Why I Want My Children to be Multilingual
Question: why is it important to me that my kids speak more than one language?
I have to admit that I never really thought about...
Another Benefit of Raising Kids in Non-native Language
And an unforeseen benefit of raising bilingual children is that I feel less exposed when it comes to disciplining Schmoo in public.
Bringing Diwali to Life for Children
Diwali: A Festival of Lights and Fun (Diwali: Kushiyon Ka Tyohaar)
By Manisha Kumar & Monica Kumar (Authors), Sona & Jacob (Illustrators)
Reviewed by Meera Sriram
(Reprinted...
Real Intercultural Family in Montenegro: German and Serbian
They met in Montenegro and are raising bilingual kids in Serbian and German.
Adventures in Raising Trilingual Kids
I am bringing up my children, Schmoo and Pan-Pan, to speak three languages: English, Twi and French.
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