Moving to another country or a different language environment is a big change in any family. For a child, a move means a new environment, new school, new friends and often a new language. Depending on the age of the child, the challenges vary, and it is important that parents can support their children as well as possible. What should parents take into consideration for their children before and after their move? How to manage the family languages when the amount of exposure to them decreases or increases? Which school language to choose?
Bringing up your children to speak more than one language has many benefits – this has been proven both through research and personal experiences of bilinguals themselves. If you have read my posts before, you know that I often emphasize the benefits to the extended...