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Receptive bilingualism – understanding but not speaking a language

Receptive bilingualism – understanding but not speaking a language

by Rita | Mar 23, 2016 | Challenges, Language, Practical advice

When discussing the language skills of children in multilingual families, you occasionally come across the situation where a child has learnt to understand a language, but is unable (or unwilling) to speak it. Quite often you will find this described as passive...
Is it too late to introduce your language to your child?

Is it too late to introduce your language to your child?

by Rita | Mar 16, 2016 | Bilingual baby, Bilingual teenagers, Challenges, Practical advice

“You must start speaking your language to your baby from day one!” “She is already three and you haven’t started yet? She won’t sound like a native!” “If you don’t introduce the language before he goes to school, you have missed your chance!” “Older than seven and he...
Q&A: How to adjust the family language strategy when a trilingual child’s majority language changes?

Q&A: How to adjust the family language strategy when a trilingual child’s majority language changes?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 28, 2016 | Bilingual baby, Coaches, Family life, Practical advice

Question Hello, I am Mari, I am Italian and I live in Finland with my Finnish husband and our 10 months old daughter. My husband and I met in the UK where we lived for about 10 years until we moved to Finland 2 years ago. We have been always communicating in English...
Early Bilingual Language Development: Facts and Fictions [guest post]

Early Bilingual Language Development: Facts and Fictions [guest post]

by Rita | Jan 27, 2016 | Bilingual baby, Challenges, Guest post, Myths, Practical advice

I am delighted to introduce you to today’s guest blogger, Dr. Mary-Pat O’Malley-Keighran. She is a lecturer, author, researcher, speech and language therapist, and lover of all things to do with speech, language, and communication. She has over 20 years’...
Reading with the multicultural child [guest post]

Reading with the multicultural child [guest post]

by Rita | Jan 13, 2016 | Family life, Language, Practical advice

It’s a great joy and honour to have Katey Howes join my blog as a guest today! Katey is a mom of three, children’s author and literacy advocate who blogs about raising kids who love to read at Kateywrites. Katey is a native English speaker who studied in Madrid,...
Multilingual Parenting: Top 10 posts of 2015 for parents of bilingual children

Multilingual Parenting: Top 10 posts of 2015 for parents of bilingual children

by Rita | Dec 30, 2015 | Bilingual baby, Bilingual teenagers, Blogging, Challenges, Family life, Practical advice

The countdown to year 2016 has started, so let’s look at the year which is coming to an end – here are the top posts of 2015, starting with number 10: 10. Passing on a non-native language to your child, part 1: Considerations Part 2 of this series is on...
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