Question Hello! Thanks for the website! I am starting to check it out to make our daughter, multilingual like us! My wife and I are native Spanish speakers, we are living in Brazil right now, so we also know how to speak Portuguese and our third languages differ from...
Today I am participating in a vlogging chain arranged by Multicultural Kid Blogs and I am answering a question from Anna Watt from Russian Step by Step “How can you help other multilingual/multicultural families because of your own experience?” .. and here is my...
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I am delighted to have Marianna Du Bosq from Bilingual Avenue write today's guest post about the importance of books in supporting children's language development. Marianna has taught dual language learners for several years and is one of our Family Language Coaches....
Question Dear Family Language Coaches, My first son will soon be born and my husband and I have to make the difficult decision which languages to speak with him. I am German and we are living in Germany. So one of his languages will definitely be German. My husband’s...
It gives me great pleasure to welcome today's guest blogger, Amy Williams, a free-lance journalist based in Southern California and mother of two. As a parent, Amy enjoys spreading the word on positive parenting techniques in the digital age and raising awareness on...
If we want to change any injustice in the world, we first have to question why it exists in the first place. By asking the right questions we can understand the underlying reasons and together with other like-minded people become the trigger for change. When we are...
When you are raising your child to speak more than one language, it is important to know how to go about it – this is the raison d'être of my blog! It is however equally important to be aware of the things you should avoid when bringing up a bilingual child....
Revisiting one of my favourite topics – love for books, and why reading is so beneficial to a child’s language (and general) development! 1 – Reading time is bonding time Sitting down to read to your son or daughter gives you the opportunity to bond with them in a...
When I write reviews they are normally about non-academic books that I recommend for ALL my readers. Today’s book, Assessing Multilingual Children (subtitle: Disentangling Bilingualism from Language Impairment, edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem, Jan de Jong and Natalia...
Question My wife and I are having a baby, we are truly excited but we are scared about the language in how to educate our child. We are of different nationalities, Portuguese and Russian, we live in Germany (since one year) and our common language is English (our...