7 ways to motivate your child to speak the minority language
Motivation is the key to any language learning, never more so than for a bilingual child keeping up with the minority language. 1 – Habit If you consistently stick to speaking the minority language with your children, they are less likely to want to switch to...
12 things parents raising bilingual children need to know
This post is also available in the following languages (click on the picture to read the post). More translations to follow: 1 – It doesn’t happen by magic Children do not become bilingual “by magic”. There is a persistent myth claiming that “children are like...
Bilingual parents – what to do if you are told to drop a language?
This is post I wish I wouldn’t have to write, and I had hoped advising parents to stick to only one language would be a thing of the past. But it isn’t. Only last week I was contacted by two worried parents from different parts of the world who had been told that...
Bilingual is better: the advantages of speaking more than one language
I have been reading many articles on the benefits of bilingualism lately and I decided to gather some of the best ones into one post and share them with you. This is one of my favourite topics, so I have already written about it on different occasions: how languages...Newsletter
