by Rita | Apr 2, 2014 | Bilingual baby, Bilingual teenagers, Challenges, Family life, Practical advice, Top 10 most read posts
Most advice for parents raising bilingual children is based on the presumption that there are two parents actively involved in the upbringing. What if you are a single parent and don’t have the support of a partner – can it still be done? This is a question that has...
by Rita | Mar 5, 2014 | Bilingual teenagers, Challenges, Family life, Practical advice, Top 10 most read posts
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...
by Rita | Feb 26, 2014 | Bilingual benefits, Challenges, Practical advice, Top 10 most read posts
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...
by Rita | Jan 29, 2014 | Challenges, Practical advice, Top 10 most read posts
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...
by Rita | Jan 22, 2014 | Bilingual benefits, Top 10 most read posts
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...