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8 tips to boost your family’s multilingual journey [guest post]

8 tips to boost your family’s multilingual journey [guest post]

by Rita | Feb 22, 2017 | Guest post, How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Non-native language, Practical advice

Today I am delighted to introduce you to our new Family Language Coach, Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, a.k.a, Miss Panda Chinese. Amanda is a successful language instructor with over 15 years’ teaching experience in Taiwan, the U.S., Morocco, Canada, and Ecuador. She now...

Q&A: How to pass on both Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese as minority languages?

Q&A: How to pass on both Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese as minority languages?

by Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett | Dec 18, 2016 | Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, Coaches, Literacy, Toddlers

  Question Hi, Both my husband and myself are native in speaking Cantonese. We live in the US but we communicate in Cantonese with my 2-year-old as well. My husband is also a native Mandarin speaker while I speak Mandarin with some accent and sometimes just speak...

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