Even though we live in a world whose population is more than half bilingual; parents wanting to raise bilingual children are often told not to. The comments we receive at …
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This month we interviewed Aysh from Jeddah Mom to learn about her successes and challenges in raising a multilingual family in Saudia Arabia.
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This whole situation that we are in right now with Covid-19 and confinement has had both a positive and a negative side for our bilingual / multilingual children. This in-home situation has made our ideal language strategy come to life but has also forced us to speak the majority language of French a little more than we usually do!
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This month, we interviewed Liza and her family living in Norway about the challenges and successes they encounter in raising their multilingual children in Greek, Norwegian and English!
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Multilingual Family Interview for January 2019
This month, we interviewed Khadijah (@thekidspart) and her trilingual (English, Arabic, and Sindhi) family who live in Ireland.
Khadijah who has a unique background, is half English/Irish/ Singaporean and her husband is Pakistani. They have three kids that they are currently homeschooling.
One of their language challenges is the lack of reading materials available in Sindhi but a success is her son being able to read Arabic books from a young age. -
Today, we interview Nina and her British/Spanish family. Her son is learning English, Castellano and Valencio Spanish. Nina’s son was diagnosed on the autism spectrum when he was younger and there may have been challenges along the way. But with the success of him going from being non-verbal to speaking three languages is really wonderful and awesome. One of his favorite activities is drawing in his sketchbook.
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Today, I am going to share five books that I think every bilingual family should have in their house. Recently, I have been reading more and more about bilingualism and multi-language learning in order to share more tips and activities with other multilingual families as well as my own.
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Kawthar and her Algerian / Polish family live in the UK. Today she shares their challenges and successes in a honest multilingual family interview.
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Story telling fosters creative thinking, improves language skills and teaches presentation skills. It is very important that we encourage our children to story tell no matter how far fetched the tale may seem!