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When Should We Start Teaching Our Bilingual Child to Read in Our Home Language?

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Dear Madalena, I am British, my husband is Spanish and we live in Spain. We have two boys (aged 5 and 3) who go to a Spanish speaking school. Since they were babies, I have always spoken English and my husband in Spanish, which seems to work very well as they both understand and speak [...]

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How Can I Help a Bilingual Child Who Is Not Proficient in Either Language?

by Corey
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Dear Madalena, I am  kindergarten teacher and I have a student who’s parents only speak Spanish, but they believed she shouldn’t learn Spanish, so they just let her older sister speak to her in English. She went to preschool, where she picked up some more English. The problem is, she is not proficient in either [...]

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How Can We Help Our Adopted Child Become Bilingual?

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Dear Madalena, We just recently brought home our 16 mo. old daughter from China.  We live in Germany.  My husband is German.  We have one daughter, who is bilingual in English and German.  We speak English at home but German outside the household. Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with the bilingualism [...]

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How Can I Help an ELL Child Feel Comfortable with His Culture & Accent?

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Dear Madalena, I am tutoring a Nepalese Kindergarten student. He has been in the US for about one year; and he had some basic English knowledge before he came here. I was chosen as his tutor, because I am ESL myself (I don’t have much of an accent, but I can relate). He seems very [...]

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What Is the Best Language Approach for Bilingual Parents to Use with Their Children?

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Dear Madalena, My husband and I both speak English but I am bilingual and speak German as well.  I would like to teach my son German, he is 19 months old.  What is the best way for me to do this?  I have been thinking of speaking German with him every morning and then English [...]

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Can Multilingualism Cause Behavior Problems?

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Dear Madalena, We are bringing up a trilingual little boy of 2.5 years old. I am Greek, my husband is English and our son attends a Norwegian nursery (we have been living in Norway for the past 2 years). Our son has been separating his languages well for a few months now and hardly brings [...]

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When Is a Child Ready to Learn a Third Language?

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Dear Madalena, I’m from the US and I live in Chile with my husband who is Chilean.  I speak English with our son who just turned three and my husband speaks Spanish with him (we speak Spanish between the two of us). We want to put our son in a German-speaking playgroup, but the speech [...]

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