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Should I Change Language Strategies Due to Language Limits?

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I’ve become concerned with the strategy my wife and I have taken with our son. Here is some background: Our son is 21 months old. My wife and I live in Canada and speak English with one another, this is our primary language. Our cultural background is Greek. Both sets of parents speak Greek fluently.

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Is it Too Late to Switch to My Mother Tongue?

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I come from Serbia and my mother tongue is obviously Serbian. I married a German and we live in Dubai where English is widely used. I do have an intermediate knowledge of German as well and my husband mostly speaks German with me. We have a 2 and a half year old son with whom [...]

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What Bilingualism Is NOT

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By Professor François Grosjean I have had the chance to live and work for extended periods of time in at least three countries, the United States, Switzerland and France, and as a researcher on bilingualism, it has allowed me to learn a lot about my topic of interest. I have found that people in these [...]

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Extracts from Bilingual: Life and Reality – Introduction

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It is our great honor at Multilingual Living to publish this series of extracts from Professor François Grosjean’s new book Bilingual: Life and Reality, which has been nominated for the Edward Sapir Book Prize 2010.  Prof. Grosjean knows intimately what he writes about: not only is he “one of the grand old men of research [...]

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Multilingualism & Disorders: How can I find a bilingual speech-language therapist where I live?

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Multilingualism is neither odd nor worrying: what is odd, and very worrying, are the views that persist about it. The topics in this Multilingualism & Disorders series aim at clarifying the misconceptions that associate multilingualism with disorders. Each topic offers a brief introduction to common questions, and includes one token reference, which either marks watershed [...]

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Multilingualism & Disorders: My Speech-Language Therapist Wants Me to Switch to One Language

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Multilingualism is neither odd nor worrying: what is odd, and very worrying, are the views that persist about it. The topics in this Multilingualism & Disorders series aim at clarifying the misconceptions that associate multilingualism with disorders. Each topic offers a brief introduction to common questions, and includes one token reference, which either marks watershed [...]

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Ask Harriet: My Spouse Doesn’t Speak My Language

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Dear Harriet, I am from Argentina and my husband is From the US. We have always spoken English together. Now we have a 6 month old baby, Maria, and I want to raise her bilingually. In theory my husband is in agreement but he doesn’t speak Spanish. I am worried if I speak only Spanish [...]

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