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Top 10 Excuses We Like to Give for NOT Learning a Language

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By Corey Heller Photo credit: Mattastic! Excuses, procrastination, avoidance… we all know these: Not enough time. Too many distractions. Life is simply too hectic. Over the years I have uttered my own excuses for not working on my foreign language skills (and I still do!). I know that it is simply a matter of priorities [...]

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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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Families

Why Don’t My Bilingual Children Care? Blame the Daycare Lady!

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By Corey Heller Over and over again I hear parents of multilingual children around the world sigh in frustration when they talk about their efforts. Day in and day out, week after week, year after year we do what we can to raise our children multilingually and multiculturally but it feels like we are having [...]

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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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Multiculturalism

Why an Italian Laborer Lives Better Than an American Executive

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By Jennifer Planeta Photo credit: Knick Flanigan I’ve never really thought of the United States as being defined as a “class/caste” society.  America is the land of promise.  If you work hard enough the sky is the limit for your success.  Here, our lot in life isn’t defined so much by what we are born [...]

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Multiculturalism

Reaching Out to Linguistically-Challenged Couples: A Personal Manifesto

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By Alex Poole Photo Credit: Andrea Fregnani Bilingual couples aren’t so exotic anymore. I can count at least a dozen of them in my area (Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA), most of which involve one native speaker of English.  This fact probably comes as no surprise to those of you who are part of a bi/multilingual [...]

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The School Director Disagrees with Raising Children Bilingually

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By Isabelle Lazonde My son is 5 now but when he was 2 it was suspected he had a learning difficulty. He didn’t speak much and the words took a while to get out. We were worried naturally. I speak English to him and my husband French, given those are our native languages. On starting [...]

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