General Multilingualism

My Husband Teaches Physics in a Non-Native Language – Because He Can

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By Corey Heller Photo credit: Waifer X My husband was born in Germany and attended German public schools. He started learning English in 5th grade and continued all through school. His teachers often had German accents when they spoke English and it is possible they made mistakes from time to time. But he learned English [...]

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Celebrations

Top Ten 2012 New Year’s Resolutions for Multilingual Families

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Is your family’s multilingualism going along smoothly? Everyone chatting away in the minority languages? Fantastic! Stick with it in 2012! For the rest of us, here are some top 10 New Year’s Resolutions you’ll want to have for 2012. Let’s start the countdown…

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Global Traditions: What You Eat to Welcome in New Year Matters!

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In many cultures around the world, it is believed that what you eat as part of your New Year’s celebration will bring good luck or wealth or success or more! Below is a list of foods that have special meanings in different countries. Do you follow any of these traditions? Many believe that anything in [...]

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Expert Advice

Top 10 Ways We Sabotage Our Children’s Bilingualism

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By Corey Heller Photo credit: Leonid Mamchenkov As parents of bilingual children, we talk about our children’s language skills a lot. We examine vocabulary and grammar, syntax and pronunciation. We worry about speech impediments and language delays. We tell others that  our children can speak the community language perfectly but secretly wonder if they are [...]

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Celebrations

Happy Holidays from Multilingual Living!

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Celebrations

Holidays at the Heller’s: Cookies/Kekse

by Corey
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My husband baked these the other day. Do you recognize them? The ends were dipped in chocolate after this photo was taken. Can you identify the two important & “magical” ingredients? They are both hard to find in the United States! (I found a few packs of one of special ingredient at IKEA the other [...]

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Families

10 Things to AVOID Saying to Your International In-Laws This Holiday Season

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By Corey Heller Photo credit: istockphoto.com Are you in an international marriage? Are you going to be visiting your spouse’s family this holiday season? For many of us, this will be a wonderful time of sharing food, stories and laughter. For others it will be frustrating, uncomfortable and nervewracking. Whether you are looking forward to [...]

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