bilingualism

Celebrations

Happy Holidays from Multilingual Living!

by Corey

 

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Families

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

by Corey
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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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Families

The ABC’s of Multilingual Parenting: The Letter B

by Corey
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B is for BELIEVE in yourself and your abilities! This is no time to start second guessing your strengths and focusing on your weaknesses. Come up with a plan and see how it goes. If you tell yourself that you can’t do it for any of a number of reasons, then you are setting a [...]

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Week in Review

Multilingual Living’s Week in Review: February 20

by Corey
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This is a review of the articles, Tweets, Facebook posts and more which went out this week in and around our Multilingual Living universe. Thank you everyone for sharing your tips, tweets, emails and more with me! Were it not for you, this post wouldn’t even be here! Bilingual Brain Research This was the week [...]

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Celebrations

International Mother Language Day

by Corey
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Photo/poster credit: UNESCO It is that time of year again! The 2011 International Mother Language Day is this coming Monday, February 21st, and people around the world are gearing up in their own ways to celebrate this day. What will you be doing to celebrate the 2011 International Mother Language Day? This year UNESCO is [...]

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Families

The ABC’s of Multilingual Parenting: The Letter A

by Corey
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A is for ASK Questions! Find reliable experts and supportive families and ask as many questions as you can. You need to be as prepared as possible so get into the habit of asking other bilingual and multilingual families what is and is not working for them.

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Book Extracts

Extracts from Bilingual: Life and Reality – Introduction, Part Two

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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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