language exposure

Extracts from Bilingual: Life and Reality – Chapter 17

by Corey

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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Getting Started

Bilingual Children with One Hour of Language a Day – Part Two

by Corey

By Corey Heller Photo credit: John Millard As I outline in the first article, Bilingual Children with One Hour of Language a Day – Part One, language learning isn’t really so very different from financial investing: We start off with some basic words and inspiration (initial investment), then each day we add a little more [...]

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Getting Started

Bilingual Children with One Hour of Language a Day – Part One

by Corey

By Corey Heller Photo credit: John Millard Have you heard of compound interest? The worldwide financial crises aside, experts say that compound interest can make us millionaires by the time we retire if we take advantage of it correctly. It goes without saying that it is completely dependent upon how much money we invest initially, [...]

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How Should We Communicate With Our Baby to Ensure She Will Become Bilingual?

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My wife Erika and I just had our first baby girl, and we are very excited! Erika is from Peru, and speaks fluent Spanish and speaks decent to fairly good English (depending on the situation) and is taking reading and writing classes to improve her skills. I am a native English speaker and I also [...]

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Ask François Grosjean: Is It OK for Parents to Raise Bilingual Children in a Non-Native Language?

by Corey

While Prof. Emeritus François Grosjean was working on his wonderful book Bilingual: Life and Reality, he asked me to send him a list of questions that I felt weighed the heaviest on the minds of parents raising multilingual children. It is my honor to present both my questions and Prof. Grosjean’s answers here at Multilingual [...]

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Activities

Language Activity: Time For Car ABC’s

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This fun activity was sent in to us by Christiane. As many of us find ourselves driving here and there in the car, it is a great time to enhance our children’s language exposure and skills! Try the following activity and let us know how it goes!

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