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Week in Review

Multilingual Living’s Week in Review – Sept 19

by Corey
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This is a review of the interesting articles, Tweets, Facebook posts and more which took place this week in and around our Multilingual Living universe. Thank you everyone for sharing your tips with me! Keep them coming!

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Getting Started

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

by Corey
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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
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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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The Speckled Band: Or Learning English with Sherlock Holmes

by Alice
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By Alice Lapuerta Originally appeared at the Bilingual/Bicultural Family Network in July 2006 Photo credit: Alterego “It was the band! The speckled band!!!” my mother read with dramatic intonation. My brothers and I huddled against her. I didn’t understand a word she said, but fidgeted around with excitement nevertheless. “Was ist das, ‘speckled band’?” we [...]

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Language Challenge 101

Language Challenge 101 – Week Six

by Corey
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¡Hola, amigos! Welcome to week six of Multilingual Living’s Language Challenge 101 – learning a language over the course of 101 days. If you missed our first few weeks, just click on the Language Challenge 101 button on the very left of this website page and you’ll find everything we have done so far.

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Families

I Before Me

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By Richard Middleton Photo Credit © Shannon McClendon The devil, as they say, is in the details. My two-year-old son, Karl, stands before me, arms up-stretched. “I pick you up and hold you,” he says. This does not mean what it seems to mean, he doesn’t want to scoop Daddy up in his arms. He [...]

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Language Challenge 101

Language Challenge 101 – Week Three

by Corey
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Welcome to week three of Multilingual Living’s Language Challenge 101 – learning a language over the course of 101 days.  If you missed our first few weeks, just click on the Language Challenge 101 button on the very left of this website page and you’ll find everything we have done so far.

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