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Multilingual Family: Winter Language Learning

by Corey
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Multilingual Living has been a little quiet lately. If you have been wondering why, it is because we have been busy using a whole bunch of words that we rarely use in Seattle. Words that have to do with this: and this:

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Top 10 Ways We Sabotage Our Children’s Bilingualism

by Corey
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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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Biliteracy: Bilingual Children Can Learn to Read in Any Language

by Corey
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By Corey Heller Use the Hieroglyphic Typewriter to decode the image above. The interesting thing about teaching our bilingual children to read is that we are often more worried about the details than they are. We furrow our brow and tense up our muscles when we think about how to explain to our children that [...]

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Are DVDs and a Native-Speaking Babysitter Enough Language Exposure?

by Madalena
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Dear Madalena, I am the mother of two beautiful children 3 years and 18 months. I am absolutely determined to raise them bilingually in English and Italian. Both of us parents are Italian and we live in Rome. I would say that both of our kids are already bilingual (with the help of my poor [...]

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How Can We Help Our Adopted Child Become Bilingual?

by Madalena
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Dear Madalena, We just recently brought home our 16 mo. old daughter from China.  We live in Germany.  My husband is German.  We have one daughter, who is bilingual in English and German.  We speak English at home but German outside the household. Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with the bilingualism [...]

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The ABCs of Multilingual Parenting: The Letter M

by Corey
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M is for… Masterminding! They say that children are like language sponges. But is this really true? Do children just sit in a room passively listening to what is around them and pick up everything without lifting a finger? No! Children learn languages as well as they do because they are engaged, involved, curious and [...]

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If a Child Is Autistic, Should a Multilingual Family Switch to One Language?

by Corey
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My husband and I live in Manchester, England and have a 2.5 year old daughter.  I’m Russian and my husband is Turkish, neither of us speak each other’s language fluently, so speak English together. When our daughter was born, I kept on talking to her in Russian, and my husband is talking to her in [...]

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