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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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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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Award

We Won the Multilingual Matters Award for Multilingualism in the Community!

by Corey
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Multilingual Living is delighted to announce that we won the 2010 Multilingual Matters Award for Multilingualism in the Community! I cannot even begin to tell you what an honor it is to win this award from such a respected group of multilingual experts.

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Multilingual Musings

The Future of Multilingualism: Warp Speed Ahead Scotty!

by Corey
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By Corey Heller Photo credit: Matías Ferreyra We have now officially entered 2011.  It feels quite a bit like 2010, at least here in Seattle.  However, things aren’t the same.  We are one year closer to our multilingual future. I can still remember the night my husband and I sat on the sofa in our [...]

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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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Families

Passing the Bilingual Blame – That’s Not My Poop!

by Corey
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By Corey Heller A while back I was exercising in my husband’s office (the home of my beloved elliptical trainer) while my son Patrick was bouncing endlessly below me on a mattress left over from our recent family visits. A box of my husband’s Physics papers falls from the mattress to the floor. Oooops! My [...]

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