Not everyone knows that December 15th is International Tea Day. I hadn’t known it myself if it weren’t for the fact that we had such a great post about coffee and since I am a tea drinker, I thought I’d check. Wikipedia explains: “International Tea Day is a day observed since 2005 in many tea …
I try to make sure that we eat something different every day, so our multicultural meal plan is very varied. For example if we had meat one day, the next meal will be vegetarian. Or if we had Indian food one day, we’ll have something Polish the next. One day, something cooked, the next-something baked, …
Raising children in a multicultural environment is great: the children will learn that speaking different languages, having various customs and traditions, or different skin colours is normal. But not everybody lives in a place where that is the case. And for some more than for others, teaching cultural appreciation to children in a non-diverse environment …
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I think a lot about what it takes to really learn a language because I am raising my own children with no less than three of them, but also because I find it absolutely fascinating. My experience is that there are several things children (and adults!) need to speak a new tongue. 1) Talent Each child is different. Some …
