For many multilingual families, motivating our children to read in a minority language can be difficult. Making sure our children read and write, as well as speak, our home language(s) is important. However, it can sometimes feel impossible to interest our children in books in our language(s). Maybe they find the books too difficult to …
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“Having your child learn two languages at the same time will confuse them, won’t it?” “You know that teaching your child multiple languages is just going to cause a speech delay?” Have you heard these assertions too? These are common questions that many of us raising bilingual kids hear. The answer is “No” to all of …
In the United States, we lag behind in foreign language learning compared to many other countries. From Europe to Africa, there are many countries where there is more than one official language and the local citizens learn and use multiple languages in the home, in school, and at work. Help your children learn a foreign …
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Did you ever play the game “Telephone” as a kid? One person whispers a sentence into the second person’s ear. Then, they whisper what they heard to the third person and so on and so on. Before you know it, “We love to vacation in Spain” turns into “We always eat tacos when it’s raining.” …
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As a Chinese-American married to an Irish-American, my kids rarely have an opportunity to hear Chinese spoken around our home. I grew up in a Chinese-speaking home, went to Chinese school until 9th Grade, visited Taiwan a few times and took Chinese classes there, yet I no longer have many chances to speak the language …