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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For years, I’ve been searching for a good way to get my kids more exposure to Polish. There is a Saturday school in the Hague but I can think of approximately a million ways I’d rather be spending my weekends than schlepping my kids by tram to the other end of the city on a …
5 Things to Consider when Choosing a Minority Language Online School Read More »
For most bilingual children who attend school in the majority language, long school days, homework, and extra-curricular activities mean there is often little time for minority language activities before bedtime. As parents aiming to bring up bilingual or multilingual children, once school starts it can feel as if the majority language has a monopoly on our …
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Welcome to the Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop! The Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop is a place where bloggers can share multicultural activities, crafts, recipes, and musings for our creative kids. We can’t wait to see what you share this time! Created by Frances of Discovering the World through My Son’s Eyes, the blog hop …
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The advice targeted to bilingual families deals very often with the things the minority language speaker could and should do to pass on the heritage language to his or her children. Even before our children were born, we had figured out lots of things that my husband Gilles (the only French speaker in our house …
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