by Ute Limacher-Riebold and Ana Elisa Miranda What has being a multilingual family to do with how to travel light? Have you ever packed a backpack in the wrong way? Made it too heavy, causing you back pain; brought the wrong or unnecessary things, making it difficult to reach what you actually needed, quickly […]
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Do multilinguals have multiple personalities?
Why do people assume that multilinguals have multiple personalities? Having multiple personalities is a disorder, being multilingual is not!
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4 communication styles in (multilingual) children
We all have different communication styles. And so do our children.Parents often assume (or expect) that their children will have their same communication style, but that is not as simple.
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How to portray, feel and explain language use for a multilingual
[updated 12 December 2023] When we use more languages either on a daily or regular basis, or across our lifespan, we might not be aware that the languages who “stand in the foreground” can shift into the background at some point. When we grow up surrounded by language yellow, blue and green[1] in the first […]
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How to adjust your international language
When I saw this interview with Roger Federer the other day, I couldn’t resist but share it in my facebook group Multilingual Families. It is a perfect example for why, when we use our language in international settings, we shouldn’t assume that sayings, metaphors (and abbreviations!) are universal. https://twitter.com/thefield_in/status/1409944054020722693?s=20 In this particular example, […]
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