Mehrsprachigkeit ist in aller Munde. Gab es bis vor kurzem noch viele Vorbehalte gegen eine mehrsprachige Erziehung – man befürchtete, dass Kinder so weder die eine noch die andere Sprache richtig beherrschen würden –, so weiß man inzwischen, dass Mehrsprachigkeit allerlei positive Effekte auf das Sprechen, Denken und Handeln hat.
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Ute’s S.M.A.R.T. Family Language Plan©
With my S.M.A.R.T. Family Language Plan© you always know what to do next during your children’s and your own multilingual journey.
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Finger-counting across cultures
Finger-counting differs across cultures and can reveal your base language.
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Good reads for interculturalists
If you are looking for good reads for intercultural trainers, cross-cultural trainers or anyone who wants to support internationals, understand cultures and “bridge the gap”, here are a few of the readings I did during my training as Intercultural Communication Trainer. Brinkmann, Ursula and Oscar van Weerdenburg, Intercultural Readiness. Four competences for working across cultures, […]
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The importance of developing multilingual listening skills
Did it ever happen to you that people would ask you to repeat what you just said, not because they couldn’t hear you, but because they were incapable of understanding your way of speaking the language? Or maybe you have asked someone to repeat because you didn’t understand what the other person was saying – because […]
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