Please find a list of resources you can use to foster Arabic at home. As Arabic is a language I still don’t master (yet), I invite you to share other links to sites that provide resources to teach Arabic – understanding, speaking, reading, writing – for children from 0-18 yo, and also for adults, in […]
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How to deal with different coping styles
When Carolyn Parse Rizzo from Interval Coaching talked about coping styles on the FIGT (Families in Global Transition) facebook group, I thought about what coping styles my family and I have. We may all experience that family members, friends, colleagues etc. are dealing with the current COVID19 situation, or any kind of difficult and unforeseeable […]
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How to cope with this new situation
There are many posts and articles reporting what we should do and what we should avoid during the time that many of us are facing right now. Many families here in Europe are going to stay indoors, at home, in the next weeks. If we are home with children, trying to get some work done, […]
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Code Switching and Code Mixing
Before explaining how the terms of code-switching and code-mixing are used, what they mean, let’s have a look at the history of the term of code-switching. Where does the term of code-switching come from? The first one introducing the metaphor of a language switch, i.e. the changing from one language to another during a conversation, […]
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新语言习得的5个阶段 / 5 Stages of additional Language Acquisition
If your child is acquiring Chinese as an additional language, you may find this infographic useful. Thanks to Yu Xun, a young intern at Ute’s International Lounge, and Amanda, owner of Miss Panda, my infographic 5 Stages of Additional Language Acquisition got translated into Chinese. Following an interesting discussion with some clients and members of my […]
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