Whenever there is a friend leaving, I choose to immerse into what I call a blanket of songs, tastes (thinking about the meals we had together) and… tears. It’s sad, but there is something sweet in this too: we make place for the grieve. Every person who comes into our life and leaves it again, […]
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Can we help our children feel that they belong?
Whenever I speak with parents of children who grow up internationally, this topic comes up: how can we help our children to feel that they belong? I know about this struggle myself. I grew up abroad with features that were not “local” and, although I spoke the local language like a native speaker, I felt […]
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Plurilingual and Multilingual
WHY PLURILINGUAL? WHY MULTILINGUAL?… In addition to bilingual or bilingualism, which are terms extensively used in the past 50ish years, the terms multilingualism and plurilingualism are increasingly used as (quasi-)synonyms, but they are not… The term of plurilingual is rather used to define a person, whereas the term of multilingual is used to define a country or […]
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Research Projects about Bi- and Multilingualism
Research projects (past and present) Here you can find a list of projects around plurilingual (or multilingual) living. I will update it regularly. If you want me to add your project or a project you consider important, please mail me at info@UtesInternationalLounge.com or leave a comment with the name and link to the project site in […]
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5 Stages of Additional Language Acquisition
When children learn another language after having acquired their first language or languages, they go through different stages that can vary from child to child and depend of how similar the additional language is to those the children already know. This infographic shows 5 stages that 3 to 8 year olds can go through when […]
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