If you want to help your children acquire and learn German, here are some resources online and “offline” (as in books etc.). I will regularly update this list and… wenn du selber eine gute Seite gefunden hast, die hier noch nicht aufgeführt ist, teile es mir bitte in einem Kommentar hier unten oder einer Email […]
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International Day of Multilingualism: 27 March
Together with a group of other linguists and language enthusiasts, we propose the 27th March as the International Day of Multilingualism. This is the day we want to embrace the variety of languages that we all hear, speak, read and write to different extents on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. Because more than half of […]
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Sending children to Dutch schools (article in ACCESS magazine March 2019)
When moving to the Netherlands with family, one of the first things internationals want to find is a school for their children. Although very mobile families tend to prefer international schools, but more and more choose to send their children to local schools. In this article for ACCESS magazine (issue Spring 2019) I shared some aspects […]
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International Mother Language Day
The 21rst of February is the day all those who are involved in multilingualism, whether personally or professionally, share ways on how to support “mother languages” in their community. I personally would rather prefer the term of “home languages” as it includes the father-language and all other languages that are fostered at home.
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