Beyond simply knowing two or more languages and dialects (or sign languages), being bilingual* offers a wide range of cognitive, cultural, and future benefits that make it a skill worth cultivating
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When learning languages, is the earlier the better?
Multilingual Parents are often keen to speak several languages with their children and can’t wait to introduce more languages. In the end: the sooner the better, right? Well, not really. If we shower our children with a lot of languages from early on, without them needing them it can become a challenge to maintain them. […]
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Multilingual Language Timelines
In our multilingual language timeline we can discover how many languages we have acquired or learned along the way.
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Dialects, standard languages and education
We all know that maintaining our mother tongue/father tongue, mother language/father language, heritage language is important to transmit our children a sense of belonging through this language, and to the culture that is attached to it. What if we want to transmit a dialect or regional variant? Especially families who raise their children abroad tend to […]
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What part of our language are we passing on to our children when living abroad?
When our children grow up abroad, outside of the country where our home languages are spoken, many of us tend to focus on standard language. We want our children to learn the most standardized version of our language. This has several reasons: we want our children to be able to understand and be […]
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