Yoshito from Multilingual_dad (on Instagram) interviewed me about my multilingual journey and how I raise my children with multiple languages and cultures. We talk about how to manage multiple languages, the sense of identity – in which language and culture or languages and cultures (plural!) we and our children feel mostly “at home” – […]
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The importance of gestures in the language development of babies and infants
Babies start communicating with us from day one. The sounds they utter will become increasable intelligible: from cooing, to babbling, to monosyllable, bi-syllables up to sentences. The journey of language development in babies and infants is quick and has many facets. What many parents forget to consider is that gestures play an important role in […]
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A reading pen for multilingual families
When Joie shared with me her project of creating a tool for multilingual families that would make reading to their children easier, I was hooked. For parents to record their own voices while reading their children’s books in all their languages was something I wished existed when my children were toddlers! Especially the possibility for […]
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Literacy skills and music: how our children learn to think in words or sentences
When parents ask me how to help their not verbal children start speaking I usually suggest techniques that involve music. The same goes with literacy skills. Musical notes and a free style of representing music and the spoken word can help our children understand how language works. How language can be “translated” into sounds, and […]
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Infant Communication Baby Sign Language with Multilingual Children
When I first heard about baby sign language, my children were already verbal. Here in Europe it seems not as common to teach babies and infants signs if they are not deaf growing up with deaf parents. I have since read about this and met families who have taught their babies how to sign words […]
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