Children love cartoons, movies, games and we all know that the villains, the “bad guys” are not only characterized by features that make them unpleasant, but also by foreign accents. Sociolinguist Calvin Gidney started to study language patterns in animated kid’s entertainment after noticing that Mufasa had an American accent, whereas Scar, the lion of the […]
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How to play the Category game across languages and age groups
The category game, known as Stadt–Land-Fluß in German, in Italiano si chiama nome, cose città en français c’est le jeu du baccalauréat, ou jeu du bac, ou petit bac – En español es el juego tutti frutti o también conocido como Stop, Alto el Lápiz, Chanton, Pare carrito, Autopencil, Bachillerato y Basta – y em […]
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Podcasts and audio material for multilingual children
Many of us are spending way more time on screen than necessary. We all would benefit from “off screen time” (funny that I share this in a post that you can only read… online). As there are countless audio resources (audiobooks, songs, stories, podcasts), I thought I’d share some of them that can help our […]
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3 tips to travel light as a multilingual family
by Ute Limacher-Riebold and Ana Elisa Miranda What has being a multilingual family to do with how to travel light? Have you ever packed a backpack in the wrong way? Made it too heavy, causing you back pain; brought the wrong or unnecessary things, making it difficult to reach what you actually needed, quickly […]
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Do multilinguals have multiple personalities?
Why do people assume that multilinguals have multiple personalities? Having multiple personalities is a disorder, being multilingual is not!
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