If your child is acquiring Chinese as an additional language, you may find this infographic useful. Thanks to Yu Xun, a young intern at Ute’s International Lounge, and Amanda, owner of Miss Panda, my infographic 5 Stages of Additional Language Acquisition got translated into Chinese. Following an interesting discussion with some clients and members of my […]
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Sensible and sensitive – in French and English
Like many people who regularly use more than one language, I have some words I use in an incorrect way because the same – or similar – form of the word has a different meaning in another language I speak. Native speakers would probably not make those mistakes, but I personally consider them as an […]
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First multilingual non-verbal communication milestones
When children grow up with multiple languages they not only acquire words from different languages, they also learn different gestures.
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How we learn and memorize new words
Everyone has a very personal way to learn a language. Some of us just learn by repeating what they hear, others need to learn the structure, the grammar in order to consolidate the new language. Every new word that we hear does make a long way to land eventually in our long term memory. When […]
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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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