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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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 I am discovering more and more audio resources (audiobooks, songs, stories, podcasts), I thought I’d to share some audio resources […]
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4 communication styles in (multilingual) children
We all have different communication styles. And so do our children.Parents often assume (or expect) that their children will have their same communication style, but that is not as simple.
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How to portray, feel and explain language use for a multilingual
[updated 12 December 2023] When we use more languages either on a daily or regular basis, or across our lifespan, we might not be aware that the languages who “stand in the foreground” can shift into the background at some point. When we grow up surrounded by language yellow, blue and green[1] in the first […]
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