Parents who want to raise their children with more than one (or two) languages, often look for ways to make this work. A first step to find answers is to ask the right questions: What language should your child speak with whom, when and… why? Furthermore: Who else in your community speaks your language that […]
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Let’s talk about: Multilingual children and Speech Therapy – an interview with Millie Slavidou
Speech therapy and multilingual children is a topic that needs more attention and research, and speech therapists, teachers and health practitioners need to be more informed about it. When I shared articles and best practices about this in facebook groups, I had very interesting feedback and discussions on- and offline, and in personal chats. It […]
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French Online Resources
Here you can find a list of online resources to acquire and learn French. The first section is for children and the second for teenagers and adults. If you can recommend an online resource for French, please leave a comment here below: I’ll be happy to add it to the list! – Merci beaucoup à […]
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German Language Resources
If you want to help your children acquire and learn German, here are some resources online and “offline” (as in books etc.). I will regularly update this list and… wenn du selber eine gute Seite gefunden hast, die hier noch nicht aufgeführt ist, teile es mir bitte in einem Kommentar hier unten oder einer Email […]
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International Day of Multilingualism: 27 March
Together with a group of other linguists and language enthusiasts, we propose the 27th March as the International Day of Multilingualism. This is the day we want to embrace the variety of languages that we all hear, speak, read and write to different extents on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. Because more than half of […]
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