Whenever there is a friend leaving, I choose to immerse into what I call a blanket of songs, tastes (thinking about the meals we had together) and… tears. It’s sad, but there is something sweet in this too: we make place for the grieve. Every person who comes into our life and leaves it again, […]
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Can we help our children feel that they belong?
Whenever I speak with parents of children who grow up internationally, this topic comes up: how can we help our children to feel that they belong? I know about this struggle myself. I grew up abroad with features that were not “local” and, although I spoke the local language like a native speaker, I felt […]
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Plurilingual and Multilingual
WHY PLURILINGUAL? WHY MULTILINGUAL?… In addition to bilingual or bilingualism, which are terms extensively used in the past 50ish years, the terms multilingualism and plurilingualism are increasingly used as (quasi-)synonyms, but they are not… The term of plurilingual is rather used to define a person, whereas the term of multilingual is used to define a country or […]
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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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What is your maths language?
When our children are schooled in another language since the beginning, their most dominant language for counting and doing maths is the school language.
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