Comments on: Language use in multilingual families during lockdown https://utesinternationallounge.com/language-use-in-multilingual-families-during-lockdown/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=language-use-in-multilingual-families-during-lockdown Empowering Multilingual Families, Bridging Cultures, Fostering Global Communication Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:08:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ute Limacher https://utesinternationallounge.com/language-use-in-multilingual-families-during-lockdown/comment-page-1/#comment-7850 Mon, 03 May 2021 13:09:51 +0000 https://utesinternationallounge.com/?p=13751#comment-7850 In reply to Yoko.

Thank you, Yoko, for sharing your experience with you languages in CA during lockdown. It is, indeed, fantastic how publishers made books available for free online during the past year! Libraries were very inventive with their services: some even organized book readings “through the window” here in the Netherlands. Not only for children, but also for the elderly, which had a very beneficial effect on so many levels!
I hear you about reading helping our children stay “sane” during these times. I observe the same in my children and in myself actually too. I have never read as many books as in this past year. As the situation is different around the world – like I mention in the post, some are in their 3rd lockdown, others struggle considerably with the infections, while others can already meet in person… – I would be curious to know how you will manage this summer. Please keep me informed and, give your children a pat on the back (and yourself too!)

]]> By: Yoko https://utesinternationallounge.com/language-use-in-multilingual-families-during-lockdown/comment-page-1/#comment-7838 Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:20:28 +0000 https://utesinternationallounge.com/?p=13751#comment-7838 Hi Ute, this is a very timely and relevant article for many multilingual families. I live in the U.S., small city in CA, where the closure of school campuses continued more than a year! My family speak Japanese at home, and the school language is English. My kids are older, the youngest being 6th grade, but still it was an enormous challenge. But once a week Japanese school was offered online throughout the lockdown, which kept the pace, and more anime and other media in Japanese was available online. A lot of Japanese publishers made various books available for free online when they were first hit by the pandemic. Our local library was a great resource too. Their digital library was literally a treasure. My kids love to read so that helped their sanity, especially the new book by Shannon Messenger in the fall was a savior! I also encouraged my kids to continue their other lessons online, both in English and Japanese (it just happened that way!). Our next challenge is this summer, I think…

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