My work with multilingual families is grounded in the conviction that multilingual development can only be understood when languages are seen in relation to each other, to life domains, and to lived experience.
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Back home with your multilingual children? How to make it easy for you!
Here are my 2 cents or 5 tips about how to make our children’s full immersion experience in their home languages more effective and less stressful for us. You can also read the caption in the video should you not want to watch it with audio.
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Musings about Multilinguals: Early Simultaneous Multilinguals across the Lifespan
When talking about bilinguals or multilinguals (or plurilinguals), most terms are tailored to people who use two languages or maybe three. What about multilinguals? When we grow up with multiple languages we learn or acquire new ones in a different way than those who grow up with one or two languages. In this post I share my thoughts about this and suggest some terms to use…
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Language use in multilingual families during lockdown
When we all went into our first lockdown due to COVID19 last year, I published a short video for multilingual families who do NOT speak the community language at home, about how to keep up with the school or community languages during lockdown. Especially for very young children who maybe just started daycare, spending more time […]
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Infant Communication Baby Sign Language with Multilingual Children
When I first heard about baby sign language, my children were already verbal. Here in Europe it seems not as common to teach babies and infants signs if they are not deaf growing up with deaf parents. I have since read about this and met families who have taught their babies how to sign words […]
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