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Being a bilingual / multilingual family
I was wondering about what to name this blog post. Are we being a multilingual family, or are we becoming a multilingual family? Maybe we are always becoming? Reading time at home means books in a mix...
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Celebrate Your Mother Tongue
Today, February 21, is International Mother Language Day. This day was proclaimed by UNESCO “to promote the preservation and protection of all languages used by peoples of the world”. The date...
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Bilingual and bicultural: do they go together?
Bicultural means that two cultures are functioning in one person, or that one person can be active in two cultures. As we move between two, sometimes three languages in our family, I often wonder if we...
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Learning another language after turning 40
This blog post was written as part of the Raising Multilingual Children Blogging Carnival for July. The topic for this month’s carnival is “Hidden Opportunities”. I wondered for a long time what is my...
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Making peace with our language journey
I had big ideals when our girls were born. They would be bilingual, bicultural, and able to read, write and speak two languages fluently (Afrikaans and English). Later we added Spanish to the mix. The...
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Singing our way to 3 languages
We are a bilingual family, trying to become trilingual. Our kids are fluent in Afrikaans, even though they were born here in the USA and don’t hear Afrikaans outside of our house on a regular basis....
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September Blogging Carnival: Raising Multilingual Children
Welcome to the September installment of the Multilingual Blogging Carnival! I’m glad to be hosting this month, after Perogies & Gyoza did a wonderful job last month putting our stories together....
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