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By: Valera

Valera — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:09:19 +0000

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By: Lillis Ó Laoire

Lillis Ó Laoire — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 06:47:38 +0000

These insights are really important for minority communities where language rebellion can be a real factor in changing the language of a whole community.

By: Henry Collins

Henry Collins — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:46:38 +0000

Teaching kids about cultural diversity and the importance of learning and practicing more than one language can help. We need to present it as something “cool” so kids can feel motivated towards learning and practicing a newly acquired language.

By: Edna

Edna — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:31:26 +0000

I have raised trilingual children to college level with equal language ability in all three languages. I think the key is: language is communication. Children will not speak a language that is not needed for communication. Therefore if there is not two adults speaking this language, they will very quickly and naturally discontinue it. I have found however that a language will be continued if it is a language associated with „cuddling and comfort“ even when it is not needed for communication. A language on the other hand may be discontinued if not associated with comfort, especially with distress or culture shock. I therefore suggest consciously generate comfy situations with each language and make sure that the child regularly experiences adults communicating in each language with each other. For us, it was food for Mandarin Chinese, reading story books/later novels every evening for German and watching movies for English. Also crucial is: every grownup sticks to their code towards the child. Do not keep changing languages, even in public… (I ended up speaking German to all kids wherever they were from. And gee, no one ever complained…)

By: Diego

Diego — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 20:42:43 +0000

Great article. I was very engaged with my son’s Spanish when he was little. When we had twin girls after him, it was harder to maintain the previous discipline. We were fortunate that our three kids went to a bilingual school, and my daughter’s Spanish improved considerably.

By: Luciana

Luciana — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:54:46 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing this article. I’ve absolutely loved the vase metaphor. I’m raising my daughter bilingual and I can relate to the stories mentioned in this post.