Raising a bilingual child

Raising a bilingual child doesn’t have to be a big deal The best way to raise a bilingual child is to talk a lot and worry very little.

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How to raise bilingual kids

A guide to raising bilingual children Improving language skills at any stage in life is always a good idea. It can lead to greater career opportunities and can

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Third Culture Kids: our global future?

Who are Third Culture Kids? In the first exploration into the ‘imagined community’ of Expatria we established some of its key statistical contours, a rudimental mapping of a

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Does being bilingual make you brainy?

How the brain benefits from being bilingual – Infographic The brain benefits immensely from speaking two or more languages from improved cognitive skills, to developing denser grey matter,

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What to expect from a bilingual kindergarten

What to expect from a bilingual kindergarten For almost 4 months now, LJ has been attending a German bilingual kindergarten. In Germany, children normally go to kindergarten (Kita)

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Home-school your bilingual child

Send to school or home-educate? Oh my! What am I doing? Non-native mum seeks to raise her kids bilingually (ESP-UK) at home!? The letter has come back from

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Raising bilingual children wherever you live

When you cannot, or choose not to, move abroad As I watched a recent episode of ‘A Place in the Sun’, ‘Home and Away’ or ‘Winter Sun’ I

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Can our worldview be “multiple”?

Expat attitudes I moved to Denmark not so long ago and was missing one of my best friends from back home. But then a few months later she

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Raising multilingual children

Multilingual children When we moved from London to Geneva four years ago, Eldest Son was 3 years-old. Although I’d been speaking to him in Italian since he was

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