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
I say tomato, He says tomahto
Kids and languages My kids got a bit shafted on the mother-tongue front. Although they have dual citizenship, both my husband and I hail from English-speaking backgrounds. He
Foreign language training overseas
Learn a new language Learning a foreign language becomes much easier once you have arrived in your new country. You are constantly surrounded by the new sounds and
English as a foreign language?
“We don’t speak English, we speak American” Once upon a time I was in Costa Rica trying to buy an ice cream. A simple enough task, surely? However,
Time differences
How time is told in different parts of the world No, this article isn’t about time zones this time. This subject came up during a Facebook discussion on
Separated by a common language
A humorous look at language differences “My pants are too big!” At the weekend, my daughter had her American friend over to stay. While running up the stairs,
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
25 words that simply don’t exist in English
Wonderfully descriptive words from other languages This has been doing the rounds for a while and I thought it a great fit for this site as it demonstrates
Raising global nomads
Victoria Beckham I was panting away on an exercise bike the other day reading an article in Glamour with Victoria Beckham . No, I don’t mean Vicky was