I’ve been reading various blogs about multilingual upbringing and I see a lot of people voicing their concerns about the fact that their multilingual child is taking longer to start speaking than his peers.
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Multilingual child starting to speak later than unilingual peers – Don’t worry! Learn this word: PATIENCE…
Posted in bilingual, Language Development, Life, Raising a multilingual child, Thoughts, Thoughts on multiple languages and our brain, Trilingual, tagged language progression, observing understanding, speaking later and personality, started speaking at 2 years old, timing of learning to walk linked to personality of children, toddler personality, toddler starting to speak later than peers on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s going to be interesting – a trip to Grand-Mere, Quebec
Posted in bilingual, Language Development, Life, Quebec, Raising a multilingual child, Trilingual, tagged baby on airplane, Grand-Mere, language experience, Quebec, traveling with baby, trip with baby on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are leaving for Quebec at the end of this week. In case you were wondering: yes, that’s actually the name of a place in Quebec, where our daughter’s Grandma happens to live:) Sometimes I wish I could just relocate our house a few thousand kilometers to the East. Traveling light with a baby is [...]
In my experience as a child of multiple languages the dominance of one of the languages in our brains depends on which one we are most immersed in at any given time
Posted in bilingual, Language Development, Raising a multilingual child, Thoughts, Thoughts on multiple languages and our brain, Trilingual, tagged dominant language, French, German, Hungarian, language immersion, languages, retraining muscles on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t worry about which language is more dominant than the others. In my own experience it always depends on which one I was most immersed in at any given time. Or which one I was WILLING to be immersed in.
Books on our human side…
Posted in bilingual, Books, Daycare, Life, Raising a multilingual child, Thoughts on multiple languages and our brain, Trilingual, tagged Books, brain development, children, Excuse Me, family, Hold on to Your Kids, kids, Life, love, multiple language acquisition, relationships, spiritual, The Five Love Languages of Children, The Peaceful Warrior, The Scientist in the Crib, The Secret Spiritual World of Children, Your Life is Waiting on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some of the readings I enjoyed on kids, family, relationships and life: The Scientist in the Crib – What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind by Alison Gopnik, Ph.D, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Ph.D. and Patricia K. Kuhl, Ph.D.
Daily activities to promote a second or third language and its culture
Posted in bilingual, Our days with our daughter, Raising a multilingual child, Trilingual, tagged bilingual, children, cook recipes, daily activities, different cultures, family, history, multilingual, multiple languages, nursary rhymes, parenting, pen-pal, personal history, raising our child trilingual, second language acquisition, sing songs, three languages, Trilingual, youtube on October 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You don’t have to be a native speaker to raise your kids with multiple languages
Posted in bilingual, Raising a multilingual child, Trilingual, tagged foreign language, mother tongue, multiple languages, native speaker, pay it forward, pronunciation, second language, second language teachers on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I would like to raise a very important point here: The language you would like to teach your child does not necessarily have to be your mother tongue.
I wonder if being exposed to multiple languages early on wires the brain to make faster connections between languages
Posted in bilingual, Raising a multilingual child, Thoughts on multiple languages and our brain, Trilingual, tagged brain, connection between languages, connections, multilingual, multiple languages, non-verbal clues on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to elaborate on the thought I brought up in my last post: Sometimes I wonder if kids who grow up with multiple languages and spend time in different language environments take more time to watch for non-verbal clues from the environment and the speaker, and if they actually feel people’s intentions more.
My parents were real intellectual rebels and visionaries in 1980s communist Hungary
Posted in bilingual, Raising a multilingual child, tagged 1977, 1986, bilingual, communist, dare to dream, family, history, Hungarian immigrant in Canada, Hungary, immigration, independent, Iron Curtain, Khalil Gibran, Life, second language acquisition, your children are not your children on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How we lived through a bit of History – the years preceding and following the lift of the Iron Curtain: the decision to raise a bilingual family, an illegal satellite dish, a Western European trip in 1986, summers in Switzerland, our ties to Canada and Khalil Gibran’s: Your Children are Not Your Children…
The role of my Father
Posted in bilingual, Raising a multilingual child, tagged dad, dream big, father, Hungarian, Hungary, Life, parents, role of a father, skype on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my previous post I talk about how our Mom taught us English and what an amazing feat that was. Here I would like to dedicate a post to my Dad, who enabled our bilingual journey just as much us our Mom. I believe the person who doesn’t speak the second language in the family [...]
Growing up bilingual and how the world became my playground
Posted in bilingual, Raising a multilingual child, tagged bilingual, children, different cultures, family, multilingual, parenting, second language acquisition on September 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today I finally found a summary that I have written a few years ago on growing up bilingual and how it influenced my life in a positive way. Below are more of the reasons why I am an avid believer of giving your children as many languages and as early on as possible. Growing Up [...]
