023: Ryan Cole | The Founder of Little Lexicon About Raising Two Sons With English and Czech

Ryan Cole is an American living in Prague, Czech Republic with his Czech wife and two American-Czech boys. He's the founder of the app, Little Lexicon. Little Lexicon is a website that lets your translate and share your bilingual toddler's vocabulary with friends and family. Ryan created the app after his first child, Oliver started talking. He realized that in the very early stages of speech he was … [Read more...]

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Book Review | “Bilingual Life and Reality,” by François Grosjean

This is one of my favorite books about bilingualism. It's a relatively new book, published in 2010 by the Harvard University Press. The book is about two hundred and fifty pages long, and it's very easy to read. Much of the information in the book comes from academic studies, but the text is simple enough that you don't need a background in linguistics to understand it. There are two main sections … [Read more...]

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022: Tim Johnson On How Dual Language Books Can Help Learn A New Language

Today's guest is very interesting because it's the first time that we have an author of children's books. You might even have heard about the book - The Adventures of Bosley the Language Bear. The series of the cute bear and his adventures on the different languages. The author of this book is Tim Johnson. Unlike other dual-language books, the Adventures of Bosley Bear are specifically designed with the … [Read more...]

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021: Michele Cherie | How Non-Native Speakers Can Raise Their Kids Bilingual

My guest in this podcast episode is Michele Cherie and she's the founder of Intentional Mama. She writes about making purposeful choices for culturally-rich, perfectly paced family life--with a French twist. Michele is a former French teacher who is now dedicated to raising her two children and she's also a non native speaker who speaks French to her daughters. I was very excited to talk to Michele about … [Read more...]

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Annabelle Humanes | One Family – Four Languages : How? | Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast

On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we meet Annabelle Humanes, who is the founder of the blog – Piri-Piri Lexicon. She’s a French language researcher married to a Portuguese and they reside in Germany with their daughter, LJ. The family speaks 4 languages on a daily basis with the aim to raise LJ into a young global citizen. Click here to listen to Annabelle Humanes' interview on … [Read more...]

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Adam Beck | The Founder Of Bilingual Monkeys Gives Us Great Ideas On How To Raise Bilingual Children | Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast

Adam Beck has a solid background in bilingualism. Not only is he the founder of Bilingualmonkeys.com - a blog dedicated to bilingualism but he also came to Japan in 1996 and taught English to bilingual children at the Hiroshima International School for many years. Adam is also a father of two bilingual children. He and his wife go by the one parent, one language system to teach their kids English and … [Read more...]

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