Child's motivation to speak second language is like chain lube to your bike: it makes other parts of bilingual upbringing flow smoothly. Parents often say: If he would just understand how important it is to speak/read/write in [put your minority language here] he would be motivated to speak it! The logic here is: knowledge motivates us to take action (speak second language in our case) But … [Read more...]
034 – Speech Pathologist Mary-Pat O’Malley On Language Development of Bilingual Children
Mary-Pat O'Malley is a Language and Speech Pathologist. She holds a PH degree in Linguistics in Trinity College, Ireland. She is an lecturer, author, researcher and lover of all things to do with speech, language and communications. She has over 20 years of working with families and 14 years experience teaching in the university. Mary-Pat is the founder of Talk NUA. Talk Nua is for making communicating … [Read more...]
033: Book Review: “Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability” by Adam Beck
Recently I got myself a copy of Adam's Beck new book "Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability". Adam is originally from the USA and now lives with his family in Japan. He runs exceptionally helpful blog Bilingual Monkeys. The day I started to read his book my To Do list was not accomplished at all. I could not put it down. It is so captivating, well organized and rich in stories! Adam's writing … [Read more...]
032: Why Is It Important To Support The Mother Tongue With Renata Peskova
Renata Emilson Peskova has a doctoral degree in Bayreuth University in Bavaria, Germany. She is the Chair at the Mother Tongue Association on Bilingualism. Renata lives with her German husband in Reykjavik, Iceland and has a bilingual son, Yohan. In this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast: Teaching hello in Icelandic and Czech Renata Peskova talks about what she does Why is it important to save … [Read more...]
031: Why Your Bilingual Child Does Not Respond Back In Minority Language
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Today's question is the most popular in my blogging experience. It is been asked by so many parents of different languages, family circumstances and kids' ages. But the core of the question remains the same: Why my bilingual child does not respond back in minority language. It certainly could be frustrating: you were always speaking the target language with your child and maybe he/she even spoke … [Read more...]
030: How to lead by example when raising bilingual children with Mandie Davis
Mandie Davis is the founder of Les Puces Ltd. early years classes. Les Puces is a pre-school group teaching French in a natural and accessible way. She has two daughters, Willow who is bilingual and India who is trilingual. They both learned French and German by living in those countries and being immersed in the language and culture. Neither of them had any formal lessons on language learning. In this … [Read more...]
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