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paths to bilingualism: bringing life to a family language plan

The 5 common methods for raising bilingual kids

Tuesday, 20 Sep 22

The five common bilingual parenting strategies for raising bilingual kids, taken from Bilinguitos.com.

1) One Parent, One Language

2) Target Language at Home

3) Time & Place

4) Mixed Language Families

5) Outside Resource Families

Swipe through to read descriptions and examples →

Remember that there is no ONE right way to raise a bilingual child. Families may choose one or several strategies, or a different strategy not listed here.

The benefits of a bilingual brain

Thursday, 14 Jul 22

What are some of the benefits of a bilingual brain? What is the difference between a compound bilingual, coordinate bilingual, and subordinate bilingual? Watch this TED-Ed video to find out more about this fascinating topic.

Learning to read in two (or More) languages

One of the common questions parents ask is: When learning to read in two languages, which language should my child learn to read first? It is a dilemma many parents face. This article from GreatSchool.org provides some interesting insights. We reproduce below 4 key takeaways from the article:

How language shapes the way we think

Tuesday, 24 Aug 21

There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. "The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is," Boroditsky says.

"Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000."

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