September 15, 2015

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Guest Post: Battling the Majority Language Giant (While Feeling Like a Minority Language Gnome)

September 15, 2015

By Ana Paula G. Mumy, MS, CCC-SLP When I found out I was pregnant with my first child, as any parent, I did so many things to prepare for our daughter’s arrival, but as a bilingual mom-to-be, I conscientiously prepared for being the primary Portuguese speaker in her life. Even with all of the preparation of reading blogs and books about bilingual parenting, building a library of children’s storybooks in Portuguese, and relearning children’s songs from my childhood, I naively

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