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Curious What My Plans Are for 2021? (Hint: They Involve Bilingual Kids and Bearded Dragons)
If you’re curious what my plans are for 2021, I’ll summarize them in this post. If you’re not curious what my plans are, you can stop reading here and enjoy a donut instead. (Or do both.)
Read This If Ever You Doubt the Meaning of Your Bilingual Aim with Your Child
The world has been spinning madly for nearly a year now. I suppose our lives were never truly in our control even before the pandemic struck, but it feels like whatever control we did have has largely slipped away, laying bare the existential state at the heart of being human.
My New Year’s Message for Parents Raising Bilingual Children During a Pandemic
Our calling to give something to this world, to leave it just a little bit better when we depart than when we arrived, will continue to be the throughline for our lives, no matter the state of the world.
Dear Diary: I Bet It Would Be Cool to Be Bilingual!
Dear Diary, So here I am. Six weeks in the womb. And I’m bored silly. I mean, there’s not much to do in here besides grow. I can’t even start kicking until I have legs. That’ll be kind of fun, I guess, but so far this life stuff has been really dull. No TV, no video games, no nothing. So I’m starting this diary
The Polish Edition of “Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability” Is Here!
I’m thrilled to welcome the Polish edition of Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability to the world! (In Polish the title is Podaruj dziecku szanse na dwujezycznosc.) This is the first translated edition of the book and, honestly speaking, I never imagined an exciting development like this when I wrote the original English edition, which was published in 2016. Back then, I was only hoping that the book in English, which was based on my experience as a teacher and parent
Guest Post: My Son Is a Language Superhero, Even If He Doesn’t Know It Yet
My son is trilingual: he speaks English, Arabic, and Urdu. That’s a pretty cool super power. Passing it on hasn’t always been easy, especially living in the United States where we don’t need to speak other languages. This article lays out some tricks and challenges I’ve faced teaching Arabic (not to leave out my wife, but I don’t want to be putting words in her mouth). But I’ll start with a key idea: our son speaks these languages because he
