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Watch the Video of Our Virtual Book Launch

Last weekend was the virtual book launch for my new book “Bilingual Success Stories Around the World: Parents Raising Multilingual Children Share Their Experiences and Encouragement”. The idea was to bring together as many of the 26 families from the book as possible to celebrate its release and offer them a chance to connect “in person,” since most of them had never previously met. It was challenging

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Feeling Discouraged About Raising Bilingual Children? Watch This Video.

If you’re feeling discouraged or frustrated about your bilingual or multilingual aim for your kids, this video can help. It offers a fresh, empowering perspective that comes from a chapter of my popular book Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability: Ideas and inspiration for even greater success and joy raising bilingual kids. Remember, you can always find friendly support, too, at The Bilingual Zoo, the web’s liveliest community for parents raising bilingual and multilingual children. View this video at Bilingual Monkeys

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VIDEO: Important Research on Successfully Raising a Bilingual Child

In this video, I describe important research on success rates for raising bilingual children then explain the implications of this research for parents. The information I share goes right to the heart of successfully nurturing a child’s bilingual (or multilingual) ability and can be found in my widely-praised book Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability: Ideas and inspiration for even greater success and joy raising bilingual kids. View this video at Bilingual Monkeys TV and subscribe to my YouTube channel. Get

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My Kids Scream at Me Not to Lick Poisonous Mushrooms

Blame it on our fancy new couch. This one here… In fact, I had been planning to write a more meaty post about the process of bilingual development…but when our new couch arrived on Wednesday afternoon, I got completely distracted. You’re probably thinking I was sprawled out on this fancy couch for the rest of the week, nibbling crackers and caviar, but I swear that isn’t true. You see, when the new sofa was delivered, our old couch was taken

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“A Little Monkey Business”: Another Fun, Productive Project for Language Exposure

Toward the tail end of summer, my 10-year-old son and I went to the small park near our house with my camera, a tripod, and a handful of props. It was a hot afternoon and we spent the next couple of hours improvising silly scenes on video, which I thought we might somehow edit together into an entertaining little film. (At least entertaining to us, if no one else. ) Well, our film is finally complete and we’d like to

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VIDEO: Your Child Wants to Be Bilingual

It’s true! No matter how old they are, children want to be bilingual! Watch this short video, where I read an excerpt from my book Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability, for a motivating perspective on the entire bilingual journey… View this video at Bilingual Monkeys TV and subscribe to my YouTube channel. Get more information about my widely-praised book.

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