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One day - One language

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How to increase a minority language exposure It is inevitable that in any multi-lingual family setting one or more languages get more time and focus than the others. Naturally one of the parents or any other adult speaking minority language just gets to spend more time with the kids. Whether a stay at home parent, caregiver or maybe the one that spends a long morning commute with the child. Or there is more relatives around speaking the language. Or simply the adult responsible for passing on the minority language is just not as comfortable with it, gets limited time, cannot naturally hold conversation with a young child or simply gets frustrated to be in it alone.  As the time progresses and LingoPapa works hard away from home to support us, he gets limited time to speak and actively teach children Urdu. It a language that needs more attention in our household. Not only we get the least exposure to it but it also needs more attention due to its Persian script and ba...
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It's a state of mind

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I get asked this a lot : "When have you started to teach languages to your children?" "What is the right time to start?" In my humble opinion, one has to make the intention to raise kids with more than one language way before they arrive. It is really helpful if you consider how you going to raise your children and whether passing on another language is important not only to you but also the other co-parent.  Switching languages on daily basis, potentially learning a new one as an adult and coping with the stress of arrival or a baby, toddler tantrums and tween drama...and beyond...is NOT EASY !  I moved abroad to improve my English after high school and around that time I started to ponder on how I will teach languages to my future kids. As years went by I never went back to settle in my home country. What is more, I move to another country and picked up another language. In France I worked in multilingual family where kids spoke Spanish with th...
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Welcome to our "lingoliving" life

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This blog is dedicated to multilingual parenting, languages study, language teaching and all things related. It will not be just about our experience from attempting to teach our kids languages but also about adult and continuous language learning.  Why? Well, finally I gathered the courage to speak about our results and battles and discoveries when it comes to multilingual and multicultural parenting and having third (or perhaps fourth :) ) culture children.  I would like to also supplement this blog by videos and other interactive content and also connect with others on similar path!  Thanks for stopping by ....more content soon :)
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