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A Conversation I Wish I Never Had
A Canuck in Cancun | August 15th 2008 by CancunCanuck
Acquaintance: I'm happy my son will be learning Spanish and English.Me: I think it's great, it's such an advantage to be bilingual or multilingual, I want Max to have as many languages as can fit in his little head.Acquaintance: Oh God, not me, it read more
Bilingual Baby
My Personal Blog | July 28th 2008 by Bernadette Santiago
It is very apparent in any bilingual baby that he develops quite late compare to a monolingual baby. The former can easily utter two or more simple words in his first year. Sometimes the case is much earlier. Children who grow up hearing to differen read more
Teaching English Language Learners: What Seems to Work in America…
Compelling Conversations in the ESL/EFL world | July 22nd 2008 by Eric18
Do English language learners, or English as a Second language students, learn better in sheltered programs? Should students receive some instruction in their native language – and if so, for how long? Are there clear differences to effectively writ read more
83% Say “No” To Obama Bilingual America Idea.
Hypocrisy.com | July 10th 2008 by Kim
Immigration Anger Mostly About Government Encouraging Immigrants Not To Assimilate Eighty-three percent of voter disagree with Barack Obama when he said, "Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English," Americans "need to make sure y read more
Voters Reject Obama's Plan for Bilingual America
The Interested American | July 9th 2008
Barack Obama said yesterday that “instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English,” Americans “need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.” A national telephone survey conducted last month by Rasmussen Reports found that U read more
Changing language, changing personality
Notes about the World | June 27th 2008 by Mats Stafseng Einarsen
Reuters reports (”Switching languages can also switch personalities“) on a recent study by Luna, Ringberg and Peracchio that touches upon some of the issues of personalities and language in the post about bilingualism and psychosis. How read more
Naturally Bilingual
From my Swiss window | June 25th 2008 by Pumpkin
I stopped this morning to talk to two older neighbors who started a conversation with me about the weather. It wasn’t long before one of the men took the opportunity to tell me that I should speak French with my children and not English. His read more
Raising Multilingual Kids
A Canuck in Cancun | June 22nd 2008 by CancunCanuck
A few mommies out there have asked for support or advice on raising a bilingual child. I am by no means an expert, but I've got three plus years of living with a bilingual kid and watching his development step by step. As an English teacher by day, read more
I No Did It!
A Canuck in Cancun | June 18th 2008 by CancunCanuck
Observing Max develop language skills in both English and Spanish is really amazing and at times, really amusing. He's incredibly keen on learning correct verb tenses, practicing new ones all the time. In English he's using past, present, future an read more
Regina Spektor - Russian Jewish American singer
The Russian Way | May 13th 2008 by Maria
Now I'm officially in love with this singer. What's it have to do with Russia and culture stuff?Well, Regina was born in Moscow in a Jewish family and moved to the USA at the age of 9. So here's your third culture kid.This song features and extract f read more
Que raro!
A Canuck in Cancun | April 16th 2008 by CancunCanuck
Estoy pensando en español. I'm thinking in Spanish. I noticed last week while my brain was in overdrive, that I was actually thinking in Spanish. Not all the time, but definitely for long stretches. It actually freaked me out, I wondered how lon read more
Bilingual children: how to start
barbaraland | April 1st 2008
Leggi l’articolo in italiano. A few months ago, before opening this vlog, I read an article about bilingual children in a magazine. I will translate and summarize some sentences: In each form of bilingualism [...] it is better for the child to read more
2008 Year Of Constitutional Change
Le Revue Gauche | December 31st 2007
Harper likes to talk out of both sides of his mouth. Especially when it comes to the Quebec Nation. Stephen Harper apparently has been telling the Quebec media (in La Presse specifically) the following:“Stephen Harper souhaite que la résolution qu read more
The Scrabble Theory of English Spelling
Henry | December 2nd 2007 by Simon G
Here, Eddie Izzard proposes his “Scrabble theory of English Spelling”, with a digression on the need for bilingualism: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video read more
Where's the Kitten?
Mama Saga | July 19th 2007 by Mamanista
If you check out Mamanista, you know that I've been trying to introduce Baby Diva to other languages, specifically Spanish and Russian.One of her favorite new books is Where's the Kitten? (English/Russian bilingual edition). I've been reading it in R read more
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