Tag: child-language
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5 Everyday Habits that Quietly Undermine your Child’s Multilingual Language Development
Raising a multilingual toddler? Here are five everyday habits that might be quietly slowing their language development – plus simple tweaks that fit real family life. No pressure, just practical tips from someone who gets it!
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Is Your Bilingual Child Confused? (No. But the People Around You Might Be!)
Worried about your bilingual child mixing languages? Are they saying things like “Ich will teeth cleanen”? Here’s why it’s normal, clever, and not a sign of confusion – but your relatives might be.
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How to Read to Your Toddler to Boost Their Language Development
Struggling to make storytime work with your toddler? This guide shares fun and practical ways to turn toddler books into powerful tools for early language development and bilingual learning. No sitting still required!
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Is one parent’s language use more important than the other’s in raising a bilingual child?
You might be surprised to learn that it’s not the language strategy that matters most when raising a bilingual child — it’s who speaks each language, and how often. A new study found that the primary caregiver’s language use has up to TWICE the impact on a child’s bilingual exposure compared to other caregivers! In…
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Why is parenting between cultures and languages so exhausting?
Parenting in multiple languages and cultures is beautiful—and exhausting. Between code-switching, live-translating bedtime stories, and juggling cultural expectations, it’s easy to lose sight of yourself. This post shares the honest, messy side of bilingual parenting—and why your quiet efforts matter more than you think.
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Bilingual Children’s Speech Development: Why Monolingual Norms Don’t Apply
🚨 Don’t compare your bilingual child to monolingual children—and don’t let anyone else do it either! Bilingual kids learn differently. Their speech, grammar, and even pronunciation won’t match monolingual timelines—and that’s completely normal! Mixing languages, using different word order, or having a slight accent aren’t problems—they’re signs of growth. Let’s stop unnecessary worry and support…
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What are the top tips from “Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability”?
Looking to raise a bilingual child but not sure where to begin? In this post, I share my favourite tips from Adam Beck’s Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability, along with real-life insights from my own experience as a language teacher and mum. Practical, playful, and actually doable.
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What are the Benefits of Bilingualism for Babies and Children?
What’s so great about being bilingual anyway? Well… I’m so glad you asked! From sharper focus to better problem-solving, bilingualism has incredible benefits for your child’s brain—and it starts earlier than you might think. My own daughter is already mixing languages at 22 months with the funniest and most fascinating phrases, and she’s not alone!…
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Simple Ways to Support Babies’ Language Development
As a language lecturer and bilingual mum, I’ve seen firsthand how little ones soak up language from everyday life. In this post, I share simple, natural ways I help my toddler learn—through chatting, books, songs, and play—without pressure or fancy methods. Language learning happens in the little moments!
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What language development milestones should I expect at 20 months?
Since Christmas, my daughter’s world has been getting louder, chattier, and more expressive every day. She was 20 months old at the end of the year, and this stage is absolutely incredible—and doubly fascinating for me as a language lecturer! 😉 One minute she’s pointing at things and making little sounds, the next she’s coming…
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