Nov 8, 2016 | Bilingual Parenting Resources, Learning English, Learning Italian, Learning Spanish, Raising Multicultural Kids
Having been raised monolingual, I know what it is like to learn a second language as an adult. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be, and although I am quite fluent, I don’t consider myself perfectly bilingual. Teaching English to children for many years, I...
Sep 6, 2015 | Bilingual Parenting, Learning English, Learning Spanish, Multilingual Kids, Multilingual Parenting, Raising Multicultural Kids
This week we asked our FAVORITE bilingual family podcaster, Marianna du Bosq, to share with us how she was able to maximize her daughter’s exposure to English and Spanish while living in Germany. These strategies apply to any and all parents looking to keep...
Feb 9, 2015 | Language Learning Tip, Learning English, Learning French, Learning Russian
Virginie Durand is originally from Touraine, a region in the Loire Valley in France. She graduated from University Francois Rabelais Tours majoring in Modern Humanities and Russian language and followed with Khagne and Hypokhagne courses in humanities and Russian. In...
Feb 6, 2015 | Learning English, Learning German, Learning Hebrew, Multilingual Kids, Multilingual Parenting, Team Gus
Baby J has recently learned a new skill – code switching! Ok, fine… it’s not really a skill so much as a natural byproduct of being raised multilingual. Let me step back a second and explain code switching. Code switching is the act of switching languages...
Oct 20, 2014 | Language Learning Tip, Learning English, Learning German, Learning Hebrew, Raising Multicultural Kids
Those of you that have peeked at our family language diagrams on the Meet Team Gus page, will notice that my wife and I are raising Baby J trilingual – English, German, and Hebrew. This is not an easy task in our situation. But before we get to that, let’s...
Jul 29, 2014 | Language Learning Tip, Learning English, Learning French, Learning Spanish, Raising Multicultural Kids
Audrey Misiano teaches French and Spanish using AIM Language Learning to 7th and 8th grade students in Central New York. She has a BA in French Language and a Masters in French Literature, and was a Fulbright Scholar teacher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles where...