Jan 7, 2016 | Bilingual Parenting, Learning Spanish, Raising Multicultural Kids
Ben Scheirman is an independent software developer from Houston, TX. He runs nsscreencast.com, producing a screencast on iOS development each week. He’s a father of 5 children and a moderately capable Spanish speaker. We invited him to share a little bit about his...
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...
Jun 3, 2015 | Language Learning App, Raising Multicultural Kids, Team Gus
Early last summer the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) reached out to us to work with them to develop Gus on the Go in Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian. We’re so excited to finally be able to release this for the international Armenian community....
Mar 18, 2015 | Language Learning App, Raising Multicultural Kids
We invited Nick Jaworski, a language center director and blogger, to give us some insight on what he looks for in a language learning app for his daughter. As a father working extremely hard to raise my daughter in Mandarin and, since I am not a native speaker myself,...
Dec 16, 2014 | Bilingualism, Language Learning Tip, Learning French, Raising Multicultural Kids
With University degrees in education and developmental child psychology, Nicole has also enjoyed a long career in academics. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, she is a native English speaker who nonetheless has studied and lived the benefits of bilingualism. In...
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...