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Why I Love Being Bilingual & Want my Kids to Speak 2 Languages
Bilingual Plus
I’ll admit it: I’m love the fact that I am bilingual. And when I say I’m bilingual, I don’t mean that I can speak two languages, more or less fluently. I mean that I am fully fluent in English and Spanish, and that I speak, read and…
Faster! Faster! / ¡Más rápido! ¡Más rápido!
Bilingual Books, Books
Faster! Faster! / ¡Más rápido! ¡Más rápido!
Written and Illustrated by Leslie Patricelli
Candlewick Press • 2013 • 30 pages
Board Book ($6.99)
ISBN: 978-0-7636-6611-8
Ages 2-5
“Faster! Faster! / ¡Más rápido! ¡Más rápido!”…
Bilingual from Birth: Raising My Son in Two Languages
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Before I was even pregnant, I knew I’d raise my child bilingual. What I didn’t know is how well it would actually work! At two years old, Daniel is talking up a storm. He’s surrounded by Spanish speakers so he’s speaking mostly in…
5 Challenges To Overcome When Raising Your Bilingual Child
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Before I had kids, I would turn my nose up at anyone who spoke just one language and failed to raise bilingual kids. I found it aggravating and unforgivable. After all, I had been raised to be fully bilingual! Well, when I had my kids, I discovered…
Join Mamiverse & SocialMoms for Our #BilingualPlus Twitter Event!
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Mamiverse’s Bilingual Plus is an online channel devoted to bringing parents and educators the bilingual learning tools they need in the form of digital picture books, sing-alongs, and free curriculum-based family activities.
To mark the…
How Children Can Help Parents Learn Spanish
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After 28 years as a language instructor I can tell how people learn best. While it’s true we all learn a bit differently, when it comes to acquiring information and retaining it we are all pretty much the same. We remember with visual aids…
Is Spanglish Killing Real Bilingualism?
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Heraclitus of Ephesus, the Greek man of wisdom who lived five hundred years before Christ, said, observing nature, “everything is in a state of flux,” meaning that everything is forever changing and that no human ever steps in the same…
Different Degrees of Bilingualism and How to Attain Them
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A high stage of expertise is a goal we must all strive for and never quit trying to achieve. Otherwise, we risk becoming self-satisfied and complacent. Language is a life-long affair and the sooner we accept this fact, the better we will fare…
10 Reasons Why Being Bilingual Gives You an Edge
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Bilingual is Better is a very helpful and informative book by Ana L. Flores and Roxana Soto. The title expresses a big truth that multicultural parents already know, but that people who speak only one language may not be fully aware of.
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