Multilingual Living Magazine
  The July-August issue of Multilingual Living Magazine is finally here! Have children adopted from another country? How about raising them in their native language! Violeta Garcia-Mendoza's article on just how to do this will be all the inspiration you need! What about quadrilingualism? Is your family in a situation where it makes sense to raise your children in three or even four languages? Why and How? Those are the questions we asked you to answer for us and answer you did! We finally share with the world your insights! Author of the new book, Living Languages, Tracey Tokuhama-Espinoza shares tips and suggestions in her interview for Multilingual Living Magazine. Don't miss our article on global wedding traditions! Who knew there were so many ways to celebreate this special event! As always, we have suggstions, support, tips and more which you won't want to miss!
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Cover Stories in the July-August 2008 Issue...
• Raising adopted children bilingually? - Read what you can expect and tips to prepare you for the adventure!
•Raising Global Citizens - Tips from the experts on how to help make this happen in your family.
• Raising children in 4 languages! Growing up with three languages and raising children quadrilingually.
• Interview with Tracey Tokuhama-Espinoza - an informative interview with the author of Living Languages: Multilingualism Across the Lifespan.
• Global Marriage Ceremonies - how couples around the world are tying the knot!
• Frequently Asked Questions - your most pressing questions about multilingualism answered!
•WHY and HOW? - Readers tell us why and how they are raising children in more than one language and culture!
• Speaking two languages to your child - Is it ok to speak more than one language to our children?
• Win your very own SIGNED copy: Living Languages: Multilingualism Across the Lifespan! (Click Here!)
• And MUCH MUCH MORE!
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A Blog from the Bilingual Trenches
 May 15 , 2008
Deutsch, bitte!
A blog by Corey Heller, BBFN Founder
"Deutsch, bitte!"
Ahhh, those two magical words which have such power, such influence, such resonance.
As I wrote in my last blog entry, we have been entering a new phase in our household - an English phase. The language of choice for my children when playing has become English, English, English. (Luckily they are still speaking German with us.)
In addition, my sons have been asking why they are expected to always speak German at home with one another when my husband and I don't even do it all the time. Good question, indeed! So, my husband and I, supporting this argument, suggested to our children that we would make an effort to speak German with one another more often if they would do the same. Agreed all around.
This doesn't mean that our children now automatically speak German with one another. That would be too easy! But it does mean that a gentle reminder of "Deutsch, bitte," elicits the friendly reply from our kids (in German) "Oh right, I forgot!" followed by at least 10 minutes of German until it slowly spills into more and more English (followed by another gentle reminder). But hey, that's something! CLICK HERE to continue reading...
On the Radio!
Click on the player below to LISTEN to the founder's RADIO INTERVIEW with Kevin Henry, the Cultural Diversity Coordinator for the City of Bellevue, Washington, USA. (Or CLICK HERE to open the mp3 file directly.)
Misdiagnosed as Language-Impaired
As we reported in Multilingual Living Magazine: "As if being an immigrant isn’t tough enough, immigrants are also facing the predicament of their children being incorrectly diagnosed as having a language impairment! It just so happens that the linguistic errors which English-language learners make are similar to monolingual English-speaking children with language impairments."
CLICK HERE to read the full Science Daily article
Exciting Research
Ellen Bialystok and her team of scientists have done it again!
In 2004, Ellen Bialystok was the lead author on a study which revealed that individuals who grew up bilingual were better able to manage their attention than monolinguals when confronted with complex sets of rapidly changing task demands. For more information, read the Science Daily article.
In 2007 Ellen Bialystok was the lead scientist on another groundbreaking study which shows that bilingualism can help to protect against dementia. When compared with monolinguals, bilinguals are shown to have a 4-year delay in the onset of dementia. Read Baycrest Research Centre for Aging and the Brain report here.
What does all of this mean to us raising bilingual and multilingual children? Keep it up! Who knows how many benefits we are providing our children just by raising them in more than one language!
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