Monthly Archives: October 2009

10 bloggers and a Carnival, on Bilingualism

Welcome to the Blogging Carnival on Bilingualism, a monthly get-together for all interested in bilingualism and in raising bilingual children and an opportunity to share experiences, info and best practices. Raising bilingual children is seldom as straightforward as one would think, or hope, and it can be a bit lonely if you live in a monolingual [...]

8 reasons why you don’t have to be a native speaker to teach your child a language

More and more parents are teaching their children a second language they themselves don’t speak as native speakers. Even more parents would like to do but don’t dare. The assumption that only native speakers can teach their children a second language is deep rooted but not supported by any evidence, on the contrary, it is [...]