Category Archives: families

Second generation VSL learning

Posted on March 24, 2015 by stefce

Every time my daughter complains about having to go to Spanish classes every Saturday morning, I feel her pain, because once upon a time, it was my pain too. But after all this time, I still don’t have a killer … Continue reading →

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Know more than one language? Don’t give it up!

Posted on March 16, 2015 by stefce

If it takes a village to rear a child, then “The bilingual child benefits from being raised by two or more villages!” writes linguist Rebecca Callahan (right), in The Conversation, in an article picked up by the World Economic Forum. It’s … Continue reading →

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Digital resources: International Children’s Digital Library

Posted on February 10, 2014 by stefce

Not so long ago, borrowing children’s books in other languages meant a complicated, perhaps costly interlibrary loan if you weren’t lucky enough to live near a library with holdings in your language … or a costly trip to a foreign … Continue reading →

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