by Clarissa | Jun 13, 2019 | dutch life, family, writing |
Today is launch day for “Moving abroad with children” and “Raising bilingual children: when school speaks a different language”. Both these books are based on our experience moving from the UK and now living in the Netherlands. Writing them has...
by Clarissa | Jun 11, 2019 | dutch life, family, writing |
“Raising bilingual children: when school speaks a different language” releases in just a couple of days. Here is a sneak peek from the introduction to show you what you can expect in the rest of the book. We are an English family and nearly five years ago...
by Clarissa | Mar 11, 2019 | dutch life, family, personal
Last week I had parent teacher meetings for both children. These were fifteen minute sessions with their teachers and without the children there. And we have these three times a year now – late autumn, early spring and before the summer holiday. Both of them are...
by Clarissa | Jan 14, 2019 | dutch life, family |
One of the joys of having children who speak two languages is watching them learn them both. Hearing them talk to each other in a mishmash of them. Helping them learn words that they only know in the other language. That they can teach you words that you...
by Clarissa | Jul 26, 2018 | dutch life, family |
What I hadn’t thought about when learning a new language was that it’s not only the words that are different. The sounds that things make are different too. For example in Dutch cows say “boo” and cockerels crow “kukuleku”. And...
