Mixing languages

Mixing languages

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...
More on a multi-lingual house

More on a multi-lingual house

In a previous post I talked about language learning, specifically learning Dutch. About juggling a home language and a community language. But the reality is that there’s always some cross-over. English is so prevalent, and the Dutch generally so proficient at...
Having a multi-lingual house

Having a multi-lingual house

Since moving to the Netherlands we’ve had to negotiate how to include Dutch into our family life. Or whether we want to at all. Obviously we are a British family, and our main language is English, but in order to integrate better here we were keen to all learn...

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