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 | Jan 23, 2018 | dutch life, family
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...
by Clarissa | Nov 21, 2017 | dutch life, family |
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...