Our experience with bilingual education
My daughter was making a book. I heard her spelling B-A-L (ball) and saw her writing it down in her book. She decided she would like her book to be really funny, so she started writing a new word. She asked me to come read the word and I could hear the excitement in her […]
Lees meer Learning how to write in Dut-CHIn an earlier blog, I wrote about the differences between the Dutch and Italian alphabet and how we deal with them now that our 4-and-a-half year old daughter is learning how to write. About six moths ago, my daughter started to write more and more, for instance when she liked to write al the names […]
Lees meer The letter ‘K’Follow up on my earlier blogs about #codeswitching and some examples from my #bilingual children
Lees meer Codeswitching Part 2Last weekend, we were playing hide and seek. It was my turn to count, so I went “acht (8), nine (9) …” and my 20 month old son added: “tien (10)!” I didn’t really pay much attention to it, as I thought it had been a coincidence, so we continued playing. As we walked up […]
Lees meer The first numbersThis is what reading a book with my #bilingual #toddler is like!
Lees meer Reading with my bilingual toddlerRead this in Dutch – Read this in Italian Today, I looked up the lyrics of ‘let it go’ from the movie ‘Frozen’ with my 3,5 year old daughter. Easier said than done. Should I pick the Dutch, English or Italian version? Let me explain why I wanted to look up the lyrics in the […]
Lees meer Learning English with ElsaBilingual infants as young as 20 months of age efficiently and accurately process 2 languages.
Lees meer Bilingual infants control their languages as they listenCodeswitching is common with multilingual people. I also see my bilingual child use a lot of loanwords, which I find interesting.
Lees meer Pasta in the polderRead this in Dutch – Read this in Italian “Look mommy, my brother has a beard”, my daughter said. We were eating yoghurt and her brother had yoghurt all over his face. She wanted to know who else we knew with beards, so I told her that she has one grandfather with a beard, and […]
Lees meer Daddy has a flyRead this in Dutch – Read this in Italian This weekend, we went on a trip with a large group of Dutch family. We don’t see these people very often, so every once in a while we need to explain some of the Italian words our children use. Especially in the case of one of Samuels […]
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