Pasta in the polder
Codeswitching is common with multilingual people. I also see my bilingual child use a lot of loanwords, which I find interesting.
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Quando capisci di essere bilingue?
“La mia esperienza di nonna di bambini bilingue è entusiasmante. Vedere i progressi di Julia mi riempie di orgoglio. Fino a poco meno di un anno fa, lei non riusciva a comprendere che con i nonni e zii doveva parlare in Italiano e quindi, spesso dovevamo ricordarglielo. Adesso sa perfettamente come esprimersi e passa con naturalezza […]
Lees meer Quando capisci di essere bilingue?One magic word
Yesterday, my son (1,5) said ‘sì’ for the first time. Finally! It’s probably no surprise he already said ‘no‘ and ‘nee‘ for a while. We also managed to get him to say ‘ja’ with a lot of applause. So, now we’re complete. Still, he has a huge preference for any variation of the word ‘no’. […]
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“Mama, are there any ‘zanzare’ here?”, my daughter asked when we were at the beach a couple of weeks ago. “No, there are no mosquitos here”, I said. “Oh, OK, but I see there are ‘formiche’”, she said – pointing at some ants marching across the sand. Code-switching: switching between two languages during a conversation […]
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