Maintain your languages and learn new ones - your brain will thank you! www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Spring - my favourite time of the year. The blossoms bring hope for a better future in a present of dystopia.

"children will learn the languages they need" Creating a genuine need for a child to speak a language is the most important thing a parent can do to pass on a family language. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

"bilingualism appears to confer reserve in the form of brain maintenance in Alzheimers Disease" Bilingualism is not a cure for AD, but it helps with coping with the symptoms. www.psypost.org/brain-health...

Lang may yer lum reek!

Also: they bring linguistic diversity into the country - and we need to recognise this as a strength (while also supporting language learning for all).

I have never been a big fan of Coldplay, but this video with Chris Martin and the 99-year-old Dick van Dyke is just heartwarming www.openculture.com/2024/12/99-y...

Raising bilingual children can feel overwhelming—how do you balance multiple languages while keeping your kids engaged and motivated? In this short article, I share research-based approaches to help navigate multilingual parenting. #bilingual #parenting www.linkedin.com/pulse/multil...

It is ready - our documentary for "Growing up Multilingual with Chinese Heritage", sharing experiences from children living globally, and locally in Sheffield digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Growin... @sheffielduni.bsky.social #langsky #bilingual #multilingual #identity

When a child starts walking, it opens up the world in a whole new way - with a significant increase in communication opportunities. #bilingualchildren www.hanen.org/information-...

📣 I am excited to co-edit a book w/ Fabrice Jaumont on embracing the imperfection of language learning. Do you have a story, a case study, a biography that challenges the paralyzing "gold standard" of achieving native-like fluency in an L2? For submission guidelines, visit calec.org/2024/11/28/b...

"brain rot" is the word of the year. How can we encourage our children and young peolpe to switch back to books instead of watching poor quality skibidi videos? corp.oup.com/news/brain-r...

"parents mixing languages has no impact on children's vocabulary development" bbi.umd.edu/news/story/r...

The Power of #Language: Myriad of Benefits of #Multilingualism: Cognitive, academic and social aspects of #bilingualism by Yale News: yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/10... knowledge-centre-interpretation.education.ec.europa.eu/en/news/powe...

Our next #Bilingualism #CEN #CPD event on 11th December (12pm-1pm) is on ‘Using City Gesture Checklist with bilingual people’ with Dr Anna Caute and colleagues. Please drop us a message at [email protected] for the zoom link/to be added to our CEN mailing list. 😀🙏🏽

"Bilingualism is perceived as a talent for white students and as a deficit for students of color." demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan... #langchat #culturalexchange #languageimmersion #globalstudent #worldlanguage #iteachwl #giftedstudent #giftedandtalented #bilingual #multilingual

By me, in @theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n... << inc @dapsdraws.bsky.social @melindasalisbury.com @redbreastedbird.bsky.social @serenakpatel.bsky.social and more

This is so very disappointing. #Equality #Diversity #RepresentationMatters "These most recent, more sobering results, particularly after a summer of racially motivated riots, remind us that the job is far from done." www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

brand new combining diacritics dropping soon in Unicode 17, to be used for transcribing rare historical uses, and even more so for really tryhard conlangs! #linguistics #langsky

Bilingualism Makes the Brain More Efficient www.languagemagazine.com/2024/11/22/b... via @langmag.bsky.social #bilingual #langsky

Want to see a baby make 60 million neural connections? 🧠 Look no further than this fantastic video. As they bide a little time in the car, our hero and his dad engage in this lovely “serve and return” interaction. (Thread 🧵)

Let’s talk about language-rich environments. One of the determining factors in both the speed at which your child develops language and the size of his/her early vocabulary is exposure to (direct & interactive) caregiver speech. (Thread 🧵)

Watch and learn. 👀 🧠 I’ve written often about how infants learn language not just with their ears, but with their eyes. But I’ve rarely run across a better video example than this lovely moment shared to IG by seanandcaitlin. (Thread 🧵)

Love photography, so sometimes I share pics of birds, flowers, mountains, glens, rills, and the like.

& due to my accent: grew up bilingual (Swedish & Finnish), studied languages (German, some French & Spanish), Indian relatives (haggling knowledge of Punjabi), lived in England, now in Scotland (learning Scots). "Respect those who speak with an accent, they may know one more language than you." 2/2

"Where are you from?"is a question I have been asked several times. My long answer starts with "How long do you have?". My short answer "Finland & Scotland - when I travel from one to the other, I am always going home." Not half, but double. 1/2

We have passionate volunteer members and rely fully on donations for our activities. Our website bilingualfamily.org is in the making, but you can already follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram - oops, that became 3/2 😀

Bilingual Family (SC053564) expands the PEaCH remit to all children under 18, independent of their linguistic and cultural background and where they live in the world. We will be sharing research-based advice and tips for parents in multilingual families and for professionals supporting them. 2/2

What I am most excited about at the moment is chairing the charity Bilingual Family, which I founded in August 2024 together with Ambassadors for the Erasmus+ project PEaCH, which ran 2019-2021. 1/2

I stepped out of the rat race in 2012 and created multilingualparenting.com to help parents raise their children to speak the family languages - coaching, presentations, talks, workshops, and blog articles. In 2014, my book "Bringing up a Bilingual Child" was published. Others are in the making ...