tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73953003559760417152024-03-16T03:35:33.259+01:00Raising a Trilingual ChildPractical advice based on personal experience and results of scientific researchMaria Nemchukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13705092171155853565noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395300355976041715.post-58519797444692569952018-06-18T11:30:00.000+02:002018-06-18T11:30:07.746+02:00Russian kids book: Boris Zakhoder - Борис Заходер "На горизонтских островах" стихи.<span lang="RU">В сборник "На горизонтских островах" вошли, пожалуй, одни из самых лучших стихотворений <a href="https://amzn.to/2JJDZVY" rel="nofollow">Бориса Заходера</a> на которых выросли мои трехъязычные дети. Каждое слово, каждая строчка полна смысла. Веселые, задорные, емкие они как нельзя лучше развивают воображение детей, а красивые иллюстрации Надежды Бугославской прекрасно передают настроение стихотворений.
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Parenting is hard. Parenting is challenging. Being a parent of a trilingual child has its own perks.<br />
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1. At least once (in my case it is about 172625 times) in your early parenting life, you <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>googled </b></span><b><span style="color: #134f5c;">“average number of words spoken at age….”</span> </b>and got puzzled whether or not you should count the same meaning words from different languages more than once, so you googled it, too (also around 352 times).<br />
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2. You made a list of words s(he) spoke correctly in an excel file on your computer, got a print out and hang it on your fridge; and with that word list, you and your spouse <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>ran an</b></span> <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>unspoken contest on whose language is winning so far</b></span>.<br />
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3. Between ages 1-3, <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>your child burst into tears because no one understood her “3 languages in one sentence” style of talking </b></span>and you cried with her, too.<br />
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4. Sometime around age 2,5, <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>your child makes her first grammatically super correct long sentence and you burst into tears of joy and success.</b></span> Even if it is something like:“Mama, I made poop into my pants”.<br />
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5. Your child is in <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>“selective language usage period”: You speak one language to your child, s(he) answers you in another.</b></span> You stick on. S(he) sticks even more. People don’t understand why you do that and you are bored of explaining, so you say: I am using my child as a personal “Tandem Partner” and we teach each other languages. People think you are crazy and leave you alone.<br />
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6. Your 3 year old comes home one day totally puzzled and asks you <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>“Why her best friend can not speak English?”</b></span> and you try to explain why. “She can not even understand it???? but everyone understands English!” The remaining week passes like “That man can not speak English, neither, mommy?”... “how about this woman standing there?”... “What about this child with red hat, mommy?” <br />
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7. At age 4, <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>your child speaks at least 1 language better than you</b></span> and 1 language better than her/his father.<br />
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8. Your weakest language allows you pretty well to communicate in your daily life, but when you speak it around your 4 year old and her friends, you feel yourself like a 2 year old. Especially when your 4 year old child apologize on your behalf of you in front of another 4 year old child, telling “mama can not speak German so good, but you know, <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>she speaks many other languages like I do</b></span>..” you feel “proudly shamed” (yes, that feeling exists, obviously..)<br />
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9. Every now and then, <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>you ask your 4 year old to translate a word for you</b></span>. And sometimes you pretend like you understood what she means, to save both of you from more shame, but your 4 year old rephrase it to your level (which is really double-shameful).<br />
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10. People who once told you: “You are pushing her too much! She is struggling, please drop at least one or two languages...” tell you <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>“WOW, she can speak all those languages in this age? She must be a genius!”</b></span><br />
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11. You met at least once in your early parental years, a “professional” who suggests you to “drop a language or even two” and you changed that “professional” to the other one who actually supports you with your choices. And if you didn't, you met a speech therapist who charged you minimum 10 visits and finally a psychologist for yourself to tell you <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>“there is nothing wrong about your child, that's how she is trying to learn multiple languages at the same time, give her time and support, that's all she needs. Eventually she will figure it out her own way”.</b></span><br />
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<i>Written by Ceren Schubert</i><br />
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<b>Ceren Schubert</b> <i>
- Contributing writer from Munich, Germany. She holds double Masters
degrees in Developmental Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology, who
choose to give a break on her PhD career to be SAHM of two trilingual
(to be) children. When she is not full time parenting; she is also an
enthusiastic traveller off the beaten tracks, a passionate blogger, and
enjoys being around open minded, colorful and multi cultural people. </i><br />
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<i>She loves dogs a bit more than cats, malaga a bit more than vanilla
ice cream, coffee a bit more than sleeping, and summer a lot more than
winter. She also loves walking very long distances when she needs to
think and sometimes (often) gets lost doing that.. Her latest “project”
is learning Qigong, which she started just recently and loved a great
deal! </i><br />
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<i>Oh and, she dreams of writing a book one day.</i><br />
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OK, I have to warn you from the beginning. This is a “true story”. Not only true, but also a pride, prejudice, pain, gain, failure, and finally getting the grips kind of story. Got your attention? Cool. Listen up. I will give you a secret on how “not to raise” your trilingual child, so that you can probably skip the “failure part” from your own story. <br />
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Yes, finally after a long battle over “theory and practice”; I can say that I am a proud mother of a trilingual. Over the 4 years, this got me on the edge of mental failure – especially trying to find a “method” that fits our family, trying to keep that method within the family, and trying to “ignore” the super parents around who kept blab blab blab’ing on “how natural it is in their family”, “how fast the kids absorb 3,4,5,6,7 languages (no *hitting, I met an African mama who kept all 7 languages at home!) etc.<br />
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Ok, now a flashback on who I am. I am a psychologist.Not only a random one (unfortunately), I am a “shrink” and a “neuropsychologist”. Yeah baby. I thought I read it all, I could just use my knowledge and get through this business of raising a trilingual. Easy-peasy. Not really. That is the first piece of information I will give now: <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>“Do not read too much, especially after the child is born”</b></span>. Why? Because you will get lost in theory and surprised how different it is in reality. Skip that part. Google “OPOL technique” and see how you lost from the beginning: <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>“One Parent, One language, Never mix” simply does not work with more than 2 languages and only 1 parent.</b></span> Gosh its sooo easy to raise a bilingual, right? (Sorry guys, you do a great job, just pure jealousy here).<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>The problem with theory is; you tend to forget the basic cliche: “every child is different”.</b></span> Yes, there are supposed to be some super talented kids around who absorb languages like “you stuff yourself with chocolate in bathroom when your 2-year old is having a meltdown in her room”, but most children are not talented that way. <br />
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My child was an exception of theory. She was raised 3-lingual until age 1,5. Me speaking Turkish, daddy speaking German with her and we speak English when we all were together. The first year was easy since there were no expectations of her talking back. The second year, I realized she was far beyond her developmental stage. First time mothering plus being a neuropsychologist hit me hard, ladies and gents, and <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>I started comparing and contrasting my kid. Second advice: Do not do it. </b></span>Why? It only makes you miserable. I got panicked. She was not gonna talk, EVER. <br />
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So what did I do? I went to her pediatrician who was obviously an “expert” in speech development (Nooooot!) who told me “yeah, it’s delaying, not normal” (some doctors really fail in human psychology, right?). So I thought, “Oh no, all the old and wise ladies who stopped me on bus-stops were right! (We call them Oma-Police here, they are those grannies who are always worried about your child being outside without a hat). The brain on development is having hard time, lets make things a bit easier for poor child” and whoooop I dropped the 3rd language. I did! Yes. <br />
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And she talked.<br />
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Of course. <br />
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She talked, but not because I dropped the 3rd language, because it was her personal developmental point of starting to talk. Gosh, she talked and talked... and talked. But she talked nonsense! It was impossible to understand her “3-languages in same sentence” talk unless you can speak all those languages. The books said “it’s a phase, keep on answering her in your own language, she will know soon whom to talk with which language”. But when? I was devastated.. What was I doing wrong that she was just not getting this trilingualism?!<br />
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Let me tell you. <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>I was believing theory and other mothers too much! </b></span>They all told me “yes, sure, ours is trilingual and it’s just so natural and easy” and I believed. I thought I was the only mother who sucked at this trilingualism business and my child was the only one who didn’t get it. <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>But in reality, people just tell you what they believe, not the “brutal” reality. </b></span>They usually say “sure, she is trilingual” when the child understands all those languages, yet can not speak them properly. Or when she mixes, jams, plays around. Or even when her nanny speaks a language, they assume the child is automatically trilingual! I even met a mother who believed she was raising a trilingual because she was watching TV in language X for 1 hour every day!!! And me, I only accept a child is trilingual when that child speaks ALL three languages without mixing, forming grammatically correct sentences with rich vocabulary. In this sense, are there any trilingual children (at least before Age 3-4) at all???? My answer: No. Never seen one.<br />
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So relax! Don’t be a dick head psychologist who questions everything until perfectionism.. Relax..<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Until age 3,</b></span> she lived all these <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>VERY NORMAL phases of more than one mother language acquisition: she mixed, she developed her own rules, she tried using grammar of one with vocabulary of other, she formed logically correct yet linguistically super wrong sentences </b></span>(this phase was really so much fun). Not so much fun but still normal phases such as stuttering, avoiding one or both or any languages for a long period of time (selective mutism) and being socially rejected due to lack of community language skills etc. Also, been there, done that. Of course when you are living it, it’s not fun. <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>But they all pass eventually, just like all those growth spurts of babyhood or terrible twos pass.</b></span> And somewhere between age 3 to 4, you realize that you have a child who can speak the community language as good as her peers PLUS at least one language better than them - to be honest, you may end up with a child who can speak at least one language better than you or your husband, too. ☺ Welcome to our boat, fellow parents of multicultural children.<br />
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Now let’s turn back to our “poor old 3rd language”, which I radically decided to drop for a while, at age 1,5, panicking my toddler will not speak any language at all. You know what, it showed up by itself at age 3,5! Without any effort, without any intention, to my surprise one day, she started speaking it with her grannies.. Just like that! I was shocked, speechless.. She was there, all by herself, cracking the codes of her looooong forgotten 3rd language! In only 1 month, where we had a long summer holiday with her grannies, she started showing interest in speaking Turkish. After a full month, she was speaking it! – Well, not perfect, but good enough to be able to play with children speaking only Turkish. Now, finally, at age four, she is “trilingual”. Isn’t it a success story? Hell, yeah! <br />
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But, to be honest, <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>it was damn hard for us. We failed, got up, tried again, failed again, got up, tried again, failed again. </b></span>Learned a lot on process. And its another story or multiple stories, I would love to share with you.. Common mistakes, common misunderstandings, common failures, common “I can not do it anymore on the loooong road of “creating a trilingual child”. If I dare to say “trilingual” at all.. I see our family as “on the road of trilingualism” still, because for me a true trilingual is someone who can speak all three languages fluently, in right context, without any (or minimal) mistakes. And well.. we have a looooong way reaching there. But, come on people, be honest! Who does not?! So, why not sharing our experiences, why not saving each other doing same mistakes, why not giving a hand to each other on this common road? Good idea? Then come up, join up!<br />
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To be continued.. ☺ <br />
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<b>Ceren Schubert</b> <i> - Contributing writer from Munich, Germany. She holds double Masters degrees in Developmental Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology, who choose to give a break on her PhD career to be SAHM of two trilingual (to be) children. When she is not full time parenting; she is also an enthusiastic traveller off the beaten tracks, a passionate blogger, and enjoys being around open minded, colorful and multi cultural people. </i><br />
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<i>She loves dogs a bit more than cats, malaga a bit more than vanilla ice cream, coffee a bit more than sleeping, and summer a lot more than winter. She also loves walking very long distances when she needs to think and sometimes (often) gets lost doing that.. Her latest “project” is learning Qigong, which she started just recently and loved a great deal! </i><br />
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<i>Oh and, she dreams of writing a book one day.</i><br />
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<a href="http://amzn.to/2yTI5Wb" rel="nofollow">Trilingual by Six: The sane way to raise intelligent, talented children </a>by Lennis Dippel MD - <a href="http://amzn.to/2yvf5zK" rel="nofollow">Kindle</a> - <a href="http://amzn.to/2yTI5Wb" rel="nofollow">Paperback</a> <br />
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Church has an important part in Italian culture. Every single one is decorated and has a nativity scene display, that is called Presepe. You can find Presepe both inside and outside the church. Sometimes in a building in the near proximity.<br />
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There is almost no single door left without a decoration! Red color bows and Christmas wreaths are used often this year.<br />
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Stores beautiful Christmas decorations are another way to attract more customers during the winter holiday season. Christmas trees, lights and ornaments are everywhere, even on small town streets!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you feel like visiting Italy during this winter holiday season? </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">- Then read this post to learn </span><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/12/why-visit-Italy-in-winter-Christmas.html">"Why You Should Visit Italy During Winter Holiday Season and Why You Should Not"</a></h4>
Interested to learn more about <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2016/12/christmas-traditions-in-italy.html">Italian Christmas Traditions</a>?<br />
How is Christmas celebrated in Italy?<br />
Who brings Christmas presents in Italy and when?<br />
What is a typical Italian Christmas meal?<br />
And learn about 13 Italian Traditional Christmas desserts? - Then read <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2016/12/christmas-traditions-in-italy.html">Italian Christmas Traditions</a>!</span><br />
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Have you already got a calendar/planner for 2018? </b></span>Check out this <a href="http://amzn.to/2yKvpg1" rel="nofollow">coloring calendar monthly planner</a> that I created together with very talented Maria Soldatova.<br />
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Welcome to our fifth annual Christmas in Different Lands series! This year each participating blogger will focus on a different country, sharing a traditional dish and more about Christmas in that country. For even more glimpses of global Christmas celebrations, see our series from previous years (<a href="https://multiculturalkidblogs.com/2013/12/01/christmas-in-different-lands/">2013</a>, <a href="https://multiculturalkidblogs.com/christmas-different-lands-2014/">2014</a>, <a href="https://multiculturalkidblogs.com/christmas-in-different-lands-2015/">2015</a>, and <a href="https://multiculturalkidblogs.com/christmas-different-lands-2016/">2016</a>) plus follow our <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/MKBlogs/christmas-around-the-world/">Christmas board on Pinterest</a>!<br />
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</b><a href="http://www.lisalewismd.com/">Lisa Lewis, MD</a> on <a href="https://multiculturalkidblogs.com/2017/12/01/lebanese-christmas-celebration/">Multicultural Kid Blogs: A Lebanese Christmas Celebration</a></div>
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</b><a href="https://www.letthejourneybegin.eu/celebrating-nikolaus-germany/">Let the Journey Begin: Celebrating Nikolaus in Germany</a></div>
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</b><a href="http://loumessugo.com/en/blog/entry/christmas-traditions-provence-france">Lou Messugo: Christmas Traditions in Provence, France</a></div>
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</b><a href="https://alldonemonkey.com/2017/12/08/diy-ornament-philippine-christmas-star-craft/">All Done Monkey: DIY Philippine Christmas Star Ornament</a></div>
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</b><a href="http://craftymomsshare.blogspot.com/">Crafty Moms Share: Bangladesh</a></div>
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</b><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/">Raising a Trilingual Child: Italy</a></div>
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<b>December 13
</b><a href="http://www.discoveringtheworldthroughmysonseyes.com/">Discovering the World Through My Son's Eyes: Puerto Rico</a></div>
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<b>December 15
</b><a href="http://jennifischer.blogspot.com/">The Good Long Road</a> on <a href="http://multiculturalkidblogs.com/">Multicultural Kid Blogs: Israel</a></div>
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</b><a href="https://giannathegreat.wordpress.com/">Gianna the Great: Choctaw Nation</a></div>
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</b><a href="http://americanmominbordeaux.blogspot.com/">American Mom in Bourdeaux: France</a></div>
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Have you thought about getting a calendar/planner to track your child's development? This year my 8 years old son asked me many questions for his school project. I was happy I made notes in a calendar and kept it all these years! So I was able to tell him when exactly he said his first word, when exactly he started walking ...<br />
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In a collaboration with an illustrator Maria Soldatova I created a 2018 Coloring Calendar / Monthly Planner that not only can help you stay organized, but also keeps you entertained!<br />
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- 12 monthly planner pages for 2018<br />
- 12 coloring pages, one per each month (Illustrations by Maria Soldatova).<br />
- blank pages for notes.<br />
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2018 Calendario da colorare / pianificatore mensile</span></h2>
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Avete mai pensato di usare un calendario / pianificatore per monitorare lo sviluppo del bambino? Quest'anno mio figlio (8 anni) mi ha fatto molte domande per il suo progetto scolastico. Ero felice di aver fatto le note su un calendario e di averle conservate per tutti questi anni! Così sono stata in grado di dirgli esattamente quando ha detto la sua prima parola, quando esattamente ha iniziato a camminare ... </span><br />
<span lang="IT">In collaborazione con l’illustratore Maria Soldatova ho creato un 2018 Coloring Calendario / pianificatore mensile che non solo può tenere tutto in ordine, ma anche far divertire!<br /><br /><br />Dentro trovi<br />
- calendario per il 2018 e 2019.<br />
- 12 pagine di pianificatore mensile 2018.<br />
- 12 pagine da colorare, una per ogni mese (Illustrazioni di Maria Soldatova).<br /> - pagine in bianco per le note.<br /><br />
Spero che vi piacerebbe: può essere un bel regalo per adulti e bambini più grandi. Già disponibile su Amazon: </span><br />
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Вы и/или ваш партнер разговариваете на нескольких языках и хотите вырастить маленького билингва
или еще лучше полиглота. У вас уже есть список языков на которых вы бы хотели, чтобы ваш
ребенок разговаривал. А что делать дальше и с чего начать пока не
знаете.<br />
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Многие начинающие родители спрашивают себя:<br />
1. <a href="http://trilingualchildren-ru.blogspot.it/p/blog-page_1134.html#%D0%9D%D0%B0%20%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%20%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B5%20%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C">На каком языке разговаривать с ребенком?</a><br />
2. <a href="http://trilingualchildren-ru.blogspot.it/p/blog-page_1134.html#%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B0%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%20%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C">Когда начинать разговаривать с ребенком на выбранном языке?</a> <br />
3. <a href="http://trilingualchildren-ru.blogspot.it/p/blog-page_1134.html#%D0%9D%D0%B0%20%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%20%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B5%20%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%20%D1%87%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC%20%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8C%D0%B8">На каком языке следует разговаривать другим членам семьи?</a><br />
4. <a href="http://trilingualchildren-ru.blogspot.it/p/blog-page_1134.html#%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%20%D0%BB%D0%B8%20%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE-%D1%82%D0%BE%20%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C">Надо ли что-то делать или просто разговаривать с ребенком?</a><br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Языковые стратегии.</b><br />
Существуют две наиболее популярные стратегии обучения ребенка языкам в многоязычной семье:<br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>1.Один родитель - один язык.</i><br />
Эта
стратегия подразумевает, что каждый член семьи говорит с ребенком
только на одном языке. Например,
мама русская, говорит с ребенком только по-русски, папа итальянец,
говорит с ребенком только по-итальянски. Язык страны может быть или
итальянский или русский или вообще третий, например, английский.<br />
<br />
<br />
<i>2. Дома один язык, а в обществе - другой.</i><br />
Говорить
дома на одном языке - языке меньшинства, а за его пределами - на языке страны
где проживаете. Например, живя в Италии, члены семьи между собой всегда
говорят на русском, а в обществе на итальянском. <br />
<br />
<i>3. Время или Место. </i><br />
Если
вы планируете обучить ребенка еще и другим языкам, можно логически
привязать их к дням недели или к определенным занятиям. Например, семья
говорит только по-испански по воскресеньям или когда ребенок принимает
ванну или за обедом. Таким образом, предлагая ребенку постоянный
распорядок к которому он привыкнет и будет готов.<br />
<br />
Ребенок
может оказаться двуязычным, трёхъязычным, четырёхъязычным или
полиглотом даже у родителей говорящих всего на одном языке, например,
если семья переехала в другую страну и мотивирует ребенка на познавание
новых языков и поддерживает уровень уже изученных.<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6112821618893857963" name="На каком языке разговаривать"></a>
<b>Какой язык выбрать? На каком языке разговаривать с ребенком?</b><br />
<br />
На этот вопрос нет однозначного ответа. Безусловно лучше всего говорить с
ребенком на языке, которым вы владеете лучше всего. Обычно это родной
язык. С моей точки зрения, точки зрения матери, родной язык более
естественен при общении с ребенком, так как все колыбельные песни и
слова, что вы слышали ребенком, сами собой возвращаются когда держишь
ребенка на руках.<br />
<br />
Возможно будет тяжело начать
разговаривать с ребенком на родном языке, особенно, если вы давно его не использовали. Я
испытала это на себе. Но не пугайтесь, у вас все получиться! Вам только надо начать разговаривать с ребенком с самого рождения и язык к вам вернется, а странные ощущения исчезнут.<br />
<br />
Может
быть и такая ситуация: Вы по какой-то причине не считаете
"полезным" ваш родной язык. И не хотите на нем разговаривать с ребенком. Прежде чем вы окончательно откажитесь от , казалось никому ненужного языка в
пользу другого, спросите себя не окажется ли это препятствием для вашего
ребенка при общении с родственниками. Особенно важно для ребенка
общение с бабушкой и дедушкой. Не отнимайте у него радость общения с
ними!<br />
<br />
Если, хорошенько поразмыслив, вы все-таки решили
отказаться от передачи ребенку вашего родного языка, вы можете
поддержать вашего супруга или супругу и говорить с ребенком на его
языке. Это в том случае если язык родителя отличается от языка на
котором говорят в обществе, в стране где вы живете. Таким образом следуя стратегии "Дома один
язык, а в обществе - другой" вы сможете вести спокойный разговор за столом
без прерывания на переводы. Как это обычно происходит у нас.<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="Когда начинать разговаривать"></a>
<b>Когда начинать разговаривать с ребенком на выбранном языке?</b><br />
<br />
Чем
раньше начнете, тем больше будет преимущество перед доминирующем
языком, обычно это язык страны проживания. Так что активно разговаривайте с ребенком с момента рождения. А ближе к 6
месяцам можете начинать его знакомить с книгами. Время играет очень
важное значение: чем больше вы сможете вложить в ребенка в первые годы,
тем лучше результат.<br />
О моем опыте раннего чтения, вы можете прочесть на английской версии сайта: <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/04/bilingual-child-when-to-start-reading.html">Когда начать читать?</a> и <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/05/how-to-read-to-baby.html">Как читать ребенку?</a><br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="На каком языке разговаривать членам семьи"></a>
<b>На каком языке следует разговаривать другим членам семьи?</b><br />
<br />
Попросите бабушек, дедушек, теть и дядь поддержать вашего ребенка на пути к многоязычию
и разговаривать с ним на языке меньшинства. Если кто-то из них говорит
на других языках, вы можете попросить использовать только его при
разговоре с вашим ребенком. Постоянство важно и здесь, объясните
родственникам что вы от них ожидаете.<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="Надо ли что-то делать"></a>
<b>Достаточно ли просто разговаривать с ребенком чтобы передать родной язык живя в другой языковой среде?</b><br />
<br />
Нет. Просто разговаривать с ребенком в данном случае будет
недостаточно. Надо день за днем развивать словарный запас. Так что читайте ребенку как можно больше. Постоянно разговаривайте
с ним с рождения и даже во время беременности. На основании
исследований опубликованных в журнале по психологии Psychological Science Journal, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100216142330.htm">младенцы
с которыми во время беременности разговаривают на двух различных языках
проявляют интерес к обоим языкам в отличие от одноязычных детей</a>. Таким образом, обеспечивается внимание и легкость восприятия уже услышанных языков. <br />
Перед вами так же стоит задача насколько возможно максимизировать контакт ребенка с языком.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Сколько времени надо разговаривать с ребенком на языке?</b><br />
<br />
Научно доказанных
цифр для измерения достаточного языкового воздействия нет и нет
гарантированного результата если скажем ваш ребенок будет в языковой
среде 25-30 % времени. Вам надо просто запастись терпением
и постоянно ,
день за днем, работать с ребенком, развивать его словарный запас,
стараясь включать материал из все возможных жизненных ситуаций.<br />
Если вы работаете,
наймите няню говорящую на вашем языке. Поищите садик или школу, где язык
будет поддерживаться. Вам надо разработать долгосрочный план с рождения и
на многие годы вперед, который вы сможете менять с ростом вашего ребенка
и в зависимости от текущей динамики в семье.<br />
<br />
Пора в путь по дороге к двуязычию, а может быть даже к многоязычию! <br />
<br />
Счастливого пути вам и вашим детям!</div>
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<br />
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<br />
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<br />
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<br />
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How Do You Choose Which Language To Speak To Your Child When Both Parents Are Trilingual (In The Same 3 Languages)? </div>
My Personal Story About Raising Trilingual Children<br />
<br />
<i>by Suzan Alakas</i><b><br /><br />No, no, no! Ei! Yok! YOK!</b><br />
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Younger Daughter stamps her feet, crosses her arms and pushes out lower lip in a pouty defiance. She refuses to get in the car and sit in her car seat. Sigh. Here she goes again. It’s not enough for my 2 year old to be stubborn and object in one language... she has to go on a rant in 3 languages. But even though it’s completely frustrating in the moment (we are going to be LATE if she doesn’t get in and sit down), inside I’m proud of her language ability at such a young age. <br />
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Allow me to translate: Yok (Tatar) = No (English) = Ei (Finnish) <br />
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Did you guess that she is saying: No, no, no! No! No! NO!<br />
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<h4>
<u><b>How my husband and I became trilingual in the same 3 languages:</b></u></h4>
Hello! I’m Suzan Alakas. My first language was Tatar, an old Turkic language, spoken to me by both parents. We spoke Tatar at home, with my grandparents, and extended family/community.<br />
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I was born in Japan, and learned a little Japanese, but attended American pre-school and learned English at a young age. We moved to the US when I was 7 (unfortunately, most of my Japanese was forgotten). English quickly became the dominant language in my life, and still is to this day. <br />
<br />
About 20 years ago I met my future husband, at a wedding, in California. He was visiting from Finland. He was also raised speaking Tatar at home, and learned Finnish growing up in Finland. Plus, like most Finns, he had a pretty high competency in English since he started studying it in 3rd grade. <br />
<br />
After that wedding, we went our separate ways, but kept in touch, long distance. We primarily communicated in English, because we felt limited by our Tatar vocabulary. I also started learning Finnish with songs, reading the dictionary (yes, I’m a language nerd!!) and eventually studying Finnish in college. He would send a portion of his emails to me in Finnish, and I would sit and translate them, asking him questions about the words and expressions I couldn’t find in the dictionary. (This was before Google Translate existed.) As our relationship grew stronger, and we visited each others’ home countries more often; my Finnish improved, as did his English. <br />
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By the time we got married, settled in California, and had our Older Daughter, we were both highly proficient in Tatar, English and Finnish. <br />
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<u><b>In what language environment will we raise our child? Our thought process.</b></u></h4>
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We talked about this A LOT. We planned, discussed different scenarios, and reached a mutual agreement. </div>
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Our main options were the same as what you may have read about here: <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/p/language-strategies.html">http://www.trilingualchildren.com/p/language-strategies.html</a></div>
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<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>One Parent, One Language (OPOL)</b></span> – seemed like a good approach from the beginning.</li>
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<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Both speaking the same language (Minority Language at Home, ML@H) </b></span>– Leaned towards Tatar, considered Finnish.</li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Speaking a language based on the day of the week (Time and Place strategy, T&P) </b></span>– We quickly ruled out because it didn’t feel natural. We had tried this with just the two of us and it never caught on.</li>
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<br />
Living in the US, we felt our daughter would pick up English from her environment. So neither of us would be speaking that to her. That left Finnish and Tatar.<br />
<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Was Finnish necessary since only 5 million people in the world speak it, and pretty much only in Finland? </li>
<br />
<li>Was Tatar necessary since it’s only spoken in Tatarstan, and quickly being replaced by Russian? Would we even be good enough to speak it to her, to teach it to her?</li>
</ul>
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>We decided that any language we can teach our child would be a benefit, and there were many reasons why we decided to include all 3 in her upbringing.</b></span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Tatar:</b></span> speaking to grandparents and small Tatar community, retaining link to culture, food, songs in that language. </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b><span style="color: #45818e;">Finnish:</span></b> keeping opportunities open for travel/business in Finland, possible move in Finland in the future. </li>
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<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Benefit of knowing more than 1 language in general:</b></span> becoming more culturally sensitive, increasing exposure to sounds/tones/grammar of other languages, making it easier to learn a foreign language later. </li>
</ul>
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Lots of encouraging research on this, like: <br />
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<blockquote>
<span style="color: #45818e;"><b>“Most researchers agree that multilinguals have special characteristics which are different from those of monolinguals or even bilinguals. Multilingual speakers use languages as a resource in communication and they use the various languages in different ways according to their communicative needs and their interlocutors. Monolingual speakers use one language for every situation and have fewer resources available.”</b> </span>(Ruiz de Zarobe, 2015) </blockquote>
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After we decided all 3 languages would be present in our child’s life, the decision became quite simple. We adopted the OPOL (One Parent, One Language) approach. Since I am not a native speaker of Finnish, I would speak Tatar and my husband would speak Finnish.<br />
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<u><b>In theory and in practice</b></u></h4>
I was already talking and singing to my tummy in Tatar before my Older Daughter was born, so when she arrived it felt natural. It wasn’t easy though – I hadn’t spoken Tatar day in and day out since I was 3 years old. I could only hold a middle school level conversation, mostly limited by my vocabulary. My grammar was rusty too. I could read Tatar written in Latin letters, but not in the widely used Cyrillic alphabet. I had 3 dictionaries nearby and started to read the Tatar children’s picture dictionary daily with my daughter, just as much for my own sake as for hers. It felt wonderful learning more of my mother tongue and passing it on to my daughter.<br />
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During the first few weeks, my husband spoke to my daughter in Tatar. When I gently reminded him that he was the Finnish speaker, he agreed that he would switch, but kept forgetting because it felt more natural to speak to her in Tatar. Then something clicked, and he did switch to Finnish. <br />
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By about 1 year, my daughter understood Tatar and Finnish very well, and was speaking lots of Tatar. She also knew some English phrases and words from playing with other children, listening to mom and dad, and listening to lots of songs in English. She was an early speaker and said her first string of 4 words, “happy birthday to you” at 12 months.<br />
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Then at about 18 months in, we seriously started talking about moving to Finland. At this point, my husband switched back to speaking Tatar. Because my husband knew we would eventually be moving to Finland and our daughter would learn Finnish there, he decided to switch back to Tatar full time.<br />
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We supplemented Finnish by playing more Finnish songs and showing some Finnish TV programs via internet. <br />
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At first I was disappointed that we were abandoning OPOL, but I didn’t push it because I knew my husband felt isolated speaking to Older Daughter in Finnish when no one else in our Tatar or Finnish circles could understand them. I felt that the most important thing was that he build a strong, loving relationship with her, and if he felt that Tatar was the language to do that in, then that was his choice. We didn’t notice any confusion from our daughter as Finnish decreased and we switched to the ML@H (minority language at home) model. Fortunately for us, she was still quite young, her father’s transition was to her dominant language and she spent most of the time with me at home speaking Tatar anyway.<br />
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<u><b>And then we moved! Äk! Now what?</b></u></h4>
While pregnant with my 2nd daughter, we decided to move to Finland. <br />
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Now what to do with the languages? Should one of us start speaking to her in English?<br />
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I didn’t want to switch out of the mother tongue. I was the primary caretaker and didn’t want to abruptly change from Tatar to English. Our daughter would have probably been ok with it, since my husband and Tatar community speak Tatar, but we decided to both keep speaking to her in Tatar, and add more English to her life - since that was going to be the new minority language.<u><b><br /></b></u>
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<u><b>How we increased exposure to the non-mother tongue, minority language (English)</b></u> </h4>
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">The biggest factor was <span style="color: #45818e;"><b>increasing her exposure to children’s shows in English</b>.</span> We were VERY selective with how often and what she could watch. At first, we only found one show we were comfortable with: Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. Slowly, we added more.</span></li>
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<li>We played <span style="color: #45818e;"><b>lots of music</b></span> – from the Beatles to School House Rock, plus children’s songs that I wrote myself in English.</li>
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<li>We <span style="color: #45818e;"><b>visited the US every year</b></span>, and grandparents visited us often. While they spoke mostly in Tatar, they did use lots of English too.</li>
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<li> My husband and I continued to speak English to each other at home. </li>
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<u><b>How Older Daughter Adjusted</b></u></h4>
When we moved to Finland, Older Daughter was about 3 years old – she was a solid speaker of Tatar, very good English speaker, and knew just a few Finnish words. We quickly enrolled her in a Finnish music group and dance classes, took her to story time every week at the library, and made sure she was out and about hearing Finnish at the park or grocery store during the week. Simultaneously, the increased exposure to English was working.<br />
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<b>One day she says to me, in English:</b> I need to elevate my leg. It hurts.<br />
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<b>Me, in Tatar: </b>What happened? And did you say, “elevate”? Where did you learn that word?<br />
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<b>She replies, in Tatar: </b>Daniel Tiger hurt his leg and went to see the doctor, and she said to “<i>elevate</i>” it.<br />
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Wow.<br />
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So since Older Daughter had such a strong English ability by age 4, we decided to shift her focus to Finnish, and enrolled her in a Finnish pre-school for 5 hours per week. Within weeks she was using Finnish words, and just a few months in, she was understanding and replying with basic sentences. We also added more Finnish children’s programming, and my husband started to read books to her in Finnish.<br />
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Yes, she would learn Finnish in school, but since we had a few years before she started school, we wanted to give her a chance to be proficient before she got there. Our hope is that by the time she starts school, she knows Finnish well enough to focus on the content and school experience, rather than on learning the language.<br />
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<u><b>My Younger Daughter’s language journey</b></u></h4>
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We lived in the US until Younger Daughter was about 1 year old. My husband, Older Daughter and I all spoke to her in Tatar, and she had very little exposure to English and Finnish.<br />
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After moving to Finland and upping Older Daughter’s English shows and songs, my Younger Daughter got much more exposure to English at a younger age than her sister. While she was much slower to speak compared to her sister, now at 2 years old, her English ability is already almost at the same level as her Tatar.<br />
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How did this happen? When I looked a little closer, I realized that her <span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Tatar and English exposure are about 50/50</b></span>:<b><br /></b><br />
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<li><b> Less Tatar </b></li>
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<li>She has less 1 on 1 time with me, as there are 2 children now vying for attention </li>
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<li> Less focused Tatar dictionary reading/studying because I already learned lots of new words with Older Daughter o </li>
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<li><b>More English</b></li>
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<li>Interestingly, the girls speak English to each other. Big sister spends the most 1 on 1 time with little sister and English is older sister’s language of choice </li>
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<li>Their favorite shows are in English </li>
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<li>Mom and dad have more time together at home in Finland vs US, so she hears us speaking more, in English </li>
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<li>I write children’s songs in English, sing these songs at home, perform these songs at local concerts</li>
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<li>I teach English to other children and hold story time in English at the local library. My girls often attend.</li>
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I have no worries about Younger Daughter’s ability to speak Tatar and English, so now that she is 2, she will be starting a Finnish music playgroup in the fall. We intend to start her in the Finnish pre-school when she turns 3.<br />
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<u><b>A colorful blending of languages - Instances of Code Switching inside and outside the home</b></u></h4>
<span style="color: #45818e;">What is code switching (CS)? It’s when you mix languages during a conversation.</span><br />
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While I try to consistently speak Tatar to my girls, I am ok with some code-switching going on. To me, it’s more natural to choose a word in another language that we mutually understand, than to stop the conversation, try to explain it or look it up. I grew up in code-switching environment, and so did my husband, and I am happy with how our language abilities turned out. Some people look down upon code switching, though the research is mostly favorable.<br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><br /> “Parents in particular are concerned that CS may confuse children as they develop their knowledge and skills in different languages. However, recent research in bilingual and multilingual education has provided evidence that CS can not only be used as an effective pedagogical strategy for teaching and learning (Canagarajah 2011) but also should be seen as a sign of linguistic creativity and criticality (Li 2011).” (Dewaele/Wei, 2013)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">“CS has both educational benefits and drawbacks. Positively, it increases learner participation and lesson comprehension. Negatively, it does not contribute to developing the learners’ proficiency and confidence in speaking…” (Mokgwathi/Webb, 2013)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">“Code-switching induced by a particular emotional state and by a lack of specific vocabulary in a target language appeared to relate to <b>increase in innovative capacity</b>.” (Kharkhurin/Wei, 2014)</span></blockquote>
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<b>So when do we use code-switching?</b><br />
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<li><b>Outside the home: </b>Usually when my girls speak to me in English at home, I repeat their question or statement in Tatar and then respond in Tatar.But sometimes when we are outside the home and they speak to me in English, I respond in English. English is definitely more prestigious than Tatar, and I teach English here in the community, so it feels natural to incorporate some English when we are around a larger group of people.
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<li><b>Gaps in vocabulary:</b> When I don’t know a word in Tatar, I try to explain it the best I can in Tatar, and then say it in English. I honestly explain to the girls that I don’t know the Tatar word, and that the word I’m using is the English name of the word. Then we attempt to find the Tatar word in one of our dictionaries, or by asking an older member of the community. <br />
Sometimes I make up Tatar words that are logical translations. For example, when I didn’t know the Tatar word for vein, I explained it in Tatar as “blood roads”. When the actual translation turned out to be the English equivalent of “roots”, we all learned a new word, and made the switch.
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However, sometimes I do not follow through with finding out the Tatar word, or there is no Tatar word equivalent, so the English word gets incorporated into our everyday vocabulary. </li>
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<li><b>Emotions/complex subjects: </b>It is still hard for me to express deep emotions and have complex discussions in Tatar. Now that Older Daughter is 4, our conversations are less superficial and much more technical (Why do the leaves fall from the trees in the fall, etc?). I do my best to explain in Tatar, and then supplement in English when needed.</li>
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<li><b>Written language: </b>Another challenge is reading and writing: I am teaching my girls the English alphabet because I don’t know Cyrillic, and they will learn the Finnish alphabet in school. </li>
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<u><b>What I have learned creating our language environment, in a nutshell</b></u></h4>
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<li>It was important to <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>take the time to talk about and work through scenarios </b></span>of what language to speak to our children. </li>
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<li>While very common, <b><span style="color: #134f5c;">OPOL is not the only option or best option for everyone</span>. </b></li>
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<li><b><span style="color: #134f5c;">It’s ok to be flexible. </span></b>Our initial choice doesn’t feel right in practice, and we needed to make a switch. Obviously, the earlier, the better. </li>
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<li><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>I’m grateful that I have options </b></span>of which language to speak to my children. Most people don’t.</li>
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<li>I will continue to incorporate all the languages I know, at whatever level, to my children - via books or shows, play groups, or songs. <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>You never know which language might be valuable to your child in the future</b></span>, and at the very least it will help them be more culturally aware, expose them to other languages, and help them learn other languages in the future.</li>
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<i>How did you decide on your family’s language arrangement? Please leave a comment below. I’d love to hear how you made the decision. </i><br />
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<a href="http://amzn.to/2ytZpga" rel="nofollow">Language Strategies for Trilingual Families: Parents' Perspectives (Parents' and Teachers' Guides)</a> by Andreas Braun - <a href="http://amzn.to/2zzGd3Q" rel="nofollow">Kindle</a> - <a href="http://amzn.to/2AAZboS" rel="nofollow">Paperback</a><br />
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<a href="http://amzn.to/2yTI5Wb" rel="nofollow">Trilingual by Six: The sane way to raise intelligent, talented children </a>by Lennis Dippel MD - <a href="http://amzn.to/2yvf5zK" rel="nofollow">Kindle</a> - <a href="http://amzn.to/2yTI5Wb" rel="nofollow">Paperback</a> <br />
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If you’d like to introduce your child to the Russian art, this is a good book to start with:<br />
Azbuka Russkoj Zhivopisi ( “Азбука Русской Живописи” ) by L. Zhukova.<br />
I love art, but I have to admit that I have no deep knowledge of Russian painters. This book was exactly what I was looking for to introduce my raised-abroad Russian speaking trilingual kids to Russian art and artists . It is called “Азбука Русской Живописи” which means “The ABC of Russian Paintings”. It has a chart that organizes painters by genres and indicates when they lived. Each page spread is dedicated to one painter: <a href="https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjJ4uXhnoLVAhVK5xoKHcqoAVgQFggoMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIvan_Aivazovsky&usg=AFQjCNGK1ukaL0NVpJjmbbNBjXAnojKgsQ">Ivan Aivazovsky</a>, <a href="https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjL6p3unoLVAhVNGhQKHX9qChUQFggkMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FKarl_Bryullov&usg=AFQjCNGORi0lbZftldeNRiQO8iym0v9K5w">Karl Bryullov</a>, <a href="https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjz7M6Fn4LVAhVBCBoKHd1JBJQQFggkMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FViktor_Vasnetsov&usg=AFQjCNGzHhJZGEhhgRbSGfeVTUtbSfutSA">Viktor Vasnetsov</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Vereshchagin">Vasily Vereshchagin</a> , <a href="https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwigsa-jn4LVAhWLbBoKHWuoBeoQFggkMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMikhail_Vrubel&usg=AFQjCNGoCWOwWlcX7PbDPb-gqIw0Vbx9Tw">Vrubel,</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkhip_Kuindzhi">Arkhip Kuindzhi</a> - too numerous to mentioned everyone! <br />
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I like that for each painter there is a portrait or, in some cases, an autoportrait with a short story about painter's life and genre he was focusing on.<br />
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“Азбука Русской Живописи” - замечательная книжка! Как для чтения маленьким детям, так и для самостоятельного чтения для детей постарше. Для маленьких знакомство с русскими художниками начинается с рассматривания картинок. Между прочим, замечательно использовать для развития речи! Я так и делала. Рассказываешь что и как и задаешь вопросы. Такое общение очень интересно и детям и родителям.<br />
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С детьми постарше можно рассмотреть картинки и прочесть вслух биографию художника. Ну а те, кто сам читает , смогут узнать много интересного о художниках самостоятельно.</div>
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I am not sure who loves these poems more whether my kids or myself. Since the book appeared on our bookshelf, it happened sometime back in 2014, we read it again and again. The fun word play by <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B0,_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0">Renata Muha</a> and beautiful illustrations by Evgeniy Antonenkov keep us entertained. <br />
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Как дать почувствовать русский язык детям, особенно тем, кто живет за пределами России и для кого русский - второй язык? Конечно же через стихи!<br />
<br />Ритм и удивительная игра слов в стихотворениях Ренаты Мухи увлечет вас и ваших детей. "Ужаленный Уж" издательства Machaon - книга со стихами поэтессы Ренаты Мухи, проиллюстрированная Евгением Антоненковым - очень полюбилась моим детям и мне.<br /><br />Стихотворные шедевры, которые так хорошо стимулируют воображение ребенка. <br /><br />“Платок хоботовый”! - ну конечно же и у больного слоненка должен быть платок! Только у нас нос, а у него хобот.<br /><br />"Гиппопопотомки!" - Есть ли и где они, потомки гиппопотама? - Есть, но это все "гипопоптетично"! <br />
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<br />Завароженная стихами Ренаты Мухи, я сначало предположила, что это ее псевдоним. Ведь фамилия так созвучна с настроением стихотворений автора! Но оказывается, это ее настоящая фамилия, только девичья.<br /><br />Узнать о Ренате Мухе вы сможете заглянув на <a href="http://renatamuha.com/">веб сайт поэтессы</a>, созданный ее мужем, Вадимом Ткаченко. Ткаченко и есть ее фамилия, взятая после замужества.</span><br />
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<span lang="RU"><br />А теперь о рисунках <a href="http://www.eantonenkov.com/">Евгения Антоненкова</a>, которые нам так понравились. Они чудесным образом передают сюжет и эмоции стихотворений. Посмотрите сами!</span><br />
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<span lang="RU">Судьба вас забросила далеко от ваших родителей, ваших друзей детства. И вот теперь и вы родитель и воспитываете маленького билингва или трилингва, как я, или даже мультилингва, у которого русский один из родных языков. Вы наверное уже почувствовали, что просто разговаривать с детьми по-русски недостаточно. Язык окружающей среды начинает доминировать. Кажется невозможным одному передать наш богатый и могучий русский язык.<br />
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Но это не так! Это возможно! Мы живем в Италии и я одна - источник русского языка для моих двух детей. Сейчас им 5 и 7 лет и они говорят каждый день по-русски со мной и друг с другом, даже если меня нет рядом.<br />
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Вы спросите, как можно сделать так, чтобы ребенок говорил по-русски как на родном языке? Важно создать вокруг ребенка русскоязычную среду со дня его рождения. Разнообразие материалов на русском помогает детям не скучать, пополняя словарный запас. Нехватка слов - одно из основных препятствий к использованию языка. Мы читаем русские книжки, поем русские песни, слушаем детское русское радио и аудиокниги, смотрим русские мультфильмы и просто общаемся на русском. За все это время в России дети, к сожалению, были только один раз.<br />
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Я уверена, что представленный ниже подобранный мной материал на русском языке, поможет и вам! </span><br />
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<span lang="RU" style="color: #134f5c;"><b>1.Детские книги на русском - </b></span><b>Kids books in Russian: </b></h3>
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У нас большая домашняя библиотека русских книжек. Книги мы читаем каждый день.<br />
<br />Здесь вы найдете список детских книг, полюбившихся мне и детям больше всего: </span><br />
<a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/p/russian-books.html">Лучшие Детские Книги на Русском / Russian Children's Books</a> <br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/What-Russian-Activity-coloring-raskraska/dp/1542942624/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&qid=1510452690&sr=8-1&keywords=kto+ja&linkCode=li2&tag=raisatrilch02-20&linkId=72ddcb35414f2c141c01cdd1a8af13b5" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1542942624&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=raisatrilch02-20" /></a>
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<b><span lang="RU" style="color: #134f5c;">2. Аудиокниги для детей слушать онлайн</span> - Audiobooks in Russian:</b>
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У меня нет какого-то одного полюбившегося вебсайта с аудиокнигами и аудиосказками для детей. Слушаем понемногу ото всех.
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<li><a href="https://audioknigi.club/section/detskie/">Audioknigi Club</a> </li>
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В коллекции более 600 книг разных авторов и разных жанров.
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<li><a href="https://deti-online.com/audioskazki/">Deti-Online</a> </li>
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Русские, зарубежные и народные аудиосказки для детей с возможность скачивания. Сортировка по авторам: сказки Сутеева, Одоевского, Чуковского, Мамина-Сибиряка,
Гаршина, Пушкина, Маршака и многих других.
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<li><a href="http://www.audioknigi-online.com/category/%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5">Audioknigi-online</a>
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285 детских аудиокниг. Интересная подборка аудиокниг для школьников
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<li><a href="http://www.hobobo.ru/media/audio">Hobobo</a>
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Помимо аудиосказок российских и зарубежных писателей
Вы найдете раздел <a href="http://www.hobobo.ru/media/audio/cat/detskaya-bibliya">детская библия</a>. <br />
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<li><a href="http://asbook.net/abooks/child/">Asbook</a></li>
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Много интересных аудиокниг, например о Гарри Потере и книги таких авторов, как А. Волков, Кир Булычев, Крапивин, Юрий Коваль, Михаэль Энде и другие.
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<b><span lang="EN" style="color: #134f5c;">3. Русские детские песни - </span>Children’s Songs in Russian
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Замечательная подборка детских песен на <span lang="EN">детском Радио Песни:</span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/p/kids-radio-stations.html#Russian">Список детских радиостанций / List of kids radio stations in Russian</a> </span><br />
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<span lang="EN">Песни</span><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"> из мультфильмов </span>можно послушать отдельно на множестве вебсайов. Например, на Youtube:</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c;">4. Колыбельные песни</span> - Russian Lullabys</b>
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<b><span lang="RU" style="color: #134f5c;">5. Программы и приложения по изучению русского языка </span>- Apps for learning Russian</b></h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.linevo.fillthegaps">Учим русский язык (школьникам)</a><br />
Обучающая программа для изучения грамматики и правил русского языка. ребенку предлагается заполнить пропущенные буквы. Проверка с показом правил.
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.allyteam.gramoteikids">Грамотей для Детей - Диктанты</a><br />
Проверка орфографии «Грамотей» -
правила русского языка и словарные слова (2 класс - 4 класс).
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pilowar.android.flashcards">Карточки для детей / Flashcards for Kids in Russian</a><br />
1500 дидактических карточек для изучения новых слов. Расчитано для детей до 7 лет.</span><br />
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.OSC.patters">Скороговорки</a> - Русский язык
Скороговорки на 29 букв русского алфавита.
После прослушивания аудио, ребенок имеет возможность потренироваться и записать свою речь.
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<b><span lang="RU" style="color: #134f5c;">6. Книги для самостоятельного чтения</span>- Russian language materials for independent readers</b></h3>
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<a href="http://rus4chld.pushkininstitute.ru/#/readingroom/b1">Читальный зал </a><br />
Рассказы, сказки, очерки и стихи для самостоятельного чтения с возможность прослушивания аудио. Для различного уровня : А1,А2,В1 и В2.<br />
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<b><span lang="RU" style="color: #134f5c;">7. Мультфильмы для детей </span>- Russian сartoons for kids</b></h3>
<a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/p/russian-books.html#Russian%20Cartoons">Подборка полюбившихся детям мультфильмов.</a><br />
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<span lang="RU"><i>Ура! Появлась в продаже <a href="http://amzn.to/2sTm4Ux" rel="nofollow">моя первая книжка-раскраска</a>, написанная
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<a href=”http://www.trilingualchildren.com/“>Raising a Trilingual Child</a></div>Galina (Trilingualchildren.com)http://www.blogger.com/profile/03264861240628255746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395300355976041715.post-54333523611694380672017-03-16T22:15:00.001+01:002018-01-04T01:19:23.061+01:00Speech delay due to fluid collection in the middle ear.<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="80" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trilingualchildren.com%2F2017%2F03%2Fbilingual-child-speech-delay-otitis-media-ear.html&width=450&layout=standard&action=like&show_faces=true&share=true&height=80&appId" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="450"></iframe>
Speech delay is often connected to /“blamed” on a child's gender or on the quantity of languages a child is exposed to. It is true that trilingual children definitely face more challenges than bilingual children do and bilingual children face more challenges than monolingual kids do. But be realistic. If you feel that you put a lot of efforts in your bilingual child’s language development and the results are not proportional to your input, it is time to search for doctor’s help.<br />
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This life story from Priscila Kohler will illustrate one of the possible causes of speech delay in children and I hope it will help many of you to act promptly to avoid possible complications.<br />
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I am Brazilian, and I am married to a Norwegian guy. We live in Norway and communicate in English between ourselves. When our son Martin was born, we decide to raise him trilingual. I only spoke Portuguese, my husband English, and Norwegian he would have to learn from the school. <br />
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I have two close friends whom had their children at the same time as me. So it was natural for me, a first time mom, to “compare” the development of the kids. <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>By the time their children were</b></span> 2 years old and <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>talking, Martin was not</b></span>. <br />
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And <b><span style="color: #134f5c;">two main things kept us from seeking proper help</span></b>, let’s say. <br />
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First, he was <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>the only one being raised in a trilingual environment</b></span>. So, people would say that many children would delay their speaking because of that, especially boys. <br />
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Second, <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>his personality</b></span>. He was always a child that could deep concentrate in some activity, not paying attention to anything else, and he is really stubborn. <br />
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While my friends kids were doing some “tricks” on command, like: clap your hands, put the toy in the basket, etc, Martin never did. And <span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: black;">we, me and my husband,</span><b> never suspected that he could not hear what we told him, </b><span style="color: black;">but rather, he just chose not to do it. </span></span><br />
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Then the pedagogue from the nursery school showed some concern, due to communication with him. A psychologist is called in to observe him at the the nursery school, and finds nothing wrong with him. Finally, we had a “2nd year control” at the health station, and then, only then, the nurse suspects that he might not be hearing well. We get an appointment with an Ear-nose-and-throat doctor, and within 2 minutes of consultation, the doctor says that Martin has hearing problem. In fact he´s got some liquid stuck in his inner ear (that is <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>really common among children that have a lot of ear infections</b></span>, for example, but as far as we knew, Martin only had it one time at 5 months of age…). <br />
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Martin was scheduled an operation to drain the liquid out. It’s a simple surgery , but requires complete anesthesia. The same day we came home from the hospital, and turn on the TV, Martin made a face, and started pointing at the TV, like wow, THAT is how it sounds … It broke my heart.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>After that, he made a HUGE improvement.</b></span> Really quick as well. I do feel guilty sometimes for not having thought of that earlier. But no one never suspected that his delay in speech was due to bad ears. <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Only if I knew that those things are related, I would have done something before.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>BE AWARE! Your child can have fluid in the middle ear (otitis media) <u>without you noticing it</u>!</b></span> </span> <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>As it can cause absolutely NO PAIN and your child will not complain.</b></span><br />
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<b>Parents, check if your child has any of the following symptoms:</b><br />
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- Change in the sleeping/eating habits<br />
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- Talks less than usual <br />
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- Unresponsive or uses gestures instead of talking<br />
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- Needs to have information repeated<br />
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- Asks to turn up the sound<br />
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- Rubbs/ pulls the ears<br />
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- High irritability<br />
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- Difficulty keeping balance / running / jumping<br />
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Resource: <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ear-infections/symptoms-causes/dxc-20199484">Ear infection (middle ear)</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Be aware! Your bilingual child’s speech delay can be due to fluid collection in the middle ear. - <a href="http://ctt.ec/7zi17" rel="nofollow">Click to tweet</a></b></span> <br />
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<a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/07/how-to-prepare-yourself-to-be-speaking.html">How to prepare yourself to be a speaking model for your child.</a><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2015/04/inspirational-quotes-about-language-for-bilinguals-language-learners.html">Inspirational Quotes about Language for Bilinguals and Language Learners </a></i><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/04/bilingualism-speech-delay.html">Bilingualism and speech delay. How can you help? </a></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/01/what-should-i-order-mortadella-alphabet.html"><b>Fun way to learn letters and start writing:</b> What should I order? Mortadella alphabet! </a></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/05/naming-languages-with-their-proper-name.html"><i>Naming languages with their proper name.</i></a></span><b><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></i></b><br />
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<i><b><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/p/kids-radio-stations.html">Children's radio from around the world.</a></b> Let me know, if I am missing a radio station in your language.</i><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/p/russian-books.html">Kids Books in <b>Russian</b></a></i><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/p/russian-books.html#Russian%20Cartoons">Best <b>Russian </b>Children's Cartoons and Movies. - <span lang="RU">Лучшие Руссие Детские Мультфильмы и Фильмы.</span></a></i><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/09/list-childrens-books-in-polish-ksiazki-polskie.html"> List of children's books in <b>Polish language</b> - <span lang="PL">Lista książek po Polsku dla dzieci</span></a></i> <br />
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<a href=”http://www.trilingualchildren.com/“>Raising a Trilingual Child</a></div>Galina (Trilingualchildren.com)http://www.blogger.com/profile/03264861240628255746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395300355976041715.post-49146218327839119852017-02-20T02:25:00.002+01:002018-06-18T10:25:35.416+02:00Best Practices for Supporting Child's Minority Language Development in a Multilingual Family<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="80" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trilingualchildren.com%2F2017%2F02%2Fsupporting-minority-language-development-multilingual-kids.html&width=450&layout=standard&action=like&show_faces=true&share=true&height=80&appId" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="450"></iframe><br />
“Руль”(Rul’) is the first word my son said almost 7 years ago. It means a steering wheel in Russian. Back then I had lots of doubts whether or not I would succeed in passing on my heritage language and raising a trilingual child. I had exactly same worries you have right now. Would my son prefer speaking the father’s and the country’s language - Italian? Would he be able to speak with his Russian grandparents? <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/01/passive-language-learning.html">Would he be able to speak a third language that I and my husband communicate in with each other</a> - English? <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/04/bilingualism-speech-delay.html">Would speaking multiple languages cause a speech delay?</a> Would he mix the languages?<br />
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Two years into our family's trilingual journey my worries have doubled with
a birth of our little girl. How to share my time between the two kids?
How to support their language development, if they have such different
needs? One does not speak yet at all, another is already experimenting
with making phrases. And another worry, when the first words finally
came from my little girl's mouth: <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/02/language-multilingual-siblings-speak-to-each-other.html">What language would my children speak to each other?</a> Would they choose to speak the minority language, Russian, or would they prefer the country language, Italian?<br />
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Now
the time came when I am stressed more about my daytime job than about
my kids’ language development. They reached the very ambitious goal that
I set for them and myself. They are fluent in two languages and
understand and speak some of the third one. They are 5 and 7 year-old,
and have plenty of time to work more on their minority languages. I gave
them the tools to continue doing it on their own. So<a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/04/7-principles-teaching-child-to-read.html"> they both read Russian books</a>,
play (btw, they love building lego houses for their toy animals) and
speak almost exclusively Russian to each other, and sing in all three
languages.<br />
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Definitely <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2016/04/simple-way-to-motivate-your-bilingual-child.html">being motivated helped me a lot on this journey</a>,
but I would not go this far without my husband’s support and without
the following best practises of supporting minority language
development:<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>1. Changing the family language strategy as you go.</b></span></h3>
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It is ok to change your multilingual family language strategy at any time
and adjust it to your child’s language learning needs and to your family
dynamics.<br />
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Before the child is born we all
have a perfect plan in mind how to proceed with raising a bilingual or
multilingual child. What language to speak and when. But once we have a
little one in the arms, things change. We learn about our own and our
child’s abilities with every step of the journey. Do not hesitate to
adjust your plan. No need to be stressed about raising a polyglot, it is
much more important to have a happy child and family after all.<br />
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Also
different languages need to have a reinforcement at different age.
Sometimes what worked in the beginning of the journey does not always
work when child gets older. <br />
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2. Talking to your child & asking questions.</b></span></h3>
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No matter how old your child is, even a newborn, talk to him.<br />
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If
your child does not talk back yet, just describe what you do and see.
He is listening and learning. I could see great results from my <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/05/talking-while-walking.html">describing-everything-I-see practices</a>, my kids Russian vocabulary is very well developed.<br />
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If your child already speaks, ask questions. What? Who? Why?...<br />
I often do it after school or after reading a book or watching a cartoon. Kids are eager to talk when they are excited.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>3. Reading books.</b></span></h3>
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In
my opinion reading is what develops child’s vocabulary best, because
you can read books describing different life situations and covering
variety of topics that a child won’t always encounter in everyday life. <br />
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My
kids loved reading a book about a poney club and learning specific
terminology in relation to horses. If not for this book, they would not
have known all those words as they do not have an opportunity to attend a
poney club.<br />
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I would advice to start
building a home library with minority language books from the moment
your child is born. Just to give you an idea how big your home library
can be, about a year ago I decided to count how many Russian books we
have at home. We had more than 350 books! And I read almost all of them
with kids!<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>4. Living your cell phone aside.</b></span></h3>
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Wherever
you are home or outside - keep your cell phone away. Especially during
the first years, you need to dedicate your time and attention to your
child. It is difficult to talk to your child if you have a phone in
hands. Isn't it?<br />
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Make an extra effort to
talk to your child at playgrounds, don’t just seat with a smart phone in
hands. Describe what your child is doing there (here we are going back
to the point #2) How fast he is going down the slide, talk about his
feelings. You can play an imaginary game there too. Slides are often
becoming my kids boats / cars they going on them somewhere, see things. I
take part in it to be able to enrich their vocabulary and it is so much
fun!<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>5. Following your child’s interests.</b></span></h3>
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Children
are not very different from adults. If someone is talking about
something we are not interested in, we will not pay much attention to
it.<br />
If you’d like to maximize your child’s language learning, be aware what <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/06/being-proactive-in-exposing-your-child.html">he learns best when he is interested in the subject</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>6. Watching TV in minority languages and if it’s not possible, just turn it off</b></span></h3>
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I
find it a good practice for both kids and parents. Children always
listen and very attentive to whatever they hear around them. Even when
they play in another room, their ears are like little sponges that soak
whatever they hear, even sounds coming from TV in another room.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>7. Using variety of language learning resources.</b></span></h3>
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Small
children have a short attention span, so it is good to use different
games, activities and language input options throughout the day. Here
are some of the ideas:<br />
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- music CDs </h4>
When kids play they can listen to the music.<br />
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- <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/p/kids-radio-stations.html">kids radio stations</a></h4>
My kids love listening to a Russian kids radio station where other kids call in and chat with DJs <br />
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- audio books</h4>
You can find the same books you have at home and let your child listen to them read by a different person. <br />
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- board games</h4>
check, if you can add more rules to work more on their vocabulary or ask your child to vocalize the actions. <br />
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- picture lotto games</h4>
You can buy one or make it yourself.<br />
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- activity books</h4>
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- drawing and talking</h4>
This is perhaps my favorite activity for all age groups. Great for working on letter sounds and writing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixing art, material objects and imagination -<br />
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<h3>
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>8. Keeping a book always close to you, so you can read to your child aloud anywhere you go!</b></span></h3>
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I
always kept a book in my purse and still do. We read at a doctor's
office while waiting for an appointment; in a park, when kids get tired
running around and whenever I have a chance! You never know when the
time is right ;)<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>9. Connecting with other language speakers. </b></span></h3>
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I
am pretty much the only Russian language input for my children, but it
is obviously not enough. Children need to hear other people speaking the
languages they learn. There are several ways to achieve it:<br />
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- <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/05/preserving-grandchild-grandparent-bond.html"><b>Talking to relatives using video call programs</b> </a>such as Skype, Whatsapp, FB messenger etc, there is a huge choice now. <br />
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- <b>Connecting with the local community.</b> You can ask your country embassy for information. <br />
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- <b>Weekend
language schools </b>are available in some big cities. Kids often not only
learn the target language there, but also get extra instructions in
school subjects.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>10. Singing and telling bedtime stories. </b></span></h3>
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Until
recently my kids had a very long going to bed ritual. First I read a
book, then we were singing songs, and followed by a story. Can’t say it
was easy for me - it was rather tiring! But it is a truly wonderful way
to connect with kids.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>11. Making your child's language development as a priority number ONE.</b></span></h3>
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Make
minority language development as you goal for the first 5 years of your
child’s life and you will have less to worry about later. If children
know enough words and have no difficulty expressing themselves in
different situations, they will use the language with you. Besides you
won't need to be stressed about creating a NEED to speak the language.
You speaking the language to your child will be enough reason for him to
use it and speak it back to you. The only worry that will remain is to
continue support the language development as your child grows. Unfortunately kids slowly
detach from us making this task somewhat difficult. <br />
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You can find more about setting priorities reading my article: <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2015/05/how-to-raise-bilingual-child-parents-setting-priorities.html">http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2015/05/how-to-raise-bilingual-child-parents-setting-priorities.html</a><br />
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I hope my tips on raising a bilingual/ multilingual child will help you!<br />
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Good luck !<br />
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We live in Italy and Christmas is my kids’ favorite holiday because of the magic of the Christmas tree’s lights and, of course, because of lots of presents that Santa Claus brings them!
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How is Christmas celebrated in Italy?<br />
Christmas in Italy is celebrated on 25th of December, as in other catholic countries; however, I was surprised to learn that not all Italian catholic kids receive presents that day.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Who brings Christmas presents in Italy and when?</b></span></h3>
In many Northern Italian cities, which once belonged to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Serene_Republic">the Most Serene Republic of Venice</a>, children receive sweets and presents 12 days earlier!<br />
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The night from 12 to 13 December <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Santa Lucia</b></span>, a blind woman who is walking around towns and rings a bell, brings sweets and presents to the children living in the northern part of Italy: Trentino, Udine, Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona, Lodi, Mantova, Piacenza, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Verona regions. <br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Babbo Natale</b></span> (Santa Claus) and in some places <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Bambino Gesu</b></span> (Baby Jesus) , brings presents on the night from 24 to 25 December to the majority of Italians. Some lucky kids receive a second round of presents. <br />
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In Alto Adige, Trieste and Bari kids receive presents from <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>San Nicolas</b></span>. <br />
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In Napoli <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>la Befana</b></span>, a kind <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befana">Italian Christmas witch</a>, brings presents and sweets to kids the night of January, 5th. In other parts of Italy, she brings just sweets as an addition to the presents received from Santa Lucia, baby Jesus, Saint Nicholas or Santa Claus.<br />
La Befana often leaves a lump of coal (made of sugar) inside children's stockings to remind them that they can behave a bit better than the previous year. <br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Xmas tree and Presepe (Nativity Scene).</b></span></h3>
And another interesting discovery! Some of Italian houses have a presepe instead of a xmas trees. Presepe is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_scene">nativity scene</a> that families start building on 8 December. It contains small figures, some of them are even animated!<br />
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Every year the scene gets some improvement: a new figure or a decorative element is added. Italians take a particular pride in presepe. Many expose their work outside their homes, in a garden or in a window, for others to enjoy.<br />
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Italy is relatively small country, but it is HUGE if you measure it by the wast variety of dishes and recipes the country has to offer. Different regions have VERY DIFFERENT FOOD! You will not find the same standard Christmas dish. Every table in every family will be different.<br />
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However, a general preference can be notices: fish dishes in the south of Italy and meat dishes in the north.<br />
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The Christmas celebration starts with a dinner on Christmas Eve, called Vigilia in Italian. <br />
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Many course dinner runs upto the midnight mass which is the culmination point of the celebration. <br />
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The Christmas day is celebrated with the lunch.<br />
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Here are some menu examples.<br />
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<i>Christmas dinner (cena) menu from Cremona:</i><br />
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<i>- pate con gelatina and salumi, included salame cremonese.</i><br />
<i>- ravioli in broth</i><br />
<i>- cappone ripieno</i><br />
<i>- panettone stuffed with ricotta cream.</i></div>
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<i>Xmas lunch (pranzo) menu from Bergamo:</i><br />
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<i>- fish and veggitable appetiser (antipasto di pesce salmone e verdure)</i><br />
<i>- Russian salad (insalata russa)</i><br />
<i>- lasagna</i><br />
<i>- rabbit with polenta (coniglio con polenta)</i><br />
<i>- panettone or pandoro with mascarrpone cream</i><br />
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<i>- cappone ripieno</i><br />
<i>- tortellini in brodo</i><br />
<i>- lesso e arrosto</i><br />
<i>- biscotti</i><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Italian Traditional Christmas Dessert.</b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>1. PANETTONE from Milan</b></span></div>
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Globalization makes its impact even here. Originally from Milan Italian Christmas cake Panettone starts appearing on the tables around the globe and slowly even in the south of Italy.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>2. PANFORTE from Siena</b></span></div>
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Italian dry Christmas cake Panforte is delicious! It has nuts, figs, citrus pills mixed with honey and flour. It is so rich in taste. The one on the photo we bought while traveling in Tuscany. It is one of our family's favorite cakes! even our kids love it! Traditional panforte is the one you should try first.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>3. PANDORO from Verona</b></span></div>
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Pandoro is an Italian Christmas cake with butter and eggs as main ingredients that is covered with powder sugar. If you cut it like on the photo below, each piece of the cake is a star. This makes Pandoro a great center piece of Christmas tables. You can decorate it with fruits, sparklers or even with candles as my kids did. You can add cream layers too, or just serve it with mascarpone cream on a side, as we did.<br />
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Try to prepare a Pandoro using the following Italian approved <a href="http://profumodilievito.blogspot.it/2007/11/il-pandoro.html">Pandoro recipe.</a><br />
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Gubana is a very particular Italian Christmas cake from Udine.<br />
Try to make your Gubana, following this <a href="http://profumodilievito.blogspot.it/2009/04/e-un-dolce-friulano-tipico-delle-feste.html">Gubana recipe. </a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>6. TORRONE from Cremona</b></span> </b></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>7. MOSTACCIOLI cookies from Naples</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>8. CROCCANTE from Naples</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>9. SUSAMIELLI from Naples</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>10.ROCCOCÒ from Naples</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>11.BOSSOLÀ from Brescia</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: black;">Even if my favorite Italian Christmas cake is a traditional Panettone, I love the delicate taste of BOSSOLÀ, it is another great Italian Christmas cake all Pandoro lovers should try! </span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>13. BISCIOLA from Valtellina (Sondrio)</b></span><br />
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It is also called <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Pan di fich</b> </span>or <b><span style="color: #134f5c;">P</span></b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>anettone valtellinese</b></span>. Typical Italian Christmas sweet from Valtellina, Sondrio province, Lombardia region. Bisciola is made of dry fruits, butter and eggs.</div>
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I watched the wonderful work that my child's Speech Language Pathologist
(SLP) was doing and I noticed that many pronunciation problems can be
prevented, if parents act early and stimulate child's tongue and mouth
muscles development. I talked about it with the doctor and she confirmed
it. Also she was so kind and agreed to share some tips with you,
parents of bilingual and trilingual children. She also writes about "R" </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pronunciation</span> difficulties. I hope this article will help you! </span><br />
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<i>by my child's SLP </i><br />
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I and my colleagues, other
speech language pathologies, have noticed that among the children, who
are accessing our services, there are increasingly more children with
bilingual and trilingual abilities. These children have speech defects
because of the phonetic characteristics of the secondary languages which
quite often are opposite to the ones of their primary language, and
because of this they also have different learning times.<br />
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Not always the children have a correct perception of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccal_space">buccal space</a> and of the movement that the tongue can perform in it, so <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>one
has to work on the phonetic apparatus perception, sensitivity and the
muscular strength in order to obtain a joint correction, that including
cheeks, lips and tongue.</b></span><br />
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This
resulting so-called "mouth" gymnastics consists of simple exercises that
every willing and imaginative parent can work on with their child, by
making it fun as a game.<br />
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<u><span style="color: #134f5c;">MAKING FACES</span></u></h4>
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Normally
one starts with expressive grimaces that involve all the muscles of the
face: in front of the mirror, together with the parent and any siblings<br />
we make the ugly face,<br />
the beautiful,<br />
the sad,<br />
the angry …….<br />
we raise eyebrows ,<br />
we move our nose,<br />
we inflate and then deflate our cheeks and so on ... whatever comes to mind !<br />
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<u><span style="color: #134f5c;">BLOWING GAMES</span></u></h4>
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The blowing games are also important, such as :</div>
<ul>
<li> blow bubbles in water with different types of straw ( long, short , thin , thick , ... )</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>make soap bubbles,</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>move small cotton, paper balls or marbles by blowing on them. You
can invent a football game, where you have to do as many goals as
possible by moving the ball only by blowing on it ),</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>move small pieces of paper from one container to another holding
them by sucking though a straw, slowly increase the distance and use
thicker paper.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>inflate and deflate our cheeks or hold them inflated for more time (remembering to breathe through your nose ! ) ... .</li>
</ul>
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<u><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>LIPS</b></span></u></h4>
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Exercises for the lips such as:<br />
<ul>
<li>send many kisses ,</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>hold "a kiss" for a minute ,</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>"pinch" the lips around the edges , </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>make the noise of a car ( BRRRRR ... .. making sure that only the lips vibrate )</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>alternate the position from a kiss to a smile ( or more simply to say Italian "I" and "U" ) ,</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>hold small balls of paper and for spitting them out as far away as possible, </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>press the lips strongly and then produce a burst (like the sound of a bottle of sparkling wine cap)</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><u><b>TONGUE</b></u></span></h4>
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And then come the exercises for the tongues which normally are the most difficult to execute. <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>These
are to be performed with the mouth open and the tongue pointed outwards
so that it rests on the lower lip and the jaw does not "slip" forward:</b></span><br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>licking a candy (or other kinds of lollipops)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>touching only the upper teeth</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>touching the "rugae" (located behind the upper incisors at the beginning of the palate)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>touching the upper lip</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>touching the corners of the mouth alternatively </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>same exercise as the previous one, but going beyond the corners of the mouth</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>circular tongue movements, clockwise and counterclockwise</li>
</ul>
<b>TIP: </b>In order to help with these movements, one could
spread a bit of Nutella in the point that is to be reached with the tip
of the tongue.<br />
<ul>
<li> touching the four top and bottom molars alternatively</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> "massaging" the palate forward and back without moving the tongue beyond the upper front teeth </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>smacking the tongue, trying not to move the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_arch">dental arches</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>opening and closing the mouth holding the tip of the tongue onto the upper palatine wrinkles (“rugae”) without moving it</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>to repeat "LaLaLaLaLa ... ..LeLeLeLeLe ... ..LiLiLiLi ... LoLoLoLo
...... LuLuLuLu" being careful that the mouth does not move and that the
tip of the tongue always touches palatine wrinkles without reaching the
teeth.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>to repeat "TATATA TETETE ... ... ..." changing the vowels etc.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>to repeat "LALATATA ..." changing voice etc.</li>
</ul>
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Please note that <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>all of these exercises are intended to acquire a particular muscle capability therefore, during the execution, <u>the precision of the movement is always more important than its speed!</u></b></span><br />
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<u><b>PRONUNCIATION OF "R" (ITALIAN)</b></u></h4>
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As for the phoneme R the question is a bit more complicated.<br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><br />If by the age of five (5) years, the child is not yet able to produce it, it is best to consult a speech therapist.</b></span><br />
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As
a matter of fact this sound is rather complex from an articulatory
standpoint: the tip of the tongue must rise against the palate and move a
bit forth, it creates a flow of air that passes between the tip of the
tongue and the palate while keeping the tip in the top position to
produce the vibration.<br />
Very often parents force their children to
say it, even if they are not capable of doing it, however, this will
lead to an incorrect setting that will result in the known French R.<br />
<br />
It 's good to know that <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>for a speech therapists is usually easier to correct an absent R that to correct an altered R</b></span>; also <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>waiting
over a certain age will make things more complicated as the child will
get used to his way of talking and the correction will become more
difficult.</b></span><br />
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The parent will have to figure
out if this is just a speech problem (which will be easily fixed) or
abnormalities linked to other pathologies, such as<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>speech or language delay,</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>deafness,</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>bad habits such as prolonged use of the pacifier and baby bottles,
thumb sucking (all these ones make the tongue used to stay low).</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>there may be a short lower <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenulum_of_tongue">frenulum of tongue</a>
that leads to an incompetent tongue, environmental allergies and / or
chronic conditions such ear infection- all these provoke an exclusively
oral breathing, so the tongue lays always low - (an examination with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiology">audiologist</a> is recommended)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>a sore tooth occlusion with alteration of the bite or</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>an arched palate, </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>an atypical swallowing (an examination with an orthodontist is recommended).</li>
</ul>
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If there no one of these complications is present, it means that the
child simply has not found an autonomous way to develop skills useful
to produce various sounds of the language and thus it will be possible
to help him.<br />
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<i>I hope the tips that my son's speech and language pathologies shared here will help your child avoid seeing one.</i><br />
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This post is a part of the ABC’s series. Today's letter is "L" and !"L" is for "Letters"! Since I raise trilingual children that speak Italian, Russian and English, I thought of offering you some letter learning activity with a multilingual twist.<br />
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Just think Russian language also has a sound “L”, but the letter is written differently - ”Л”. Or Russian "B" corresponds to an English sound "V".
My Russian-Italian-English trilingual kids , who I <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/10/Teaching-letter-sounds-before-letter-names.html">taught the letter sounds early</a>, are doing pretty well in distinguishing the letters from different alphabets. They <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/04/7-principles-teaching-child-to-read.html">read in Russian and Italian </a> and successfully experimenting with English. (I write "experimenting" because I do not really teach them, they just try to read English words to me and I correct them and explain some rules).<br />
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If you are raising bilingual/trilingual kids it is always a good idea to point out to them that the same letter can have a different sound in another language they are learning. <br />
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If you are raising a little global citizen, who speaks one language only, it is never too early to talk about the differences this world offers, including different alphabets: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabets">Cyrillic</a> , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet">Latin </a> , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet">Greek</a> , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_script">Arabic</a> ….<br />
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1. Pick some letters from different alphabets. Write them on a piece of paper or use printables I created for you.<br />
Below you can find a worksheet with a letter "L" from Latin alphabet and a worksheet with a letter "Л" from Russian.<br />
Use free printables downloads of Russian and Latin alphabet following the links below: <br />
<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-4JGWJGbKqZN1dtcE5lTmNEVXc">Free printable alphabet letters for preschoolers. ALL letters of ABC alphabet</a> / <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-4JGWJGbKqZN1dtcE5lTmNEVXc">Рабочие листы для бесплатного скачивания и печати с буквами английского алфавита</a><br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-4JGWJGbKqZN1dtcE5lTmNEVXc">Free printable Russian alphabet letters for preschoolers.</a><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-4JGWJGbKqZbnBRdjh3T1lNZ2M"> ALL </a><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-4JGWJGbKqZbnBRdjh3T1lNZ2M">letters of</a><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-4JGWJGbKqZbnBRdjh3T1lNZ2M"> Russian АБВ alphabet / Рабочие листы для бесплатного скачивания и печати с буквами русского алфавита.</a><br />
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2. Take an old magazine or a newspaper with colorful pictures. <br />
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3. Ask your child to cut pictures out (small kids can easily do without scissors by just ripping pieces off from the magazine with their hands) and<br />
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4. Glue them with a stick glue to the paper following the letter shape.<br />
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Talk to your child about existence of different languages and alphabets and write down words that start with the letter of your choice in your language.<br />
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Your child will definitely enjoy reading the book called “Fairy tales from a travel suitcase” - wonderful stories collected by Svjatoslav Sakharnov during his travel around the world. The stories come from England, Nigeria, Africa, Efiopia, Tanzania, Aliaska, Cuba, India, Vietnam, Indonezia, Afghanistan, Japan, Australia, Oceania, New Zealand! One of the stories tells us about a woman living in a bottle. Are you already curious to learn more about her life? :)<br />
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"Сказки из дорожного чемодана" - это замечательные книга сказок, собранных писателем <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%A1%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87">Святославом Сахарновом</a> во время своих путешесткий по миру. В этой книге вы прочтете сказки из Англии, Нигерии, Африки, Эфиопии, Танзании, Аляски, Кубы, Индии… Представляете, в одной из них женщина жила в бутылке! Теперь вам наверное не терпится открыть книну и узнать ее историю. <br />
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И в качестве дополнения к рассказам, рекомендую заглянуть на<a href="http://sakharnov.ucoz.ru/photo/"> офицальный сайт писателя,</a> поддерживаемый его сыном, и увидеть фотографии из путешествий автора.<br />
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Полезные ссылки: <br />
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<a href="http://amzn.to/29SXy7e">Книги </a><a href="http://amzn.to/29SXy7e">Святослава Сахарнова на Amazon</a> <br />
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Книга<a href="http://amzn.to/2as9izx"> </a><a href="http://amzn.to/2as9izx">"Сказки из дорожного чемодана" на Amazon</a></span>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjztERxfWirfz5DqjrydZNc4qZPpaFJyWqoiwfWlVDHzHjRowg8xU_RiV3EvLYceGTscKu9HTIPzcgOcP4LdgjHKVJMtNVbS6hqshyphenhyphenHfT3dz1CXk8-i4Yq3iTNyQ7nlvSwqLbtbz2W54211/s1600/teaching+bilingual+child+how+to+write.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjztERxfWirfz5DqjrydZNc4qZPpaFJyWqoiwfWlVDHzHjRowg8xU_RiV3EvLYceGTscKu9HTIPzcgOcP4LdgjHKVJMtNVbS6hqshyphenhyphenHfT3dz1CXk8-i4Yq3iTNyQ7nlvSwqLbtbz2W54211/s320/teaching+bilingual+child+how+to+write.jpg" width="320" /></a>I try to follow my kids' natural interests as I teach them languages. I started introducing letter sounds while reading books and worked on letter - sound recognition day after day through introduction of different activities.
Both of my <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/04/7-principles-teaching-child-to-read.html">kids learned how to read well before school</a>. My girl impressed me with reading 3 letter words at the age of 3. ( There was no pushing on my side.)<br />
Writing came on its own as a by product of my affords towards teaching them how to read for both of the kids.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here are some activities I recommend to help your kids to start writing in minority language:
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>1. Drawing and writing </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"></span></span>I find drawing together with kids is a very important activity that entertains a wide range of age group: babies, toddlers and elementary school kids.You can teach so many things, without your kids realizing all the learning they are doing! <br />
It can be drawing and labelling, writing a story and illustrating it. Creating your own book, a calendar...<br />
In the beginning you do most of the work, but as a child grows and learns, his/her work becomes more and more independent. These days I am amazed by my kids creativity!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>2. Playing games where writing is involved</b></span></span>
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<a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/01/what-should-i-order-mortadella-alphabet.html">Pretend play “a Restaurant”</a> is such a great game! Kids love to be waiters and write down orders. Lots of orders! Get ready to pretend eating all the dishes you have order :)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>3. Dictation</b></span></span><br />
When kids already mastered the letters and writing words, try to experiment with short dictations. First use simple words, then funny phrases and sentences. Allow your child to participate: start a sentence and let him finish it.<br />
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<b>Tip!</b> Use a notebook (btw, I mean the paper one not the computer;) for writing in minority language. Especially for elementary school kids, buy the same type of notebook your child uses for majority language to work in parallel on his minority language. My son just loves the idea of having his Russian language notebook. Give the minority language the same value as to the school's language.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>4. Use workbooks/ worksheets with letters in your language</b></span></span><br />
In Russia we call it “propisi”. I found great ones with transparent pages that also show the start point for writing a letter and indicate the direction of writing.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><b>Note: do not expect a lot from small kids. Let them write, make mistakes. Only with time and a lot of practice you will see a result.
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These are just some activities to help you get started. Try them. Experiment. Work on developing your child's interest for writing based on his other interests.
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>SOME TIPS FOR PARENTS TEACHING KIDS HOW TO WRITE:</b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>- Attention: do not criticize!
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Even if your child is open to corrections and you already correct him/her speaking. Be extremely careful while correcting mistakes in writing. Do not over criticize him/her. You do not want your child lose interest and stop writing. Everything will come.
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>- Be prepared for unusual ways of writing:</b></span></i><br />
The letters might dance up and down. Your child might break the word in many different places to start it writing from a new line or, another extreme, write a sentence as one long word. He will not always follow the left to right or the right to left writing rule. Your child will make mistakes. And thus, comes next:
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>- Be patient:</b></span></i><br />
Your child needs time to figure things out.
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I hope this helps.
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I’m always happy to hear about your own experiences. Please leave your comment below. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/11/multilingual-family-interview-home-language-different-from-community.html">Multilingual Family Interview: When your <b>home languages are different from community language. </b>Plus resources for teaching phonics and reading to children in English. </a></span><br />
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If you’d like your child to love nature, read him or her these short stories by Nikolay Sladkov. In this book nature can breath and animals can talk and think aloud. The author attentively describes everything he saw himself while walking in the Russian woods. He opens the secrets of nature and triggers your child’s imagination.<br />
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<span lang="RU">You can find books by <a href="http://amzn.to/28P8nLm" rel="nofollow">Nikolay Sladkov on Amazon </a></span><br />
<span lang="RU">I found some other great books by the same author in English and Japanese! </span><br />
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<span lang="RU"><span lang="RU">Хотите, чтобы ваш ребенок полюбил природу? - Почитайте с
ним книги Николая Сладкова. В них природа дышит, а птицы и звери
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<i><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/p/russian-books.html">Kids Books in <b>Russian</b></a></i><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/09/list-childrens-books-in-polish-ksiazki-polskie.html"> List of children's books in <b>Polish language</b> - <span lang="PL">Lista książek po Polsku dla dzieci</span></a></i> <br />
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Interview with Dani Lechner, who grew up in a bilingual city and is bilingual from birth.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Question 1: How is it to grow up bilingual in a bilingual city?</b></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8TeLPpsYiM3iaKtBFILppTTapR_L4m0kHKyeob-RV5cdwwSunMsigy31ELLNE6ea56eqvrAxnxCR1JhZo6YN27h0ueq5poD0JlLpFZA1Wa4N3SyBkU6IBATOhVf8RPSOalvRAEXdcJ28e/s1600/Interview+growing+up+bilingual+in+a+bilingual+city.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8TeLPpsYiM3iaKtBFILppTTapR_L4m0kHKyeob-RV5cdwwSunMsigy31ELLNE6ea56eqvrAxnxCR1JhZo6YN27h0ueq5poD0JlLpFZA1Wa4N3SyBkU6IBATOhVf8RPSOalvRAEXdcJ28e/s320/Interview+growing+up+bilingual+in+a+bilingual+city.jpg" width="320" /></a><i>I grew up on the east coast of Canada in a bilingual city. French and English were a part of my home, my community and my entire environment from the beginning. At home and in my immediate family everyone spoke French and English. I went to French school till I was 18 but English was present everywhere else. </i><br />
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<i>Many of my family members chose to only speak English many only French.<br /><br />I cannot even remember when I couldn't speak either French or English. The way it was in my family is you choose which language is most comfortable for you and that's it. For instance my maternal grandmother spoke mostly English with us although she can speak both languages. And when she spoke we just answered in French which came easiest for us since we were in French school. With some of my friends I was more comfortable speaking English although I identify most with the French side. <br /><br /><br />It's somehow hard to explain but where I come from everyone is bilingual, if you're not it’s almost weird. So from the very beginning I was immersed in both French and English equally. There were periods growing up where I was most comfortable speaking French and other periods (like now) where I feel more comfortable speaking English.<br /><br /><br />I never realized what a great gift my parents had given me until I was an aupair in France when I realized that no one was bilingual. It was quite a surprise to be honest. I just assumed everyone was bilingual. I'm very privileged to have had such an upbringing and I'm happy that I can also offer my children the same ;)</i><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><br />Question 2. What language did your parents speak to you when your were little? Did they mix the languages? How about code-switching? </b></span><br />
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<i>My parents spoke French to us and sometimes my mother would speak English, depending on her mood I guess :) and YES we 100% mix languages all the time. As a matter of fact they've even starting calling it a French dialect because it's a mix of French English and "old" 1700 French which no one uses anymore except where I grew up. The "proper" French we learn in school and same for English. And therefore yes code-switching masters in our house growing up ;) but it was also fun because if we were around people who only spoke English we would secretly speak French so they wouldn't understand and vice versa. The negative side of this story is that the code-switching has actually become a language we call Acadian, and it's sometimes difficult for some to speak "proper" French (meaning only French).</i><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><br />Question 3. Since you grew up speaking two languages and often were code-switching, do you feel any difficulty speaking only one language, when you speak to a monolingual person?</b></span><br />
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<i>Interesting question. To be honest not really. The one thing I would say is that because we speak a dialect in French it's sometimes difficult to be understood by others because some words are pronounced different. But generally no problem keeping to one language :)</i><br />
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When our family started <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/04/exposing-our-kids-to-languages.html">the trilingual journey</a> more than 6 years ago, I had no idea if I would succeed in passing my mother tongue onto my two children. I simply launched myself into this adventure. Now my kids are 4 and 6 years old and can speak, read and write in Russian, my mother tongue. I can not believe that I did all this work by myself. I set a goal - the maximum fluency level my children can possibly reach - and I went for it.<br />
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What is the recipe you might ask?<br />
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I believe <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/07/no-english-motivation-is-key.html">being motivated yourself is a part of successfully raising bilingual /trilingual children</a>,<br />
as for the rest - <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>just give your child what he enjoys the most and what he is interested in. Give it all in the minority language! </b></span><br />
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What babies like is exactly what they need for starting learning the language you speak.<span style="color: #134f5c;"> They need face to face contact, mommy’s and daddy’s smiles, baby talk. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Talk to your baby all the time. Use simple sentences. Point to things and name them. </span><br />
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“Babies are taking statistics while listening to us” , as Particia Khul has noted in her TED talk. The test have proved that "It takes a human being (not audio or video!) for babies to take statistics!" (7:08 minute of the video)<br />
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Read my article "<a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/04/bilingualism-speech-delay.html">Bilingualism and Speech Delay. How can you help?</a> for more insights on this topic.<br />
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<a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/05/talking-while-walking.html">The Best Way to Start Building Your Bilingual Child's Vocabulary</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/04/bilingual-child-when-to-start-reading.html">When to start reading to your baby?</a> <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/04/bilingual-child-when-to-start-reading.html"></a><br />
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What do toddlers like? - They like being with their parents, play, sing, read books, draw and move. The are full of energy. You just need to direct it a way that works best for language learning and vocabulary development.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Incorporate teaching into play.</span> It is not as difficult as it sounds. Do not associate word “teaching” here with a class room settings. Remember that at this age kids learn well while moving. Turn on a song or sing yourself. I am sure you have something similar to the English “head shoulders knees and toes” song. If not you can make up your own! <br />
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Here is how we had fun with the Russian “Wind is blowing in the face”.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Add more words when describing an object to your child.</span> If he makes a mistake, <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/07/should-i-correct-my-child-speaking.html">correct it indirectly by simply rephrasing, repeating what the baby says</a>. <br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Read as much as you can</span> during this period. Select books on different subjects. <br />
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Would you like to know why your baby does not want to sit still while you are reading to him and what you could do about it? You will find some answers in <br />
<a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/05/how-to-read-to-baby.html">Your Toddler Doesn't Like to Read?</a> article.<a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/05/how-to-read-to-baby.html"></a><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/10/Teaching-letter-sounds-before-letter-names.html">Teach letter sounds</a></span>, too, especially, if you’d like your child to be literate in your language.<br />
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Here are <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/04/7-principles-teaching-child-to-read.html"> 7 simple principles to keep in mind while teaching your child how to read</a><br />
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Watch this Video by Floating University lecture, Professor Steven Pinker , who is talking about the nature of language acquisition in children. <br />
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">PRESCHOOLER (3-5 years old)</span></span></b><br />
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What does a preschooler want? Same as a toddler, but now he is ready to play with friends.<br />
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My kids play with each other speaking their minority language only. They often sing songs in other languages, but speak Russian all the time no matter who is around them. Read about <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/02/language-multilingual-siblings-speak-to-each-other.html">7 facts that can determine the language spoken between multilingual siblings</a>.
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">SCHOOL AGE (5-8 years old)</span></span></b><br />
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What do first graders like? - school experience is very new to them. They love writing in a pretty notebooks with pretty pan and pencils. Just use this opportunity to start a new routine. Get a notebook for your home language and <b><span style="color: #134f5c;">“play school” at home.</span></b><br />
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My kids both 4 and 6 years old have a notebook for Russian, where they write stories, short and simple dictations. I take whatever they covered at school and use it as a base for our fun lessons. Yes, I invent lessons myself. It is not very difficult. These lessons do not have to be long.<br />
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Write notes to each other, shopping lists.<br />
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Read more books about animals, adventure.<br />
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Magazines and interactive games are something they are interested in. Have them available for your child in your language.<br />
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Travel, visit museums. Talk about things you see and experience together. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>TWEENS (9-12 years old)</b></span></span><br />
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<i>I am not quite there yet with my kids. I will add more details later. </i><br />
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Right now I can only assume, that they would like to spend even more time with the friends. Watch TV. I would watch together some news in the minority language on TV or online. They will probably already have a cell phone - it is a good idea to send messages to each other in your minority language.<br />
If kids have hard time reading books, perhaps having Comics around the house could trigger kids interest in books.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>TEENS (13-18 years old)</b></span></span><br />
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What do teens like? - learn more facts, watch TV, hang out with the friends... <br />
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This is a difficult period for many parents as I hear. <br />
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<i><b>Do you already have tweens and teens? I would be happy to add your comments here! What do they enjoy?</b></i><br />
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Did I tell you that one of my trilingual children is trying to master perhaps one of the most difficult sounds in all the languages that have it - “R”. The first word he said was not "mama", it was "rul’" (руль) which is “steering wheel” in Russian. So it is one of the first sounds he was able to pronounce, but unfortunately the tongue had remained in not the correct position accord to his SLP. Happily everything is getting better now and his guttural R is finally changing to the rolling R. <br />
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I am sure my child is not alone with this kind of problem, and in some cases parents can help to correct their child's pronunciation. I talk about it in my earlier article: <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2013/06/correcting-your-child-pronunciation-problem.html">Ha ha ha or correcting your child's pronunciation problem.</a><br />
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I really liked <a href="http://discoveringtheworldthroughmysonseyes.blogspot.it/2016/02/bilingual-kids-tips-on-rolling-your-rs.html">Frances’ post</a> where she shares tips from parents on how to roll R. Check it out, it might be just the right little push your child needs.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you want your child to speak your (minority) language with you and/or with a sibling? Or do you want her/him stop mixing the languages? Use this great tip from Berna to explain your bilingual child why it is important to stick to speaking the minority language and to speak it more often.</span>
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<i>by Berna </i><br />
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We live in the USA and have two kids. Their majority language is English and minority is German.<br />
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My older daughter always speaks to her little sister in our minority language. I usually leave it be when she slips and uses English words every now and then, but recently she has been talking more and more in English (majority language!) to her sibling.
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I kept reminding her by saying<br />
"Remember we need to speak to your sister in German so she can learn it too" .<br />
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My daughter’s response was<br />
"She's a baby. She'll learn it eventually".<br />
I guess it is something she heard another adult was saying.<br />
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She didn't seem to quite 'get' it why it is very important to speak German to her sister. So I decided to show it to her in the form of a little game.<br />
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1. The sponge represents our brain. Two colors represent our languages.<br />
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I have chosen the dark color for the majority language English and the light color to represent the minority language - German.<br />
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2. Each time we counted where we (must) speak English we made a dot with blue color.<br />
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3.We did the same for German in yellow. <br />
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4. “Now what happens when we choose English between us?” I asked her.<br />
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The German gets diluted and eventually we can't see it!<br />
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I asked my 5 year old what can we do so this doesn't happen?<br />
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5. She took the yellow color representing German and said "we speak speak speak it all the time" and added that daddy can get some yellow too cause he's too blue. <br />
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7. At the end we got a beautiful color and she understood that this is the result of keeping up with German. She also asked if we could add red for Turkish. “Absolutely!” - I said. “We just need to keep practicing so we don't forget the languages.”<br />
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If you have a child who refuses to speak with you in the minority language and who is old enough to understand the concept using the colors same as I did above, maybe this fun way of explaining how the brain works is just what you need!<br />
For those of you, who speaks more than one language to your child, try to use two sponges and more colors. Be creative! :)<br />
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<a href=”http://www.trilingualchildren.com/“>Raising a Trilingual Child</a></div>Galina (Trilingualchildren.com)http://www.blogger.com/profile/03264861240628255746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395300355976041715.post-41753435474166219412016-02-21T15:49:00.000+01:002016-10-30T17:00:01.720+01:00Books in French by Ophélie Texier. Crocolou - half Crocodile & half Wolf. Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop - February 2016 <div class="fb-like" data-action="like" data-href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2016/02/kids-books-in-French-Crocolou-Ophelie-Texier.html" data-layout="standard" data-share="true" data-show-faces="true">
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Do you speak French with your kid? Your child surely will enjoy <a href="http://lacitedesvents.blogspot.it/2016/01/crocolou-mi-loup-mi-crocodile.html"><span lang="FR">"Crocolou aime les voyages"</span></a> , a beautiful book about a little crocodile Crocolou or... stop! He is not a crocodile. His mother is a crocodile, but his is father is a wolf! He and his little sister Marilou are a mixture of both: a crocodile and a wolf. Read more about the book on <a href="http://lacitedesvents.blogspot.it/2016/01/crocolou-mi-loup-mi-crocodile.html">Eiola's</a> website.<br />
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Keep in mind that there are more books written by <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oph%C3%A9lie_Texier">Ophélie Texier</a> about Crocolou. Here are all the titles listed in the order of publishing:<br />
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Crocolou aime avoir peur<br />
Crocolou aime les câlins<br />
Crocolou aime les voyages<br />
Crocolou aime ses copains<br />
Crocolou aime le sport<br />
Crocolou aime les gâteaux <br />
Crocolou aime la nature<br />
Crocolou aime sa petite sœur<br />
Crocolou aime être beau<br />
Crocolou aime le père Noël<br />
Crocolou aime son doudou<br />
Crocolou aime être amoureux<br />
Crocolou aime sa nounou<br />
Crocolou aime la fête !<br />
Crocolou aime son papa<br />
Crocolou aime les saisons<br />
Crocolou aime l'école<br />
Crocolou aime son chien<br />
Crocolou aime cuisiner<br />
Crocolou aime sa maman <br />
Crocolou aime les livres<br />
Crocolou aime jardiner<br />
Crocolou aime dire non</span>
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Some titles are available on <a href="http://amzn.to/1tk68FY" rel="nofollow">Amazon</a>. Enjoy!<br />
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<a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2015/10/multicultural-parenting-books-creative-kids-culture.html">10 Must Read Parenting Books for Raising Multicultural kids. </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2015/05/free-audio-books-for-kids-children-stories-online-English.html">19 Best Websites with FREE Audio books and Stories in English for Kids</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p> © 2017 Trilingual Children, Raising a Trilingual Child – All rights reserved </p>
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by Filipa
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As you already know from <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2016/01/life-story-bilingual-child-passion-for-languages.html">my previous post</a>, I am a mother of two beautiful trilingual children French/Spanish/English. We live in Perth, Western Australia. <br />
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My son Tiago has just turned 3 and my daughter Elisa is 23 months old. They are amazing little learners.<br />
As you will notice when your children reach that age, their little minds absorb much more than you expect. It is great fun and a privilege to witness their progress on a daily basis.<br />
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Tiago speaks French and Spanish as well as any same age little Aussie speaks English. He understands everything in English but for now it is his minority language, so he is not as fluent. <br />
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I am not worried about my children’s English since they are going to be schooled in Australia. I’d rather focus on the French and Spanish while they are little.<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b> I feel that the more efforts I put into these languages now the harder it will be for them to give up later. </b></span>It requires a lot of discipline from us but it is well worth it.<br />
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Elisa is starting to associate the languages with the people. Where before she used to ask me for “agua” (water in Spanish) now she says “eau” and “agua” is just for dad.It is very amusing to hear my son correcting her when she speaks Spanish to me instead of French “Non, en français ma poupée” (No, in French my doll).<br />
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At home we use the OPOL method. I only speak French to the children and dad only Spanish. I am fluent in Spanish and my husband can also speak French, therefore none of us is excluded. <a href="http://www.trilingualchildren.com/2014/05/what-language-speak-to-bilingual-child-in-public-parent-dilemma.html"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>I never switch to English when talking to my children even if I am with people who cannot understand French.</b></span></a> I simply translate in English for their benefit. I do not want my children to think that English is better than French or Spanish.<br />
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I personally believe that switching to English would confuse them and would undermine my efforts in getting them fully proficient in the other languages. We want them to be able to communicate with their grandparents and cousins who live overseas. We cannot travel every year to France or the USA where my father-in-law lives. It is expensive. The journey is too long and we like to explore other places too.<br />
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We use several tools to ensure that they are learning French and Spanish without feeling excluded.<br />
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Let me share a few with you:<br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">1. Consistency </span></b></span><br />
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We never switch to English (our community language). When they learn new English words at daycare, unless they are singing a song, I will translate everything back to them in the form of a question. “Oh! You have played with the farm animals at daycare. What did they eat? (my son knows the difference between herbivores, carnivores and omnivores) Who else was with you?”<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">2. Video calling</span></b></span><br />
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We skype with my family in France once or twice a week. My children practise by speaking with their grandparents and their cousins. We also skype once a week with my father in law in New York and again they practise their Spanish.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b>3. Playdates </b></span><br />
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We are lucky to have South American friends who have same age children. We try to organize playdates at least once a month. <br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b>4. Reading Books </b></span><br />
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I own an <a href="http://www.letoboggan.com.au/">online bookstore specialized in international children’s books</a> and we are lucky to have access to hundreds of books in French and in Spanish. My children love books and they are my fiercest critics. So far they loved all the books I showed them.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b><br />5. Language Workshop for kids</b></span><br />
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I also run Spanish and French workshops for little ones. I take my son along with me so he can get more practice with other children but it also motivates the other children who do not have a Spanish or French speaking background. When I ask them to repeat new words, some of them are shy and Tiago says the words straight away, then the children give it a go.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">6. Activity Book</span></b></span><br />
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I am crazy about activity books, I love them since I was a kid and used to complete them the first couple of days of the holidays. Every time I go back to France or the USA I come back with at least 10kgs of books, same when I have friends who come over. I could never resist a book; I would cut down on my coffees or something else but not on books. However, it can be quite expensive but with the magic of internet you can now find many free activity books that you can download and print. For example, I use for the Spanish http://www.edufichas.com and for French <a href="http://www.teteamodeler.com/cahier-de-vacances/cahier-vacances.asp">http://www.teteamodeler.com/cahier-de-vacances/cahier-vacances.asp</a> . There are many more just Google “free activity books for a 2 or 3 year olds” and you will see many options offered. <br />
I still buy some activity books with stickers as both my kids love them.<br />
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My children love dancing and singing. I have CDs with French and Spanish rhymes.The other day I got really confused when my son asked me to sing the rhyme with the elephant. I told him I did not know any French rhymes with elephants. He then added, “Yes you know! The elephant that rocks on a spider web.” It is a Spanish rhyme but since he made his request in French I assumed he wanted a French rhyme! When we sing together, I let them finish the sentence. They would sing the last word, and then little by little they are singing the whole sentences and songs.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b>8. Making mistakes </b></span><br />
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When I read a story or I sing a song, I will change it to say something silly. They will correct me right away.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">9. Play games</span></b></span><br />
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For my last Spanish workshop I took a small Christmas tree with coloured balls and stars to decorate it. In order to hang a decoration on the tree the children had to tell me the colour and the shape of what they were picking up. Anything to make them speak.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">10. Flashcards & Memory cards </span></b></span><br />
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I like to use flashcards. I make my own for my workshops. The ones you can buy tend to be on a single topic at the time. I have made about 45 that cover several themes, such as the house, clothing, food, farm animals, wild animals…..<br />
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I also like to play memory cards with them. Again I make my own using different themes such as Halloween, Christmas, birthdays…..<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b>11. Comment on everything </b></span><br />
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I make comments when we are at the library for storytime or at the theatre. Obviously it is all in English, so I say something like “did you hear that? The cat jumped on the bed then went out of the window and he wasn’t even afraid”. I want to make sure they understand all the English words they are listening to but also I want them to tell me in our home languages what they remember of the story once it is over.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b>12. Encourage conversations </b></span><br />
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Even if they are little and do not speak clearly, it is always great to get them included in the conversation. Promote open end questions? Avoid “yes” or ‘no’ questions. For example, today it is windy I pointed the tree branches moving and asked my children to look at the branches and hear what noise the leaves were making. Then I asked them if the wind was blowing softly or strongly. They could feel the wind on their faces, was it cold, warm? Ask them to describe what they see and feel when they are older.<br />
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I do not correct them every time they make a mistake. It might make them want to stop talking.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b>14. Exposure </b></span><br />
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I take them to museums, art galleries, fairs, cultural events and exhibitions to develop their vocabulary.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b>15. Learning before travelling </b></span><br />
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When we are travelling, I organize little activities with them on the country we are going to visit. It is fun to see them recognizing some monuments and greet people in the local language.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>If your partner speaks English only</b></span></span><br />
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I get to speak to many mothers who are trying to raise their children in a language other than English and it seems that they find it more difficult when one of the parents speaks English only. What I tend to tell them is to avoid switching to English when their partner is home, keep speaking German, Polish whatever language you are teaching your child (remember consistency) and say it again in English for the partner’s benefit. This way the partner can also pick up a few words in the foreign language.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Raising children in other languages than the one spoken in the country we live in is not easy. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: black;">I always tell myself</span> <b>it all comes down to 3 words: </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">CONSISTENCY, DISCIPLINE and PERSEVERANCE.</span></b></span><br />
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When you speak different languages, you are able to think differently and be more tolerant and open to other cultures. We all really need it these days.<br />
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Now it is your turn! Let us know what you do to keep your children speaking their mother tongue.<br />
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Comment below or share your story!<br />
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husband Albis and I live in Perth, Western Australia. Everyday brings
more fun when we hear our children Tiago and Elisa speaking in French,
Spanish and English. I love listening to my son literally translating
jokes from one language to another. I cannot wait until Elisa is a bit
older to hear them sharing a secret code/language in French or Spanish. </i><br />
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