When my son was born I decided I wanted him to be bilingual - his father's first language is German, and I am reasonably fluent too. I needed to get hold of some great German children's books. My goal was basically that more than half the books in his book shelf should be German kids' …
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Travel consequences: Raising bilingual kids
Over a decade ago when I hopped on a plane to Osaka, I didn't look far enough ahead to imagine that one of the consequences of travelling the world would be marrying someone with a different mother tongue and then jumping onto the journey of raising bilingual kids. No, I was just looking far enough …