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Multilingual Living Magazine

The May-June issue of Multilingual Living Magazine is finally here! Thinking about contacting a speech therapist? Be prepared with our tips before you make that appointment! And read one mother's experiences with her daughter's language ups and downs. What about Mother Tongue(s)? Why does our monolingual world assume we only have one? What is a mother tongue anyway? What should you do if bilingualism in your family has become too difficult? Should you give it up? Read through our experts' list of suggestions. You won't want to miss our interview with Kendall King and Alison Mackey, authors of The Bilingual Edge - Why, When, and How to Teach Your Child a Second Language as well as our review of their book. Don't miss Prof. Grosjean's fabulous article on bilingualism and the hearing impaired! Help hearing impaired children reach their full potential in life via bilingualism! As always, we have suggstions, support, tips and more which you won't want to miss!

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Cover Stories in the May-June 2008 Issue...

• Time to Consult an Expert? - You will want to read through our list of tips before making that initial call!
•Mother Tongue(s)? - What is a mother tongue and how are we supposed to define it/them?
• Expressing emotion in both languages - when it is ok to use BOTH languages to express emotion.
• Interview with Kendall and Alison - an exciting interview with the authors of The Bilingual Edge.
• The right of deaf children to be bilingual - Prof. Grosjean does it again with this fabulous article!
• Frequently Asked Questions - your most pressing questions about multilingualism answered!
• Time to give up bilingualism? - have you reached a point where you want to give up?
• Non-native French with a newborn - the trials and tribulations from the non-native language front!
• Win your very own SIGNED copy: The Bilingual Edge: Why, When, and How to Teach Your Child a Second Language! (Click Here!)
• And MUCH MUCH MORE!

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A Blog from the Bilingual Trenches

Has it come to this? Have my children finally stepped over to the dark side? The one where all I hear is English, English, English all day long?

My children still speak German with me and my husband. I can revel in that joy (thank goodness) but that is about where it ends. Outside of the Mama-Papa sphere, English has taken over my children like an annoying virus.

My oldest insists that knights only speak English and therefore feels it is important to speak English when he is being a knight (which is pretty much 24/7 these days). CLICK HERE to continue reading...

On the Radio!

Click on the player below to LISTEN to the founder's RADIO INTERVIEW with Kevin Henry, the Cultural Diversity Coordinator for the City of Bellevue, Washington, USA. (Or CLICK HERE to open the mp3 file directly.)

Misdiagnosed as Language-Impaired

As we reported in Multilingual Living Magazine: "As if being an immigrant isn’t tough enough, immigrants are also facing the predicament of their children being incorrectly diagnosed as having a language impairment! It just so happens that the linguistic errors which English-language learners make are similar to monolingual English-speaking children with language impairments."
CLICK HERE to read the full Science Daily article

Exciting Research

In 2004, Ellen Bialystok was the lead author on a study which revealed that individuals who grew up bilingual were better able to manage their attention than monolinguals when confronted with complex sets of rapidly changing task demands. For more information, read the Science Daily article.

In 2007 Ellen Bialystok was the lead scientist on another groundbreaking study which shows that bilingualism can help to protect against dementia. When compared with monolinguals, bilinguals are shown to have a 4-year delay in the onset of dementia. Read Baycrest Research Centre for Aging and the Brain report here.

What does all of this mean to us raising bilingual and multilingual children? Keep it up! Who knows how many benefits we are providing our children just by raising them in more than one language!

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