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Multilingual Living Magazine

The Winter 2009 issue of Multilingual Living Magazine is finally here! TRILINGUALISM? Yes we can! You have asked us to focus on trilingualism and boy do we have a fabulous line-up of articles for you to enjoy! Is bilingualism with child number two a little more difficult? You aren't alone in your struggles! And what about the language experts? What do they say about trilingualism? Is it bilingualism with just another language added? Author of the new book, Growing up with Three Languages, Xiao-lei Wang shares tips and suggestions in her exclusive interview for Multilingual Living Magazine. Did you know that multilingualism is all around us? Find out what two experts say about this. As always, we have suggestions, support, tips and more which you won't want to miss! CLICK HERE to preview the first few pages!

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Cover Stories in the Winter 2009 Issue...

• Trilingualism? Yes we can! - Find out how to raise your child with three languages!
• 4 Tips for parents of trilingual children - Make sure you are on track with this helpful guidance.
•From 3 languages to 4 languages! Going from trilingualism to quadralingualism - yes it IS possible.
• OPOL with a second child - when it just doesn't work out the same the second time around!
• Bilingualism one step at at time - because raising bilingual children takes patience and time!
• Frequently Asked Questions - your most pressing questions about multilingualism answered!
• Growing up with Three Languages - An exclusive interview with the author, Dr. Xiao-lei Wang (and a review of her book)!
•Our linguistic landscape - Two language experts show us how multilingualism is all around us.
• Win a $30 gift certificate from Language Lizard! (Click Here!)
• And MUCH MUCH MORE!

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The Benefits of Multilingualism

Michał B. Paradowski, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, on the benefits of multilingualism! CLICK HERE!

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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