My name is Joana Sommerkamp. I have been reading your website and found it really interesting and helpful,thanks!!

I was born and raised in Spain, my mother is Portuguese and my father German, I speak both their languages plus Spanish since most of my life I grew up in Spain.

My partner is half Dutch half Japanese and we communicate in English.

January 2006 our son Mark was born in London and,obviously he has been hearing all sort of languages. I read years ago it was considered this could lead to confussion and delay speech on babies. But my sister-in- law is a pediatritian and she encouraged all the family to speak their own language. I am really happy about it and,being myself always used to hear several languages at home, I know it can only be a great advantage for our baby in the future.

Best Regards,
Joana Sommerkamp Cardoso

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Great web site, congratulations!
Be in touch soon!

Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

(Author of Raising Multilingual Children and The Multilingual Mind).

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This is terrific, thank you! Please let us know how to subscribe when available in print.

Lucia

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I just looked at the magazine.
This is something we really need! I’ll be a regular reader of this one!

Melissa

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I’ve just spent some time reading the magazine and think it’s fantastic!

The articles are very interesting and I can’t wait for the June issue to continue reading about the Korean love story.

Kirsten

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