Expat Since Birth – A Life spent "abroad"a blog by a multilingual life...

I addition to my other post about bilingualism and homework,  I want to point out the importance of fostering the home language in all school subjects, not only literacy.
What many parents don’t realize until their children start going to school in another language, is that they will learn how to do maths, talk about science and all the other school topics, in the school language....

Growing up abroad being German is generally speaking nothing unusual, but considering the historical guilt related to the WWII we Germans from post-war generations are not sure how to behave those days, when our host countries celebrate liberation day...

Children love cartoons, movies, games and we all know that the vilains, the “bad guys” are not only characterized by features that make them unpleasant, but also by foreign accents.
Sociolinguist Calvin Gidney started to study language patterns in animated kid’s entertainment after noticing that Mufasa had an American accent, whereas Scar, the lion of the dark side, roars in British English in The Lion King. He analyzed 30 shows...

I know that writing this will upset some of my friends, but I want to share this because it came up many many times in the last weeks. At the latest FIGT (Families In Global Transition) conference we talked about identity and sense of belonging and as...