Meagan De Clerck is a multilingual mom of four. Meagan lives with her family in Northern Vermont and homeschools her children with a Montessori-inspired curriculum. Meagan’s children are trilingual; she and her husband use the one parent one language method in their home. Meagan speaks exclusively in Spanish to her children, her husband speaks exclusively in French, and they get English exposure from their community. Since we recorded this episode over the summer, Meagan has also started speaking Italian with her children every day at lunchtime (which you might recognize as the “time and place method”).

Meagan went to Montessori school as a child growing up in Houston, Texas. She has a Masters in International Policy and Crisis Management from the University of Rome La Sapienza and has lived and worked all over the world, including at an NGO in Kenya and throughout Central and South America.

Meagan is a great example of a parent teaching her children a language that is not her first language - if that’s you, or something you aspire to, I hope this conversation will provide some inspiration and reassurance that it can be done - and it doesn’t need to be perfect!

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