Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast: Raising Multilingual Children, Multicultural Living, Growing Up With Multiple Languages.

On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock podcast, we talk with Tatyana Leskowicz. Tatyana is a U.S. resident who was born from Russian parents. She can speak Russian, English and a little bit of Swedish after her short stays in Sweden and Israel. Tatyana is married to an American and they have two daughters (ages 4 and 1). They follow the One Parent, One Language system in their home and she also let her daughters spend a week with her parents for a 100% Russian environment

We also discuss the “Thank you letter from a Bilingual child” that she wrote and published on Bilingual Monkeys and how she encouraged her daughters to speak in English and Russian.

0:33 Tatyana is childhood  bilingual fluent in Russian and English

1:30 Thank you letter from a bilingual child

3:00 Reasons for learning another language

4:00 Losing the native language while growing up in the US

7:00 Correct pronunciations of Russian words

8:20 Learning how to speak Swedish

10:00 What Tanya’s parents did to preserve the heritage language

14:43 Did her parents use any tricks to preserve the language more

15:30 Finding books and materials in another language

17:45 Benefits of being a bilingual adult

22:55 What language Tatyana speaks with her sister

23:50 Tatyana’s family language portrait

24:50 Bilingual parenting

25:50 Dealing with bilingual speaking challenges

27:00 When did she started speaking Russian to her daughters

30:25 Spending time with the grandparents

31:00 Finding Russian communities

32:08 Playdates and switching languages

35:00 Reading, speaking and writing to preserve the heritage language

37:45 How did she encourage her daughter to speak in Russian more

40:00 Challenges of bilingual parenting and communication

45:00 What triggered her to speak Russian to her daughters

46:00 Immersion of her daughters in a 100% Russian environment

49:30 Advice for parents raising their kids bilingual

51:00 Developing a language in small children

Thank you letter from a Bilingual Child – posted in Bilingual Monkeys

Should parents push children to learn minority language

Code Switching vs. Borrowing in Bilingual Children

Setting the goals for your child’s bilingualism

How to find children book in your heritage language

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In this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we talk with Andrei Semenov. He is from Russia but he grew up in Colorado, USA. We talk about Andrei’s family portrait, how he came to America, how he learned to speak English and Russian while growing up. The ways he learned more about cultural differences and language barriers.

We also talk about his research with the University of Colorado on “Early Child Development” and “Battle Hymn by the Tiger Mom” book by Amy Chua.

00:36 Introduction to Andrei Semenov – childhood bilingual and fluent in Russian

1:42 How did they manage with moving to Colorado even when they cannot speak English?

2:30 Growing up in the US and studying in English speaking schools

3:11 Embarrassing part of speaking a new language

4:25 Materials and reference Andrei’s family used for minority language learning

5:30 How Andrei learned how to read in Russian

7:29 Summer trips and minority language learning in Russia with Andrei’s grandparents

8:30 Interacting with kids from Russia

11:00 Andrei’s own Russian community

12:36 Cultural Russian dishes

14:30 Discussing the research on “Early Childhood Development” with the University of Colorado

15:30 “Battle Hymn by the Tiger Mom” book by Amy Chua

18:30 Differences between bilingual and monolingual kids in relation to the research

20:00 Andrei’s Parents on the benefits of being bilingual

21:30 Using Russian in the professional world and advantage in the future

23:00 Benefits of being bilingual

24:30 Interest in bilingual and child development

Battle Hymn by the Tiger Mom book by Amy Chua

Why Raise a Bilingual Child? 4 Powerful Benefits

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We talk about Lina’s Bilingual Story and Family Language Portrait and what made her decide to raise her daughters Bilingual. The reason why she started Chinese lessons on her blog and the challenges of raising a Bilingual kid.

Why Best4Future Blog? It was created by Lina Dickson, a mother who grew up frustrated in learning a second language in a non-native environment. It also includes lessons on the simplest Chinese words for daily usage, cultural backgrounds and stories.

In this episode, here’s what we’ll cover

Items Mentioned in this Episode:

 Why my baby isn’t talking yet

 How babies acquire languages?

How I help my baby acquire a second language

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On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we talk with Cordelia Newlin De Rojas. She is the founder of the blog, Multilingual Mama. Cordelia is a Franco-American mother of two girls, Pacifique and Claude. Both of her daughters were born in different countries – Pacifique (New York) and Claude (Singapore).  She lives in Thailand with her daughters and her husband, who’s a Mexican.

We discuss how she was raised in a bilingual family, what she learned from traveling from a Western country to Southeast Asia, how she’s raising her daughters bilingual and her decision on homeschooling.

Homeschooling on a Budget

Speech Development: Keep Calm, Your Toddler will Talk

Puppets as Linguistic Catalysts

Raising Multilingual Children

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On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we talk with Annabelle Humanes, founder of the blog – Piri-Piri Lexicon. She’s a French language researcher married to a Portuguese and they reside in Germany with their daughter, LJ. They speak 4 languages at a daily basis and their aim is to raise their daughter to be a young global citizen.

Why Piri-Piri Lexicon? According to Annabelle, it sums up her family quite well. The lexicon part is because she spent 4 years of her student life researching bilingual children’s vocabulary development for a PhD and carried on further research on the topic of word acquisition. Piri-piri is a chilli brought to Africa by the Portuguese (aka a multicultural chilli!). It is used in a delicious and simple Portuguese dish (piri-piri chicken – a family favorite) and represents her family’s love for (spicy) food and P’s love for cooking.

On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we give more tips and ideas on how to raise bilingual kids.  Bilingualism is more like a journey, but you still need to set up couple destinations so if you reach them – you will be happy with your journey. My special guest is Adam Beck, founder of Bilingual Monkeys. He came to Japan in 1996 and taught English to bilingual children at Hiroshima International School for a number of years. He has two children who speak Japanese and English. His wife is Japanese and they teach their kids language with the system – One Parent, One Language.

Bilingual Monkeys offers strategies and support for busy parents seeking to raise bilingual children. It was created by Adam who has worked with hundreds of bilingual children over the past 15 years, provides practical ideas and inspiration to help meet this challenge with greater success—and have more fun in the process.

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On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we talk about being a bilingual parent and expat as well as raising a bilingual child. My special guest is Helene Demetriades, a talented illustrator and a bilingual mother. She resides in Cyprus with her husband and her 15-month old son, Nicholas. Helene has been creating most of my illustrations for Bilingual Kids Rock. You can view more of her illustrations in her blogs at Won’t Draw you a Sheep and view it  in French, Ici on ne dessine pas de mouton.

I created this episode to give you a more detailed experience on how you can adapt to the culture and language while living in a foreign country. As well as how you can teach your kid another language in another country. Helene’s experience as a bilingual mom in a country such as Cyprus will help you understand the challenges and advantages of being a mom in a foreign country,

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On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we discuss the multilingual journey of a mother of two multilinguals . My special guest is Rita Rosenback. She is a language expert and the founder of a  Multilingual Parenting-Bilingual Children. Her main languages are English and Swedish but she also speaks German and Finnish. She’s also writing a book  bringing up bilingual children.

Rita Rosenback has outstanding career positions that are closely related to language are the following: translator, interpreter, language teacher, university lecturer and team leader. Her main inspiration for her career and life are her multilingual daughters and as she puts it, without her daughters, there would be no book.

I created this episode to give you a more detailed knowledge on how you can teach your kids to speak more than one language and also finding the balance between that and having a healthy relationship with them. With the help of Rita’s experience as she shares her journey on being a multilingual mom and having the courage to pursue what she’s passionate about — which is speaking and teaching languages.

Rita Rosenback with her daughters Minna and Daniela

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On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we discuss learning a second language in immersion schools. My special guest is my friend, Anna McGuigauri. She shares her experience with French immersion school. Anna resides in Canada with her husband and daughter, Alice. She speaks Russian, English and a bit of French.

I created this episode to give you more insights on what you can expect when you enroll your kids to immersion schools.

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