The Bilingual Family Newsletter: Archives

Editor: Sami Grover

This exciting quarterly publication, now in its 23rd year, is designed to help all those families who, for various reasons, are in a situation where they can give their children (and themselves) the advantages of being bi- or multi-lingual. If you enter a subscription, you will be provided with a password giving you free access to the archive of back issues.

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Volume 11 : issue 1 [download]

Main Articles

Raising Your Wife With Yiddish – Binyumen “Ben” Schaechter

Two of Everything: Bilingual Twins – Mary Murata

One-Person-One-Language: Psychological Aspects – Rosemary Kneipp

Queries

My son’s teacher wants me to move away from our One-Parent-One-Language strategy. How do we handle the situation?

Volume 10 : issue 3 [download]

Main Articles

Susan’s Story – Tu Ngo

An English-Swedish Success Story – Elisabeth Mossler-Lundberg

Students’ Initiative – Birgit Szymanski

Three Langauges Under One Roof - Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

Queries

Our son receives very little minority language input. Should I break the One-Parent-One-Language rules and also use the minority language sometimes?

My daughter is beginning to speak. Should we be strict about One-Parent-One Language at this stage?

Volume 10 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

Settling in a Foreign Land – Marjukka Grover

The Role of Literacy in Bilingual Development – Sue Wright

Raising Children in Yiddish: Our Experience – David and Simone Sherman

Maintaining Danish Language & Culture in the USA – Bitten Hesse

Volume 10 : issue 1 [download]

Main Articles

Biculturalism: Looking Back As I Leave Home – Alice Byram

Bicultural Identities: A Study of Asian Origin Children – Paul Ghuman & Anita Khamoth

Families in Many-Tongued Mauritius – Ted Witham

Queries

How many languages can a child cope with?

Which school should we choose for our German-English bilingual son now we have moved to Czechoslovakia?

Volume 9 : issue 4 [download]

Main Articles

Problems in Bringing Up Children Multilingually – by Gerran Thomas

Two Languages, Three Cultures – Kathleen S. Foley

Queries

Adoption & Bilingualism

Volume 9 : issue 3 [download]

Main Articles

The Role of the Mother in Children’s Acquisition of a Minority Language – Mary Murata

Multilingual Mums – Frances Rodriguez

German Saturday Schools: A Progress Report – Alison Hüneke

Queries

Is the “Look & Say” method of reading appropriate for bilingual children?

How do we ease Spanish back into family life?

Volume 9 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

Jessy’s Struggle to Become Bilingual – Birgit Szymanski

Twenty Years On – Joseph McConnon

Most Children Could be AT LEAST Bilingual: The Example of Luxembourg – Deirdre L. Cinquemani Condon

Language & Culture – Mandeep Sandhu

Queries

Will she ever speak French?

Volume 9 : issue 1 [download]

Main Articles

In Praise of Television – Ciarán O’Hagan

Queries

Speaking a non-native language to one’s child: Will it work?

Juggling two languages in the family

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