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Being Multilingual: Children speak child-speak
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Links to this blog. Saturday, 23 March 2013. Me: Children speak child-speak, you know? Possibly you: Of course they do! Singsong), they’re *children*. The first time I realised that something must be very wrong with academic treatments of child multilingualism was back in the 1980s, when the literature about “translation equivalents”. If you’re shaking your head in benevolent disbelief at how this kind of nonsense could ever have made headlines, then don’t. Not just because nonsense about...Explaining th...
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Being Multilingual: Going global, full monolingualism ahead?
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Links to this blog. Saturday, 2 April 2011. Going global, full monolingualism ahead? I cannot predict the future, but I suppose I can safely guess that global monolingualism is not in the stars. I have two reasons for saying this. One is that, historically, monolingualism has hardly been a global trend. The other is that monolingualism can hardly become a global trend. Qualified locality among many others – all of them qualified as “ours” by those of us who share them. I mean the word business. And this ...
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Links and Resources – Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Schools offering German as a second language. German Language Round Table. Contact and Appointment Booking. Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Honorary German Consul is the official representative of the Federal Republic of Germany in Western Australia. Services provided by the German Honorary Consulate Perth. Schools offering German as second language. German Language Round Table. News & Events. Contact and Appointment Booking. Tips & Hints. For Australia wide information. A website...
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Being Multilingual: Little multi-dialectals
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Links to this blog. Wednesday, 30 May 2012. Find themselves the object of much (undue) attention, because they are said to use different languages. Little monolinguals, in contrast, may fail to get (due) attention to their use of what is said to be their single language, which is taken for granted. 8221; are loaded questions. Because they take for granted the kind of. Children may grow up surrounded by different uses of language in different ways. So-called multilingual settings may be replicated in ...
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Being Multilingual: Half-linguals and semilinguals
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Links to this blog. Wednesday, 23 November 2011. Speaking of semi-things assumes that it is possible (and possibly relevant) to speak about whole-things, so I think it is certainly relevant to check out what whole-things might mean, language-wise. Have as many full ones as the number of languages they say they use, and semilinguals have a mishmash of containers, all half-filled to different % %. Image: © Alti 2007 (Wikimedia Commons). Counts. First, by assuming that languages take up space, literally...
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Being Multilingual: Not being monolingual
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Links to this blog. Saturday, 16 October 2010. As far as I can tell, multilinguals are quite ordinary human beings: they’re many and they’re ancient. There are more multilinguals than monolinguals the world over, and the use of several languages by the same individuals has been documented as far back in time as historical sources allow us to peer into our linguistic habits. 8221;, or “Multilingual, you say? Oh In which language do you think. 8221; Questions of this kind all have one thing in common: they...
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Being Multilingual: Global individuals
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Links to this blog. Saturday, 15 January 2011. I thought of talking a bit about globalisation today, for two reasons. First, because it is fashionable to talk about globalisation. And second, because I have no idea why it should be fashionable to talk about it. Globalisation is currently hailed as an exciting, recent development. In her book The Mummies of Ürümchi. People couldn’t possibly be all speaking the “same” language, whatever “same language” might mean. Cartoon © Dinusha Uthpala Upasena. In Cruz...
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German Speaking Playgroups – Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Being Multilingual: Children, toys, and languages
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Links to this blog. Saturday, 15 October 2011. Children, toys, and languages. Small wonder that they treated our. Languages with the exact same lightheartedness. To the children, languages were yet other intriguing things to play around with, for the same purposes – to find out how they work. Neither the bulky desktop nor the languages had come to stay, as it turned out. Our (parental) problem, there too, was that we thought of our languages as, literally, our. Of tea towels and toy car parts. And that l...
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Being Multilingual: The languages that matter
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Links to this blog. Saturday, 23 August 2014. The languages that matter. Regular messages that I get from parents who have decided to bring up their children multilingually often have “Which languages should I use with my child? Mentions of Z invariably carry a Z-must undertone, even (especially? Which gets me wondering: why don’t the subject lines ask about “Which languages should I not. Use with my child? 8221; instead, since the questions are about discarding. Is becoming old hat. Second, these questi...
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