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Library4Multilinguals

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www.library4multilinguals.com Author writing books for multilingual children

The Grand Multi-literacy Event is upon us 😃 Only 4 days to wait until the start of this event that will be ALL ABOUT MULTILINGUAL LITERACY!! Have you checked the programme yet? If not, download it at 🔗 bit.ly/multiliteracyevent 🔗 (link also in my bio) And don't forget to enter the 🎉GIVEAWAYS🎉 To do so, click on any RED GIFT ICON in the programme. (Explanation on p1 of programme) 🙏Thank you again to all the speakers and contributors coming together to make this event possible 🙏 My 🙌 Sponsors 🙌 🌟 Ute's International Lounge & Academy 🌟 🌟 Fluent Books Publishing 🌟 For 🧠 the RESEARCH 🧠 Dr Ellen Bialystok, Dr Jim Cummins, Mr Jacob Huckle, Dr Nayr Ibrahim, Pr Catherine McBride For 💡The Practical Tips 💡 Anna Cardelli Lynch & Vivien Lungo from Luca's Library, and me (Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori) For 💬 Language specific insights 💬 April Wu (Chinese), Chryssa Oikonomidou (Greek), Weronika Ozpolat (English), Cynthia Kasparian & Lina Kholaki (Arabic), Kaori Horike (Japanese) For 📚 Resources 📚 Elisavet Arkolaki, Adam Beck, Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, Maritere Rodríguez Bellas, Valérie Besanceney, Madly Chatterjee, Inna Figotina, Marie Robert, Alex MacDonald, Irene Kang, Natalia Simons, Michael Wong, Michelle Glorieux #biliteracy #multilingualparenting #multilingualkids #eal #internationalschools #homeschooling created by Library4Multilinguals with Library4Multilinguals's original sound
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The Grand Multi-literacy Event is upon us 😃

Only 4 days to wait until the start of this event that will be ALL ABOUT MULTILINGUAL LITERACY!!

Have you checked the programme yet? If not, download it at
🔗 bit.ly/multiliteracyevent 🔗
(link also in my bio)

And don't forget to enter the 🎉GIVEAWAYS🎉
To do so, click on any RED GIFT ICON in the programme. (Explanation on p1 of programme)

🙏Thank you again to all the speakers and contributors coming together to make this event possible 🙏

My 🙌 Sponsors 🙌
🌟 Ute's International Lounge & Academy 🌟
🌟 Fluent Books Publishing 🌟

For 🧠 the RESEARCH 🧠
Dr Ellen Bialystok, Dr Jim Cummins, Mr Jacob Huckle, Dr Nayr Ibrahim, Pr Catherine McBride

For 💡The Practical Tips 💡
Anna Cardelli Lynch & Vivien Lungo from Luca's Library, and me (Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori)

For 💬 Language specific insights 💬
April Wu (Chinese), Chryssa Oikonomidou (Greek), Weronika Ozpolat (English), Cynthia Kasparian & Lina Kholaki (Arabic), Kaori Horike (Japanese)

For 📚 Resources 📚
Elisavet Arkolaki, Adam Beck, Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, Maritere Rodríguez Bellas, Valérie Besanceney, Madly Chatterjee, Inna Figotina, Marie Robert, Alex MacDonald, Irene Kang, Natalia Simons, Michael Wong, Michelle Glorieux

#biliteracy #multilingualparenting #multilingualkids #eal #internationalschools #homeschooling
The PROGRAMME and GIVEAWAY details for The Grand Multi-literacy Event are out! Have you checked the pdf brochure already?

❓️If you have, which sessions are you looking forward to attend live (or catch up on)?

🔗 If not, here the link:
bit.ly/multiliteracyevent

NOTE: ALL TIMES ARE INDICATED IN UK TIME.

📨 Make sure to share the news around, it's FREE and you'll have a chance to ask all your questions directly to EXPERTS 😃

REMINDER:
This is an event that will be all about MULTILINGUAL LITERACY.
⭐️ It's FREE ONLINE and LIVE
⭐️ from Friday 29th September to Sunday 1st October
⭐️ on my YouTube channel @Library4Multilinguals

With all the guest speakers (including researchers and practitioners) this event is ideal for #multilingualfamilies and #teachers working with #multilingualkids

#biliteracy #internationalschool #homelanguages #homeschooling
You are invited to THE GRAND MULTI-LITERACY EVENT

If you are planning to teach your child to read and write in your home language, or if your child is already on the multi-literacy journey, or if you teach MULTILINGUAL CHILDREN, this event is for you.

Please watch this video to learn more about what this event will offer.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
WHEN: Friday 29th September ~ Sunday 1st October
WHERE: YouTube channel: Library4Multilinguals

I look forward to seeing many of you during this FREE ONLINE LIVE event.

PLEASE SHARE THE NEWS AROUND.

For the programme and giveaways, go to: bit.ly/Multiliteracy

#biliteracy #multilingualresources #homelanguage #reading #writing
REMINDER #6 - Let's make sure we spend quality time with our children

This one is a reminder as much for me as much as it is for you. 😅

As parents, we are all busy. And when we want to raise multilingual children, it takes a lot of time. But this shouldn't be at the expense of SPENDING QUALITY time with our children.

This is why I wrote "The Parents' Guide to Raising Multi-literate Children" (Read the 1st chapter free: https://www.library4multilinguals.com/theparentsguide )

and why Ana Elisa Miranda and @UtesInternationalLounge wrote "The Toolbox for Multilingual Families".

[Both books available on Amazon]

We explain how we can all teach our children through play.
FULL VIDEO:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1tq-2DfvMJE&si=mmL4BrYzHsPpgmFV

#playbasedlearning #multilingualfamilies #multilingualkids #familybonds
THERE IS NO COMPETITION BETWEEN OUR CHILDREN'S LANGUAGES

Although we try to pass on our languages, it is important not to put our children's languages in some sort of competition.

The real power of multilingualism is when our children are empowered by ALL their languages, that they have access to more fun, more opportunities because they speak all their languages.

This is an extract of a video where we answer the question: "Why doesn't my child want to read in our language?"

Go to YouTube and find the full video on our channel "ACTIVITIES FOR MULTILINGUAL FAMILIES"

#multilingualfamily #biliteracy #multilingualkids
GIVING A PURPOSE TO LANGUAGES

Although I grew up with French and Japanese, I am only passing on the French language.
I pass on both cultures though. For Japanese, I always thought that I would focus on making sure they know that they are ALSO Japanese. And I left the language side down to them.

During our holidays in France, my sons met their 2.5 y.o Japanese cousin for the first time.

While playing and talking with him, they learnt a lot of new words 🥰

It's been a week since we are back in England, but from time to time, especially my youngest, keeps speaking Japanese. Very easy words and a bit of baby language.

This morning, we went to the park, and this is him doing some exercise and counting in JAPANESE 🥰

This really shows the importance of CONNECTION and MOTIVATION when it comes to speaking the language.

As I show in my graphic novel "In Search of the Lost Words", we need focus on CONNECTION to create a DESIRE in our children to speak the language.

#familybonds #multilingualkids #multiculturalkids #heritagelanguage
Reminder #4 - Let's focus on WHAT our children are telling us and not HOW they are talking.

Especially when we are the only source for our home language, we can feel like we MUST correct all the mistakes our children make.

But our corrections are not always well received by our children...

In our video called "How to 'correct' our children in a positive way - The Narrator's Game" @UtesInternationalLounge and I show you how and when we can effectively correct our children's mistake, and introduce you to the Narrator's Game as an example to do it.

👉 Full video YouTube- Activities for Multilingual Families / "How to correct our children in a positive way - The Narrator's Game"
LINK : https://youtube.com/watch?v=fyx5zyyUU3Q&si=metrKZBiN9i3A4X4
#mistakes #correction #homelanguage #multilingualkids
Reminder #3 : To motivate children to speak in our home language, let's talk about/do what interest them.

Extract from the video "SPEAKING - Some no-prep activities for multilingual families"
👉 on YouTube - Activities for Multilingual Families

#multilingualfamilies #familybonds #homelanguages
REMINDER #2 : Let's make our languages fun

When we live in a country, we can benefit from repeated exposure to learn accurately a language.

This doesn't happen as much in our home languages. As a result, our children can carry on making the same mistakes for a long time. And this is COMPLETELY NORMAL.

So to help them with accuracy, we need to make things memorable. Making it FUN through GAMES is a excellent way to achieve that.

I will let you explore our video titled "Charades and Gestures in Multilingual Families" to see get a concrete example of how you can achieve that.

📣 Watch it on YouTube on our channel "ACTIVITIES FOR MULTILINGUAL FAMILIES"

🔗 Link in bio.

#A4MF #homelanguage #multilingualkids #charades
@UtesInternationalLounge
1st September is in just 1 week. In many countries, this is the start of the new academic year.
Before all the hectic routine starts, we'll be sharing helpful reminders.

Today: HOW TO READ ALOUD WITH YOUR CHILDREN
[Extract from: READING ALOUD with MULTILINGUAL CHILDREN (of all ages)]

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On our YouTube channel "ACTIVITIES FOR MULTILINGUAL FAMILIES", Ana Elisa, Ute and I have been sharing ideas and tips to help you foster your languages in a fun and compelling way.

We have playlists for speaking, reading, and writing, and make sure we address the needs of children of all ages.

Feel free to explore our channel. And of course do not hesitate to let us know if you'd like us to cover some topics in particular.

Link to full video: https://youtu.be/1xaoMsXV1m8?feature=shared

#multilingualfamily #readingaloud #benefitsofreading
INCREDIBLE MOTIVATION TO SPEAK THEIR HOME LANGUAGE 🥰 My brother and his family live in Japan. We live in the UK. Living in opposite sides of the planet, covid, the cost of flights, and the difficulty to have holidays at the same time mean that my sons met their 3 y.o cousin from Japanese for the FIRST time. They are inseparable!! My sons speak French, Korean, and English. He speaks French and Japanese. For all of them, French isn't their strongest language, but it is the only language they have in common! So this is incredible motivation to speak French!! Languages enable strong family bonds to be created, and I am so glad they are enjoying each other's company so much!! ❓️Do your children also have something/one that motivates them to speak more their home language(s) this summer? #homelanguage #familybonds #cousins #multilingualfamily created by Library4Multilinguals with Draganov89's Epic Music(863502)
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2dub is a Korean app where you can replace what the different characters are saying by your/your children's voices.

This has been extremely helpful for our children's developmentof Korean:

1) there are a great variety of scenes so our sons learn new words in context. And because they have to say the words, they ask the meaning of new words far more often than when they just watch a cartoon.

2) they dub different characters so learn about different ways of talking, and how people address each other depending on the relationship between the characters, IN CONTEXT.

3) They can read the text, and this is an extra practice for reading in Korean.

And they get all this practice while having FUN 😁

❓️ Do you have such dubbing app in your home language?

#homelanguages #dubbing #multilingualkids
HOW CAN OUR CHILDREN BE EXPECTED TO SPEAK FORMALLY IF THEY HAVE NEVER LEARNT TO DO SO.

Depending on the culture our children will have more or less opportunities to speak formally.
So how can we introduce formal language so they can later on use the appropriate words and expressions when required.

Here is an extract of the video Ute and I published recently.

If the topic interests you, head over to our YouTube Channel "Activities for Multilingual Families"

FULL EPISODE: https://youtu.be/UeeRF6UXs9o

❓️In your home culture, are children expected to speak formally? In which context?
My son talking about onomatopoeia and explaining to Dr Sharon Unsworth @(the host of the podcast Kletsheads) how a cow sounds in different languages, and how to SPELL these onomatopoeia 🤣👍
#multilingualkid #onomatopoeia #theworldthroughkidseyes #multilingual
I've recently had the great pleasure to talk to Bec and Penny from the podcast "Language Chats".

We came back on why I started creating my content main about multi-literacy on Instagram,as multilingual_dad (that later on led to writing my books to help all Multilingual Children have an ENJOYABLE experience of learning to read and write in their home languages).

What I realise, when talking to people raising their children with more than one language is that we all do it because it is IMPORTANT. But it is important because of our own experience.

So let me know:
❓️What particular experience led you to decide to raise your children with more than one language / culture the way you do?
❓️What is driving you?
#multilingual #multicultural #biliteracy #multiliteracy
"Where are you from?"

is a question many TCKs (Third Culture Kids) find difficult to answer.
For me, it's quite easy: I come from Lyon, in France. That's where I was born, and where I grew up.
This, and the fact that one of my parents was from the country I grew up in always made me think that I wasn't a Third Culture Kid.

It turns out that I am 😅 and this is how I ended up on Mike Sullivan's podcast "Where are you from"

On his podcast, Mike is depicting the wide variety of portraits that make the TCK experience. Check it out!

❓️Are you a TCK? Or are you raising TCKs?

#tck #whereareyoufrom #multilingual #multicultural
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