Check out the multilingual blogging carnival, a monthly get-together for all interested in bilingualism and in raising bilingual children and an opportunity to share experiences, info and best practices. Organized by Bilingual for Fun, this month the...

Milo and the Belgianite were having this lenghty conversation in Dutch about a kite-surfer who lost his kite during a lesson; they kept going back and forth and, at some point, I lost track of it and could not understand anymore. Zeno was playing...

We spent a couple of days on the Cote d' Azur last week, to escape the first winter blues and to take a little deserved break. I purposely focused on our family exchanges and listened carefully to my kids, to what they were saying and how they were...

A qualitative study conducted this month in our household has proved that the regular consumption of dried prunes is beneficial to English learning. The study was conducted on a sample of two male specimen aged 3 and 5, regularly exposed to passive...

We lit some candles on Halloween night, and we were peacefully observing their flickering lights in the dark after dinner, when Milo whispered sweetly: "That's so cute!" Literally. In English! This has been happening more and more frequently: from...