Babelkid - Raising Multilingual Children

BK2, who will be nine in a couple of weeks, was asked to pick a country to research and present to her class. She chose Algeria. She told...

From time to time, it suddenly hits me. I don't belong anywhere. I left my country, where I grew up. Left my family behind, the fami...

I feel a bit bad: we haven't updated the family language diagram for ages! I cannot even remember how long ago I touched it. Bad Babeld...

Bath-time and mealtimes seem to be quite conducive to multilingual talk in our family. Yesterday, during bath-time, the girls were chat...

We're going to France tomorrow to visit friends. In the bath this evening, BK2 expressed her worries about being able to communicate...

If you are new to the UK, be prepared to be confused at mealtimes. Lunch, dinner, tea, supper, luncheon, which one is when ? Algeria and...

We never intended to stay in Britain. We never intended for our girls to be born in England, and become English. We left southern France ...

Jean Dujardin has won the Oscar for best actor, the first ever French actor to win the prestigious award. I remember when I first saw him...