tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714607023586830416.post8577320828461750157..comments2024-03-26T16:34:28.335+01:00Comments on the piri-piri lexicon: Myths busted: raising multilingual children blogging carnivalThe Piri-Piri Lexiconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07211814852783699044noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714607023586830416.post-67375936963430232192014-12-04T01:17:31.773+01:002014-12-04T01:17:31.773+01:00Hello everyone! I'm late to the party, but lo...Hello everyone! I'm late to the party, but loved Annabelle's choice of topics, so I went ahead and finished the post I had started last month. My post discusses language delay and differing levels of fluency: http://babybilingual.blogspot.com/2014/12/myth-ing-point.html<br /><br />Annabelle, thanks for gathering such a positive, inspiring group of posts for us! Happy holidays.<br /><br />Sarah @ Baby Bilingualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13907207816628137938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714607023586830416.post-7248139727235006732014-11-28T12:40:51.286+01:002014-11-28T12:40:51.286+01:00I've known bilingual people who speak (and wri...I've known bilingual people who speak (and write!) both their languges perfectly and others who speak the language of the country they were born in perfectly, the second language slightly less well but cannot write in the second language to save their lives. There's no one rule that fits all. And I think it's a real shame my grandad never taught his children any Ukranian - or even Russian. He himself was brought up bilingual Ukranian/Russian (in those days, everyone had to learn Russian by law) and spoke 6 languages by the time he died. But he didn't speak his language to his children because he considered Ukranian a "useless" language and hoped they would never go to his country.bevchenhttp://confuzzledom.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714607023586830416.post-5424465133733856392014-11-25T06:29:07.310+01:002014-11-25T06:29:07.310+01:00I am very thankful for this post, which has turned...I am very thankful for this post, which has turned out to be an invaluable resource guide for parents raising their children multilingually as well as for those considering this path for their family. I love how we are all at different stages of the journey, strewn across the planet in different locations and exposing our children to different languages, yet fighting similar external myths (and let's be honest, internal / our own fears). As for individual myths, I had hoped someone would look into the "special needs kids cannot become bilingual" but I didn't have first-hand examples to back it up with. So happy to see it here. So encouraging along the ups and downs of our own journey. Thank you, Annabelle for the topic and this fantastic summary.ThirdCultureMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12013413920413710169noreply@blogger.com