Bilingual and Trilingual Parenting 101: A Practical Handbook for Multilingual Families: Activate your child’s language potential and help them become actively bilingual or trilingual

by Ka Yee Meck

***Brand new SECOND EDITION for autumn 2023! Now includes a NEW CHAPTER on reading and writing, and a FREE DOWNLOADABLE CHEAT SHEET***Want to raise your child to be fluent in more than one language, but not sure where to start?Feeling frustrated that your child can understand what you say, but always replies to you in English?Trying to raise your child to speak an additional language but are not a native speaker yourself?Look no further.Bilingual and Trilingual Parenting 101: A Practical Handbook for Multilingual Families will help you tackle these problems and more.Packed full of practical, no-nonsense tips and advice, this compact book will take you through the process of devising a unique language plan for your family, and explain to you, step-by-step, a tried-and-tested method for helping your child achieve fluency in your chosen language.As a mother-of-two who is actively raising her children to be fluent in English, Russian and Chinese, the author will share with you all her personal experience and lessons she’s learnt while trying to raise trilingual kids. This is truly a book written by a parent, for parents!If you’re looking for a highly readable, accessible book with all the information you need, and realistic, simple suggestions you can put into practice right now, today – this is the book for you.In a nutshell, here’s what you’ll get from this Learn about the “Big Three” language strategies and how to implement them in practice- A step-by-step guide on how to create a customised language plan for your family- Learn about the benefits of being fluent in more than one language- Detailed explanation of a tried-and-tested method to help your child become an active speaker of your target language- Practical tips and advice covering a wide range of topics, weekend language schools, reading and writing, raising bilingual children as non-native speakers, and more.- Fun and easy activity ideas- Helpful list of resource

Genres: Parenting

199 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 10, 2021

About the author

Ka Yee Meck is a freelance translator, language instructor and writer. She has an upper-second class BA Hons. Degree in History of Art from the University of Cambridge, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from SOAS (The School of Oriental and African Studies) in London. She currently lives in Watford, Hertfordshire with her husband, two children and their cat.

She is passionate about languages and has written a book to help other families reach their language goals.

Website: www.multilingualfamilyhub.com
Email: kayeejuliemeck@gmail.com

Reviews

[Bjorn Hendriks · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some applicable concepts but almost everything is very straightforward and broadly known.

[Lavinia Stela Andrei · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick and informative read, with lots of tips and extra resources if you want to delve deeper. Highly recommend.

[Irene Calera · Rating 5 out of 5]

I listened to the audiobook. Full of useful ideas. Reassuring on the way we are raising our child mainly bilingual but introducing two more languages to make learning easier later on.