My 5 Commandments for Staying Consistent as the Minority Language Parent
“Are you a drop-dead-OPOL-mom?” an acquaintance inquired when I published my last update of Birdy’s language progress. I laughed out loud and then started…
Different Language, Different Personality?
I was a shy child who often preferred to stay home reading a book to going out on adventures with other kids. As…
Trilingual Baby’s First Words
Do you know what your first words were? According to the little book that was given to every parent upon the birth of…
Our Trilingual Family: the Building Blocks
In our little multicultural and trilingual family we use three languages on a daily basis – German, Latvian, and English. Here’s how we…
Language Learning by Playing
When Rita Rosenback from the blog Multilingual Parenting asked other bloggers to share their best tips for motivating children to speak the minority language for the…
The Perks of Speaking a Small Language
There are more than 7 billion people on this planet and they speak around 7000 different languages. But did you know that half…
Top 5 Posts of 2015
Once a year comes to an end it’s always fun to look back and see which posts have attracted the most attention. Scroll…
Of “right” and “wrong” languages
Over the past month Birdy has been adding new words to her vocabulary almost daily and her language is currently an adorable mix of Latvian,…
The Bilingual Toddler
This month I have the honor to host the Multicultural Kid Blogs monthly blogging carnival about a topic that is very topical in our household…
