Archive for June, 2006
Monday, June 26th, 2006
My baby can sign!
This is one of those cheerful and proud moments in the life of often helpless parents, who try to make sense of the way their children (and in particular babys) behave. Often these little people that can’t express themselves and yet have so much that they want to tell you can only resort to crying [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in English, bilingualism, kids by franzie
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
Familycomp!
I’ve been meaning to write an update of our family language situation ever since the last post in which I said that Michael was speaking English with the children now.
I think, it was a good decision, because M is not picking up Michael’s mistakes when speaking German, and her English has really taken off since [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in English, bilingualism by franzie
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
Migration, Immigration and Integration
Following on from the topic of the previous post, I read this interesting interview with Rita Suessmuth on Deutsche Welle.
She says, for example:
Among the estimated 200 million migrants worldwide, the majority make up what is called “forced migration.” That means these people haven’t left their countries voluntarily, but because of extreme poverty, war or political [...]
