AEE 250: 3 Ways to Raise a Bilingual Child with Bilingual Avenue Host Marianna Du Bosq

How do you raise a bilingual child? Today, Lindsay chats with
Marianna Du Bosq, a bilingual educator who has three ways
to help you raise your child to speak more than one language!
  The benefits of raising a bilingual child are many. Not
only will knowing more than one language open career opportunities
for the child when they grow up, research is also finding
significant positive cognitive advantages to having
a bilingual brain.   Marianna believes bilingualism (and
even tri-lingualism) is definitely achievable if parents are
focused enough. Here are Marianna’s three main points to focus
on: Expose your children to quality language input. Read
books, or even use audio books. This way, your child is
hearing voices other than those of their parents. Create a need to
use the language. If the child doesn’t have to use the language to
get what they want, they’re naturally going to fall back on
using the dominant language. Ask your family members help
by only speaking one language or the other. Keep it fun! Children
will be far more involved in the language if they are doing the
kinds of things they already love to do.   Are you a parent
interested in raising bilingual children? Share your thoughts or
experiences in the comments section below!   Marianna Du
Bosq is a bilingual mother, former bilingual educator, and lifetime
language learner. She is the host of the Bilingual Avenue
podcast and blog where she interviews parents and experts raising
and teaching multilingual children, and provides an excellent
collection of tips and strategies for anyone choosing this journey.
She is originally from Venezuela, has spent the last twenty years
in the United States, and is currently on a one year adventure
in the Black Forest in Germany with her husband and two year old
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