American Culture: What is Black Friday ?
Today’s Black Friday in the US. If you would like to know more about this, please read Anne Egros’ article about this.
Ute Limacher-Riebold
Language Consultant, Intercultural Communication Trainer and Language Expert at Ute's International Lounge.
What to say to parents of a child with a disability
I just read a post by Tatu and thought that listing up a few things to say to a parent of a child with a disability would help a bit. A while ago I wrote a blog about what to say to parents with twins because I am […]
En Sinterklaas is er weer!
If you live in the Netherlands, today you will experience how a whole country – children and adults! – are gek (crazy) about Sinterklaas. Sinterklaas (also known as Sint Nicolaas or Sint Nikolaas, Saint Nicolas in French, Sankt Nikolaus in German) is the traditional Winter holiday figure celebrated […]
How to listen to our children and how to make them listen to us
I just read an interesting post from Tessa and a parenting course she was following about how to listen to our children. It’s not always possible to give full attention when our child (or our children!) talk to us. The advise Tessa has been given was to stop […]
This blog has been nominated for the Expats Blog Awards!
I’m really pleased to share with you that my blog, Expatsincebirth has been nominated for the Expats Blog Awards! This is a great honour to be included together with other blogs, like DrieCulturen, Europeanmama, Tales from Windmill Fields, Adventures in Integration as well as many more. If you […]
Bilingual siblings and their language preferences
(this post was updated in April 2020) We can find many studies about how to raise “a” or “one” bilingual child, but what happens when you have more than one child? And maybe twins? Will it be possible to keep the initial bilingual or multilingual situation within the […]
Our favorite French resources
Comptines et chansons pour enfants Comptines TV This is a great video of 19 comptines that you can sing (and re-learn) with your toddler. Hello World gives you access to more than 700 free French games and activities. Radio pour les enfants A great radio channel to get […]
5 tips for expats about how to encourage your child to learn the local language
If you are an expat and move very frequently, you can get tired to learn a new language every two or three years. This is more than understandable. You probably send your children to an international school because this makes the constant moving easier. However, if you want […]
