Comments for Expat Since Birth – A Life spent "abroad" https://expatsincebirth.com a blog by a multilingual lifelong expat/international, linguist, researcher, speaker, mother of three, living in the Netherlands and writing about raising children with multiple languages, multiculturalism, parenting abroad, international life... Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.3 Comment on When we decide to be happy… by Happiness Around the World - Kids Yoga Stories | Yoga stories for kids https://expatsincebirth.com/2013/07/26/when-we-decide-to-be-happy/#comment-89017 Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:29:07 +0000 http://expatsincebirth.com/?p=1988#comment-89017 […] Ute points to the research of happiness and a few excellent TED talks on the science of happiness.  For her, it is living in the present moment, practicing mindfulness, that brings her joy.  Ute asked her children what makes them happy.  Her son enjoys reading and playing with friends, while her daughter loves an active lifestyle with family and friends.  She describes a happy moment together as a family laughing and playing in their backyard pool.  Lastly, she shares that happiness is a choice, something that we can make a daily habit. Ute Limacher-Riebold Expats Since Birth […]

]]> Comment on About OPOL by Homeschooling in the Philippines: how we (try to) raise a trilingual child - Calabazilla.com https://expatsincebirth.com/2012/09/16/about-opol/#comment-88435 Fri, 29 May 2020 20:23:33 +0000 http://expatsincebirth.com/?p=128#comment-88435 […] first language acquisition (MFLA) or simultaneous multilingualism. A popular MFLA approach is One Person One Language (OPOL), where one person exclusively speaks one language to the child, another speaks only the second, […]

]]> Comment on How many languages can a child learn? by Maica https://expatsincebirth.com/2013/08/19/how-many-languages-can-a-child-learn/#comment-87682 Tue, 26 May 2020 15:12:08 +0000 http://expatsincebirth.com/?p=2007#comment-87682 At home, we usually watch the movies in the original version, especially the cartoon movies that my daughter watches, which I try to make them in English. Also, now she also has private online classes recommended by a friend. The page is: https://erasmusu.com/es/clases-particulares/ingles/online
I still can’t say if they are effective because it only takes a month, but she seems to be happy.

]]> Comment on How many languages can a child learn? by margatr https://expatsincebirth.com/2013/08/19/how-many-languages-can-a-child-learn/#comment-87677 Tue, 26 May 2020 14:55:16 +0000 http://expatsincebirth.com/?p=2007#comment-87677 In reply to expatsincebirth.

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]]> Comment on My home are my languages by Where Do You Come From? - https://expatsincebirth.com/2012/08/16/my-home-are-my-languages/#comment-84659 Thu, 14 May 2020 15:01:44 +0000 http://expatsincebirth.com/?p=24#comment-84659 […] Expat Since Birth finds it impossible to say where, geographically, she is from.  Instead, she finds it much easier to think about the languages she speaks and she wrote in her very first post called ‘My Home Are My Languages.’ […]

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