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Expat Since Birth – A Life spent "abroad"

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…

Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #5 Adjust your pace!…

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on April 23, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #4 Celebrating Easter in 2020

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on April 11, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #3 To plan or not to plan, that’s the question

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on April 9, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #2 Breakfast and dinner conversations

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on April 8, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #1 Remote learning

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on April 7, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

When using words in another language (sensible and sensitive)

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on February 12, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

What to do when cultural and linguistic stereotyping is fostered by media

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on April 6, 2018 • ( 6 Comments )

Children love cartoons, movies, games and we all know that the vilains, the “bad guys” are not only characterized by features that make them unpleasant, but also by foreign accents. Sociolinguist Calvin Gidney started to study language patterns in animated kid’s entertainment after noticing that Mufasa had an American […]

Why international days and celebrations are difficult for true internationals

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on March 25, 2018 • ( 10 Comments )

I know that writing this will upset some of my friends, but I want to share this because it came up many many times in the last weeks. At the latest FIGT (Families In Global Transition) conference we talked about identity and sense of belonging and as we […]

Years spent “in between” are over

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on March 24, 2018 • ( 9 Comments )

I know this sounds ungrateful or even sad, but since our move 4 weeks ago (time flies!) I realized that what I somehow felt for a long time: I had spent 12 years “in between”. Here is what I mean with “in between”. It’s when you live in […]

What the British say… and what they mean…

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on March 4, 2018 • ( 25 Comments )

If like me you have learned English at school, you probably haven’t learned the different meanings of expressions and way of sayings that Brits use on a regular basis. I have been working with native English speakers for more than 13 years now and still notice that although […]

Silent Night, or Ciùin an oidhch’, naomh an oidhch’ – by Rachel Hay

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on December 24, 2017 • ( 3 Comments )

Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht is a carol by the Austrian priest  Joseph Moor in 1816 and it is believed that Franz Xaver Gruber produced the German melody in only a few hours (in 1818), written as a guitar accompaniment. It has been translated into 55 other languages (cf. Wikipedia) When I published […]

Best US Campgrounds for Fall Colors of 2017 – Catching the Nature’s Art

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on November 10, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

by Melanie Campbell Have you thought about going on a camping trip with your family? Well, the fall is the best season to do it! The color variations and sceneries in the wilderness create most beautiful pictures nature can compose. The openness of the wild and the colors […]

Tips to encourage your kid to clean their room

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on November 3, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

Every child once in a while is asking themselves, why they are kept getting told to clean and tidy up their room, and they wonder what does that mean.

Day of the Dead in Italy

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on October 30, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

Celebrating the dead is not only customary in Mexico, but also in other Catholic societies. In different areas of Italy the dead are celebrated in different ways.

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  • Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #5 Adjust your pace!…
    Easter is over, some children are back to remote learning and some schools have adapted the amount of time students are required to learn online (or offline). They adjusted the pace of holding lessons online and if you ask me, it was so necessary to do so! Following […]
  • Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #4 Celebrating Easter in 2020
    It sounds almost a sacrilege to mention COVID19 and celebrating in the same sentence or title, especially considering those who are struggling right now. We all have different ways to cope in the many phases we go through not only now, but in any situation. At the moment, […]
  • Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #3 To plan or not to plan, that’s the question
    At the moment our teenagers have term break. We have spent many holidays at home in the past, but during COVID19 the social distancing and extra precautions when going out for walks etc. feel way more limiting for my teenagers (and me!). Also, they just got into the […]

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