@Multi Tongue Kids
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Lives in Paris
Registration: 22 February 2006
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Multi Tongue Kids: euro kids in France! by Multi Tongue Kids
Ciao! I just joined the ½ûÂþÌìÌà gang! I am an Italian native who lived 10 years in the US and has returned to Europe happily ever after. Currently based in Paris, I am raising my child quadrilingual (Italian, Dutch, French and English). I write ...
Sorry for not replying, haven't been around for a while... Pia, it must have been great for your growing up surrounded by such a multilingual family, no wonder your own kids have also developed such large horizons. I'm intrigued by your comment on ... Read More
Multi Tongue Kids: euro kids in France! by Multi Tongue Kids
Ciao! I just joined the ½ûÂþÌìÌà gang! I am an Italian native who lived 10 years in the US and has returned to Europe happily ever after. Currently based in Paris, I am raising my child quadrilingual (Italian, Dutch, French and English). I write ...
Salut Olivier, I loved your reply: you have an amazing collection of cousins married with foreigners, your family alone can be the base of some great linguistics/multicultural doctorate research!!! I agree with your conclusion, there is no winning ... Read More
Multi Tongue Kids: euro kids in France! by Multi Tongue Kids
Ciao! I just joined the ½ûÂþÌìÌà gang! I am an Italian native who lived 10 years in the US and has returned to Europe happily ever after. Currently based in Paris, I am raising my child quadrilingual (Italian, Dutch, French and English). I write ...
Salut Laurent, my son is now 22 months. his first detectable word was pronounced at about 12 months and it was :"dutch"! We still have no idea whay and what he meant! for about one week he went on and on saying dutch dutch dutch dutch! Apart from ... Read More
Expatriate or Immigrant? by Julien
Hi, after reviewing wikipedia's definition of the word expatriate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriate I realized the difference between an expatriate and an immigrant. And there are "global nomads" too ... What do you think you are? I think I ...
...very interesting topic! I guess I'm both...I have been an immigrant in the US and I guess I am bot an expat and an immigrant in France. But I am not sure I will stay forever here. I am not sure that I will ever return to live steadily in my ... Read More
Multi Tongue Kids: euro kids in France! by Multi Tongue Kids
Ciao! I just joined the ½ûÂþÌìÌà gang! I am an Italian native who lived 10 years in the US and has returned to Europe happily ever after. Currently based in Paris, I am raising my child quadrilingual (Italian, Dutch, French and English). I write ...
Julien, I speak Italian to my son and his father speaks to him Dutch (he's Flemish). The environmanet is French, and luckily the nanny speaks French all day long to our son. The fourth language is passive: dad and mum speak...English to each ... Read More
Multi Tongue Kids: euro kids in France! by Multi Tongue Kids
Ciao! I just joined the ½ûÂþÌìÌà gang! I am an Italian native who lived 10 years in the US and has returned to Europe happily ever after. Currently based in Paris, I am raising my child quadrilingual (Italian, Dutch, French and English). I write ...
Hi Julien, I don't think he fulfills the definition yet, as he was born in Paris and so far we have not moved anywhere else yet! But he is surrounded daily by 4 languages, and now that he begins talking, it's real fun to see how he reacts and ... Read More
Multi Tongue Kids: euro kids in France!
Ciao! I just joined the ½ûÂþÌìÌà gang! I am an Italian native who lived 10 years in the US and has returned to Europe happily ever after. Currently based in Paris, I am raising my child quadrilingual (Italian, Dutch, French and English). I write ... Read More