The playground near our house is filled with foreign languages, like French, Greek, Arabic, Spanish dan Turkish. It's fascinating to see how those kids speak German among themselves and then switch to their native tongues when speaking to their parents. Joseph is also more relaxed playing over here compare to the playground located in the area we ( Read more... )

If you bought a ready-made food and find the cooking instructions to be in German (language you hardly know) and five other EU languages you're not even sure to which country they belong, what would you do?

Answer: Hit the dictionary!

How does it feel to be a parent in a bilingual French-German school, where your French is less fluent than your 4- ( Read more... )

Modified OPOL
When still in Chicago, a friend asked what we're going to do with Joseph's English. I said we're going to stick to our One-Parent-One-Language system (OPOL) we've been using since forever, and let English find its own way to survive. However, once in Munich, Joseph speaks English to us more than ever. We didn't realize and kept ( Read more... )