‘You haven’t asked me what ‘Jurassic Journey’ is in Chinese. I still remember it!’ After our little trip to Birdland during the half term holidays in charming Cotsworld, the whole family left amazed at the array of aves that we saw and learnt. It was another one of those trips (opportunities!) that I seized to…
This isn’t the first time I’ve been asked this question and it won’t be the last. I receive emails such as these frequently. I decided to share my reply today as I hope by doing so, it can ease many parent’s worries. Life as a parent is full of worries but if you find yourself…
I’m very proud of raising a trilingual family, but it wasn’t easy. My son didn’t always speak three languages. Just the two really. My husband didn’t feel that his Mandarin ‘was good enough’ for our child and since we both communicated in English, the language that glued our relationship, it was so much easier to…