Our Jurassic Journey

Bilingualism, Cantonese, English, Family, Mandarin, Personal, TrilingualismBy Pui-LaiJune 19, 2018

‘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…

From Bilingual to Trilingual

Bilingualism, Cantonese, English, Family, Mandarin, Personal, TrilingualismBy Pui-LaiFebruary 15, 2018

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…