After growing up across countries, I knew I wanted my kids to be multilingual — fluent in Dutch, German, and English from ...

Adriana Weisleder knows well the benefits of being bilingual: being able to communicate with one’s community, cultivating connection with one’s heritage culture, contributing to the richness and ...

Learning different languages can be wildly beneficial for children in terms of development and cultural exposure, but with so many languages to choose from, which is the best for your child? We found ...

A reader faults her husband’s relatives for not teaching their young children any English, which she worries may make for an awkward holiday visit.

About 5.7 million Australians speak a language other than English at home. Most multilingual children spend their school days ...

Post written by François Grosjean. "Susana keeps mixing her two languages; she's semilingual!" "Pierre doesn't know either language well; he combines them all the time!" I cringe, as do other language ...

Four-year-old Michael and his two-year-old brother Adrian were nestled cozily at the foot of their home stairway. Scattered about them were their beddings, some selected toys and stuffed animals, and ...

If you’re enrolling your child in California state-subsidized preschool this fall, you’ll be asked new questions about what languages they speak and understand. It’s part of a new effort to identify ...

For deaf people, language deprivation during early childhood represents the most significant threat to the exercise of their civil rights and liberties. Nearly all of our clients in these cases were ...

He was 13 years old, had run away from home and ended up in my counseling office. Among other things, he said: “My parents don’t love me. They love my brother, but they don’t love me.” I knew his ...