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Ep218. ft. Yulia Akhmetova - The Hidden Crisis of Multilingual Families: Why Children Lose Their Home Language (Part 2)
Raising a multilingual child is not magic. It is strategy.
In Part 2, Yulia Akhmetova returns to the Languages Pedagogy Podcast to move from awareness to action. This episode focuses on how parents can actively protect the home language, build a family language plan, and create routines that give children real exposure beyond basic commands.
We discuss why “children are like sponges” is dangerously incomplete, how families can build language-rich homes, why schools sometimes discourage home languages, and how monolingual bias still shapes classrooms around the world.
Yulia also shares…
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