Raising Bilingual Children in the Netherlands: What Summer Travel Really Does for Heritage Language Development
Your child speaks the school language all year without thinking. Your language — the one you grew up in, the one your parents use, the one you hoped would just stick — has to fight for space. And then summer comes. You get on a plane. And suddenly the whole dynamic shifts.
In this episode, Eva talks to multilingualism specialist Mimi about what really happens to language development when families travel home — and why most parents underestimate how significant that window actually is.
They talk about the child who understands everything but answers in the wrong language, why love of family…
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