bilingual parenting

Explore " bilingual parenting" with insightful episodes like "Embracing Ethnicity: Rediscovering & Celebrating Your Bilingual Heritage with Janny Perez", "Episode 41: The Value of Not Finishing", "Episode 21: Our Summer Language Activities", "Episode 14: Navigating Language Learning Abroad - Interview with Sarah Knight" and "Episode 12: Multilingual Parenting as a Non-Native: Learning Languages Alongside Your Kids - Interview with Nina Peacock" from podcasts like ""That's Good Parenting", "Love, Joy, and Languages", "Love, Joy, and Languages", "Love, Joy, and Languages" and "Love, Joy, and Languages"" and more!

Episodes (12)

Embracing Ethnicity: Rediscovering & Celebrating Your Bilingual Heritage with Janny Perez

Listen to today's episode, "Embracing Ethnicity: Rediscovering & Celebrating Your Bilingual Heritage with Janny Perez" as Bilingual Parenting Educator/Entrepreneur and Author, Janny Perez joins Dori Durbin. Janny shares:

The Latina Mom Legacy Podcast
Who Janny Serves
Common Problems Reclaiming Ethnicity
Why Reclaim Your Past
Reading: "Nobody Told Me This About Raising a Bilingual Child"
Making Language Learning Fun
What Janny Wishes Kids Knew Earlier in Life?
Where to Find Janny and Her Book

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More about Janny:
Janny Perez is the founder of Mi Legasi, an online platform that helps Latina moms and multicultural families raise bilingual children who are connected to their roots through courses, blogs, and products. She is the author of "Nobody Told Me This About Raising a Bilingual Child," a guidebook that draws on her own experience and research to offer practical advice to parents who want to raise bilingual kids. She is also the host of The Latina Mom Legacy podcast, a podcast for parents that want to leave a Spanish language and Hispanic heritage legacy for their kids. She is a passionate advocate for bilingualism and multiculturalism, and her mission is to promote family, the Latino community, and bilingualism or multilingualism. Janny partners with parents, teachers, and brands that share her vision, and her online platform has helped countless families navigate the challenges of raising bilingual children. She is a proud mother to an 8-year-old multilingual daughter and is supported by her rockstar husband.

Find Janny's Book:
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Follow Janny:
https://www.milegasi.com
https://www.instagram.com/milegasi
Email: contact@milegasi.com

More about Dori Durbin:
Dori Durbin is a Christian wife, mom, author, illustrator, and a kids’ book coach who after experiencing a life-changing illness, quickly switched gears to follow her dream. She creates kids’ books to provide a fun and safe passageway for kids and parents to dig deeper and experience empowered lives. Dori also coaches non-fiction authors and aspiring authors to “kid-size” their content into informational and engaging kids’ books!

Buy Dori's Kids' Books:
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That's Good Parenting

en-usJuly 18, 2023

Episode 41: The Value of Not Finishing

Welcome back to Season 3! In this episode, I talk about how we view and use resources with respect to finishing them. In Episode 1 (http://www.lovejoyandlanguagespodcast.com/episode-1), I talked about history of having a strong internal desire to finish every resource I use or language project I begin. I’m a bit of an extreme case, I think, because it’s been more than just wanting to finish what I started or valuing the content of the resources I find and finishing for the sake of learning the things they teach. From the beginning of my language journey, I felt behind and like I needed to catch up, and finishing a resource seemed to be the ultimate marker of progress. Yet, focusing on finishing made every resource feel like a chore. It sucked the fun out of the process, and I found myself avoiding things rather than working on them. This misguided objective of finishing things stayed with me for years, and every time I started something new and didn’t finish it within some arbitrary amount of time, I felt like a failure. Not finishing was clearly an indicator of my inability to learn a language, despite the fact that I was actually learning the language. Ceasing to use a resource, whether I liked that resource or not, validated my core belief that I wasn’t the kind of person who could learn a language, that I was too old, not motivated enough, not dedicated enough or hard-working enough. Today I dig deep into this history and the mindset I worked under for several years and how it led to burnout, stress, frustration, guilt, shame, and very slow progress with little joy. I share the process I went through to bring myself out of this finishing mentality (beginning with sobriety, which I talk about here in Episode 37 (http://www.lovejoyandlanguagespodcast.com/episode-37)) and what my language learning focus looks like today. There have also been some very unexpected benefits to changing up how I view and use resources, helping me tackle other language learning problems I've had as a perfectionist, such as hoarding resources and not using them to their full potential. I hope you get something out of my story and insights today, and I'm so happy to have you here. Thank you for coming back to Season 3! Where to find me: Love, Joy, and Languages Blog (https://lovejoyandlanguages.com/) All podcast episodes can be found here (http://www.lovejoyandlanguagespodcast.com/). Instagram: @love.joyandlanguages Twitter: @LoveJoy_Lang

Love, Joy, and Languages

en-usJune 12, 2023

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Episode 21: Our Summer Language Activities

Welcome back to Season 2! In this episode, I review my summer break with the kids at home and talk about how we interacted with the languages we're learning, Italian and German. If you haven't already listened to Episode 19, give it a listen here (http://www.lovejoyandlanguagespodcast.com/episode-19) because that's where I set my priorities for the summer. Those priorities were critical for going back and reviewing everything we did (and didn't do). I hope this episode gives you some ideas for how to interact with your languages, whether you have kids or not. But most of all, I want to emphasize the importance of reviewing your language progress, tasks, and study time with respect to your goals and priorities. I want to exhibit the power of letting go of all-or-nothing thinking and unrealistic expectations, giving yourself grace to be flexible in what transpires along your journey, and keeping long-term language dreams without sacrificing short-term wins and language advancement. I'm so excited to be back with you this season!

Love, Joy, and Languages

en-usSeptember 19, 2022

Episode 14: Navigating Language Learning Abroad - Interview with Sarah Knight

In this episode, I sit down with guest Sarah Knight from Language Immersion Abroad, who shares her experience navigating life as an immersion program student in France. Sarah shares her discovery of immersion as a way to learn a language and how being part of a host family in the U.S. inspired her to take the immersion leap for herself. She brings us through the emotional and linguistic process of living in an intense immersive environment, including unexpected challenges and how she worked through them without losing herself. Even though our immersive experiences are different, Sarah skillfully describes thoughts and feelings about living abroad that I have never been able to put into words, showing that we're never alone in our experiences and that tapping into our subset of the language community to share stories and experiences is valuable, inspiring, and healing. While her experience was in an immersion program in the country, Sarah explains the concept of an immersion spectrum, allowing me to identify my experience along the spectrum. We compare and contrast various aspects of our diverse experiences learning a language while living abroad, talk about the role of family in our language choices, and what we envision for the language community. Sarah is on a mission to use her experience as an immersion student to build support and community for others going through or thinking about immersion. She values connection within the language community and wants to share all the facets of language immersion, both the exciting aspects and the challenges, in order to support and build strength amongst those living abroad. WHERE TO FIND SARAH: You can follow more of Sarah’s journey on Instagram @languageimmersionabroad, where she shares insights, tips, and stories about living immersed.

Love, Joy, and Languages

en-usJune 06, 2022

Episode 12: Multilingual Parenting as a Non-Native: Learning Languages Alongside Your Kids - Interview with Nina Peacock

In this episode, I sit down with Nina Peacock, a U.S. American expat experiencing acquisition of the community language alongside her children in Japan and now in Germany. She talks about learning Japanese while her children attended Japanese preschool, and then working to keep learning it together when they moved back to the U.S. Nina describes some of the challenges she faced teaching her children a language that isn’t her native one while also no longer being immersed in the country. She shares her discovery of TalkBox.Mom, a language learning program that guides families to speaking a second (or third or fourth...) language together at home from day 1, no matter where you live. Nina and her family found so much success using this program for Japanese while living in the U.S. that they brought it along for their transition to Germany, using it in both languages now. We talk about the struggles we’ve experienced trying to share our love of languages with our kids, what “fluency” can mean for multilingual children, setting goals for ourselves and our kids, and also the benefits of using one language to teach another. Nina’s journey as both a language learner and parent of expat children is full of discovery, growth, challenges, and celebrations. I’m so grateful to have the pleasure of hosting this chat, and we both hope to give other parents tips, hope, and inspiration for their own multilingual parenting journeys. WHERE TO FIND NINA & TALKBOX.MOM: You can follow more of Nina’s journey on Instagram @ninakpeacock, where she shares her family’s language life, especially with TalkBox.Mom. As a brand ambassador and avid user, she is a wealth of knowledge for any parents interested in the program, and you’ll also find coupon codes and other opportunities for trying this program on her page. You can also visit this link (https://talkbox.mom/ref/150/) for more information and a free starter pack.

Love, Joy, and Languages

en-usMay 23, 2022

Episode 2: My Story, Part 2, The Parent

In this episode, I talk about my history as the parent of my little language learners who have learned the community languages where we've lived. Parenting is hard, and adding a new immersion experience in the mix can get really muddy. I made so, so many mistakes trying to support my kids on their journeys -- from forcing my own expectations onto my kids to letting guilt and shame determine my reactions. Many of the things we've struggled with are common things non-native families go through, and I want to share our story in order to connect with others like us and also show that no one is alone. We build this supportive parenting community together, and transparency is the first step to true connections and building each other up. Get to know me as a parent of little language learners this second episode of Love, Joy, and Languages.

Love, Joy, and Languages

en-usMarch 07, 2022

Clean Up in Chinese with Miss Panda

Welcome to another episode of Playful Chinese with Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, “Miss Panda.” My work is to make learning Mandarin Chinese fun, playful and simple so you and your children can actively use it every day.

Have fun!

This episode is brought to you by First Mandarin Sounds an Awesome Chinese Word Book.

Traditional Chinese version | Simplified Chinese version

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Playful Chinese

enDecember 20, 2021

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What does a dog say in Chinese with Miss Panda

Welcome to another episode of Playful Chinese with Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, “Miss Panda.” My work is to guide non-native and heritage families to learn Mandarin Chinese in a fun, playful, and simple way so you and your children can actively use it every day.

Happy learning!

This episode is brought to you by First Mandarin Sounds an Awesome Chinese Word Book.

Traditional Chinese version | Simplified Chinese version

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Playful Chinese

enDecember 16, 2021

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Take a Walk in Chinese with Miss Panda

Have fun!

This episode is brought to you by First Mandarin Sounds an Awesome Chinese Word Book.

Traditional Chinese version | Simplified Chinese version

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Narration Music by ZakharValaha

enDecember 13, 2021

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It's Raining in Chinese with Miss Panda

Have fun!

This episode is brought to you by First Mandarin Sounds an Awesome Chinese Word Book.

Traditional Chinese version | Simplified Chinese version

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enDecember 12, 2021

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Interview: The Parents's Guide to Raising Multi-literate Children with Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori | Interview

Guest: Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori

Book: The Parents’ Guide to Raising Multi-literate Children

Website: Library4Multilinguals

HOST of the PLAYFUL CHINESE Podcast

is Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett and many parents and children know her as "Miss Panda."

You can visit Miss Panda and explore her resources at Miss Panda Chinese. Her NEW book is First Mandarin Sounds: an awesome Chinese word book that helps parents to guide kids to acquire first Chinese words and essential Mandarin sounds in a playful and literacy-building approach.

The theme music for the podcast is composed and performed by Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett "Miss Panda." The title of the song is “Hello Nǐ Hǎo” and it is the title song in the “Let’s Learn Mandarin Chinese with Miss Panda!” MP3 and streaming album and you can listen to the album on Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, GooglePlay, and all major streaming platforms.

Music credit: (interview)

"Somewhere Sunny" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Playful Chinese

enJuly 31, 2021

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#04 Shannon Kennedy on Musicianship, Shyness and Scripting in Language Learning

In this episode of The Language Hacking Podcast, Benny Lewis interviews his co-host, Shannon Kennedy about how she made the transition from music to languages, raising multilingual children, and what it’s like speaking another language when you identify as a shy introvert.

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Mentioned in this Episode

Episode Overview

How Shannon went from music to languages and how she connects them
What skills in learning music she has been able to transfer over to language learning
Language journalling
How foreign languages help you become a better musician
How to get comfortable speaking languages as a shy introvert
Scripting
How to use language islands to steer conversations into topics you’re comfortable with
How to pick up language learning after a break
Time management and energy management strategies
Tips for raising multilingual kids

Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy

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en-usJune 29, 2020

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