Linguists by trade. Multilingual family by nature? | an interview with Sandhya Sundaresan
04/14/22 • 50 min
In today's episode my friend Dr. Sandhya Sundaresan tells us about her multilingual journey - starting in India where she grew up with Tamil and English over to her current life in Germany.
Sandhya is a colleague of mine, she has a PhD in Linguistics; and she is a new mom to a baby girl who is growing up multilingually. With her American husband and at work Sandhya speaks English, while the family lives in Berlin where the majority language is German. In her busy daily life Sandhya struggles sometimes to stick to her mother tongue - the baby's and her own basic needs are the priority, multilingualism comes second. This happens to many of my clients as well, it's the reality of most parents and that's ok! Raising a multilingual child is a roller coaster and it can be hard work at times, the important thing is to get back on track and to keep the eye on the goal - your multilingual and multicultural child, the future global citizen.
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Dr. Bettina Gruber
Musik: Ben Leven YouTube
In today's episode my friend Dr. Sandhya Sundaresan tells us about her multilingual journey - starting in India where she grew up with Tamil and English over to her current life in Germany.
Sandhya is a colleague of mine, she has a PhD in Linguistics; and she is a new mom to a baby girl who is growing up multilingually. With her American husband and at work Sandhya speaks English, while the family lives in Berlin where the majority language is German. In her busy daily life Sandhya struggles sometimes to stick to her mother tongue - the baby's and her own basic needs are the priority, multilingualism comes second. This happens to many of my clients as well, it's the reality of most parents and that's ok! Raising a multilingual child is a roller coaster and it can be hard work at times, the important thing is to get back on track and to keep the eye on the goal - your multilingual and multicultural child, the future global citizen.
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Dr. Bettina Gruber
Musik: Ben Leven YouTube
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4 Tipps wie du dein Kind auf die Sprache im Kindergarten vorbereiten kannst | die Linguistin
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Familien, deren Muttersprache eine andere ist als die Umgebungssprache, machen sich oft Gedanken, was denn passieren wird, wenn ihr Kind in die Kita oder den Kindergarten kommt und überhaupt nichts versteht.
Heute hoffe ich diesen Eltern ihre Sorge etwas nehmen zu können und mit 4 konkreten Tipps Hilfestellung zu leisten.
Wenn du meine Tipps hilfreich findest und meine Arbeit unterstützen möchtest, dann lass mir einen Kommentar und/oder eine Bewertung da.
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Dr. Bettina Gruber
Musik: Ben Leven YouTube
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There are many myths and misconceptions when it comes to our profession. Some of us who study the science of languages don't necessarily speak a foreign language and those who actually mastered to speak a foreign language almost like a native speaker, might have big difficulties learning another language.
Today I get to speak to another friend and colleague of mine: Dr. Thomas McFadden. In today ́s episode Thomas tells us about his journey, how he discovered his love for the German language and its dialects. But also how much he struggles to learn Tamil - his wife ́s first language.
Thomas is married to Dr. Sandhya Sundaresan who I interviewed last week. The couple is raising a multilingual daughter, who is growing up with English, Tamil and German, as the family is currently living in Germany. That is 3 languages for the time being. All though, actually, we could count English twice, as the differences between American and Indian English are greater than one might think. And Thomas will share some great anecdotes to prove my point.
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Dr. Bettina Gruber
Musik: Ben Leven YouTube
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