Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast: Raising Multilingual Children, Multicultural Living, Growing Up With Multiple Languages. - 007: Cordelia Newlin De Rojas | Founder Of Multilingual Mama Shares Her Tips On Bilingual Parenting and homeschooling

007: Cordelia Newlin De Rojas | Founder Of Multilingual Mama Shares Her Tips On Bilingual Parenting and homeschooling

03/17/14 • 67 min

Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast: Raising Multilingual Children, Multicultural Living, Growing Up With Multiple Languages.

On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we talk with Cordelia Newlin De Rojas. She is the founder of the blog, Multilingual Mama. Cordelia is a Franco-American mother of two girls, Pacifique and Claude. Both of her daughters were born in different countries – Pacifique (New York) and Claude (Singapore). She lives in Thailand with her daughters and her husband, who’s a Mexican.

We discuss how she was raised in a bilingual family, what she learned from traveling from a Western country to Southeast Asia, how she’s raising her daughters bilingual and her decision on homeschooling.

In this episode, here’s what we’ll cover:

00:30 Introduction to Cordelia and her blog, Multilingual Mama
1:30 Cordelia’s Family Language Portrait
3:55 Growing up in a Bilingual Family – Pros and Cons
7:00 What you can learn from traveling
7:56 Refusing to speak French when Cordelia was a kid
9:00 Learning how to speak French and studying in a French school
12:00 Learning Spanish and the challenges Cordelia encountered
15:11 Family Language Portrait and Language System she uses to teach her kids
22:40 Homeschooling: Reasons behind the decision
33:20 Challenges and Drawbacks of Homeschooling
34:20 Cordelia’s thoughts on homeschool language learning
37:00 Cordelia’s tips on raising Bilingual Kids
39:16 Discussing when a spouse is not fluent in the minority language
49:10 Cordelia’s advice for parents on kids precious first words – delayed language speaking
55:00 Second Sibling Syndrome
57:00 Majority Language Public Talking

Items Mentioned in this Episode:

Homeschooling on a Budget

Speech Development: Keep Calm, Your Toddler will Talk

Puppets as Linguistic Catalysts

Raising Multilingual Children

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In this episode, here’s what we’ll cover:

00:30 Introduction to Cordelia and her blog, Multilingual Mama
1:30 Cordelia’s Family Language Portrait
3:55 Growing up in a Bilingual Family – Pros and Cons
7:00 What you can learn from traveling
7:56 Refusing to speak French when Cordelia was a kid
9:00 Learning how to speak French and studying in a French school
12:00 Learning Spanish and the challenges Cordelia encountered
15:11 Family Language Portrait and Language System she uses to teach her kids
22:40 Homeschooling: Reasons behind the decision
33:20 Challenges and Drawbacks of Homeschooling
34:20 Cordelia’s thoughts on homeschool language learning
37:00 Cordelia’s tips on raising Bilingual Kids
39:16 Discussing when a spouse is not fluent in the minority language
49:10 Cordelia’s advice for parents on kids precious first words – delayed language speaking
55:00 Second Sibling Syndrome
57:00 Majority Language Public Talking

Items Mentioned in this Episode:

Homeschooling on a Budget

Speech Development: Keep Calm, Your Toddler will Talk

Puppets as Linguistic Catalysts

Raising Multilingual Children

Previous Episode

006: Annabelle Humanes: One Family – Four Languages. How?

On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we talk with Annabelle Humanes, founder of the blog – Piri-Piri Lexicon. She’s a French language researcher married to a Portuguese and they reside in Germany with their daughter, LJ. They speak 4 languages at a daily basis and their aim is to raise their daughter to be a young global citizen.

Why Piri-Piri Lexicon? According to Annabelle, it sums up her family quite well. The lexicon part is because she spent 4 years of her student life researching bilingual children’s vocabulary development for a PhD and carried on further research on the topic of word acquisition. Piri-piri is a chilli brought to Africa by the Portuguese (aka a multicultural chilli!). It is used in a delicious and simple Portuguese dish (piri-piri chicken – a family favorite) and represents her family’s love for (spicy) food and P’s love for cooking.

In this episode, here’s what we’ll cover:

2:35 Annabelle’s Family Language Portrait and what language her family speaks
4:30 Annabelle talks about her daughter’s language learning and going to a Bilingual school.
6:30 Discussing the article “How much a child should be exposed to a minority language?”
10:10 Clues to see if a child gets enough exposure to another language
12:26 Developing Bilingual Lexicon
15:06 Language learning for the children
16:00 Language Delay for Bilingualism
17:15 Difference between Bilingual and Monolingual kids
20:30 Speech Theraphy and Specialists – Dealing with Difficulty in Language Learning
22:10 Annabelle’s Books on Amazon: Bilingual Lexicon and Research
23:00 Dealing with the difficulty of learning Portuguese for her daughter while her husband is traveling

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008: Lina Dickson About Beauty of Chinese and Bilingual Living

On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we talk with Lina Dickson. She’s the founder of Best4Future blog, a blog created to record Lina’s efforts to teach Chinese to her daughters and a journey to look for fun and effective ways to bring up children bilingual. Lina Dickson graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Journalism and a Master in Commnication. She is a former reporter, editor and assistant director in a previous life and now, a mom to her three precious daughters.

We talk about Lina’s Bilingual Story and Family Language Portrait and what made her decide to raise her daughters Bilingual. The reason why she started Chinese lessons on her blog and the challenges of raising a Bilingual kid.

Why Best4Future Blog? It was created by Lina Dickson, a mother who grew up frustrated in learning a second language in a non-native environment. It also includes lessons on the simplest Chinese words for daily usage, cultural backgrounds and stories.

In this episode, here’s what we’ll cover

00:36 Introduction to Lina Dickson and Best4Future Blog
1:55 Discussing Best4Future Blog
2:20 Lina Dickson’s Bilingual Story
3:40 Dealing with Frustration on Learning a Language in a none native environment
6:49 Moving to the US and how Lina was able to speak English
8:55 Raising her daughter Bilingual
9:50 Lina’s Family Language Portrait
11:30 Switching from one language to another
12:30 Acquiring a language in the early age
13:20 Introducing a language to her daughter even when her daughter wasn’t born yet
14:40 Reasons why she started Chinese lessons on her website
18:20 Importance of learning Chinese
20:00 Discussing Heritage Language
21:00 Language Learning Environment for Lina’s daughters
26:18 Bilingual Class and her DD’s learning ability
28:00 Language Literacy and Writing
30:00 Language Learning and Family Development
32:00 Challenges of Raising Multilingual Children