014: Anna Vinogradova | Multicultural Kitchen As A Way To Learn Languages
05/28/14 • 27 min
Anna Vinogradova is the founder of Multicultural Kitchen ( A blog about food, cultures and languages – the connecting point between Anna and her husband as they love to cook and eat a lot). She is a Russian mom, her husband is Spanish and they raising their California-born daughter together. Anna is using One Parent, One Language (OPOL) system.
We talk about how she became a bilingual (learning English at a young age) and her family language portrait. What are her reasons for raising her daughter bilingual, why do they use food as a way to expose their daughter to the different cultures, the challenging thing about raising a bilingual kid and where does she get the support for minority language.
In this episode, here’s what we’ll cover:
00:30 Introduction to bilingual parents connect
2:10 Intro to Anna Vinogradova – founder of multicultural kitchen
2:47 Learning about Anna’s bilingual story
5:45 Family language portrait – what language does she speak to her husband
7:25 Anna’s personal reasons for raising her daughter bilingual
9:39 Passing the culture to her daughter through food
12:05 Exposing her daughter to Spanish culture and dancing
14:15 What other cultural features she plans to pass on her daughter
16:10 How strong is her minority language support and community
18:00 Most challenging thing about raising a trilingual child
21:00 Benefits of knowing how to speak several more languages
23:50 Anna’s advice on parents who are looking or already raising a bilingual child
26:17 Closing remarks
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Anna Vinogradova is the founder of Multicultural Kitchen ( A blog about food, cultures and languages – the connecting point between Anna and her husband as they love to cook and eat a lot). She is a Russian mom, her husband is Spanish and they raising their California-born daughter together. Anna is using One Parent, One Language (OPOL) system.
We talk about how she became a bilingual (learning English at a young age) and her family language portrait. What are her reasons for raising her daughter bilingual, why do they use food as a way to expose their daughter to the different cultures, the challenging thing about raising a bilingual kid and where does she get the support for minority language.
In this episode, here’s what we’ll cover:
00:30 Introduction to bilingual parents connect
2:10 Intro to Anna Vinogradova – founder of multicultural kitchen
2:47 Learning about Anna’s bilingual story
5:45 Family language portrait – what language does she speak to her husband
7:25 Anna’s personal reasons for raising her daughter bilingual
9:39 Passing the culture to her daughter through food
12:05 Exposing her daughter to Spanish culture and dancing
14:15 What other cultural features she plans to pass on her daughter
16:10 How strong is her minority language support and community
18:00 Most challenging thing about raising a trilingual child
21:00 Benefits of knowing how to speak several more languages
23:50 Anna’s advice on parents who are looking or already raising a bilingual child
26:17 Closing remarks
Items mentioned in this Episode:
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013: Becky Morales | Four Cultures Family | They Are Truly Global Citizens
Becky Morales is the creator of Kid World Citizen – offering activities that help young minds go global. She is an ESL teacher with a passion for multi-language education and traveling around the world. Becky and her husband, Antonio are the proud parents of four kids – two by adoption (Chinese and Ethiopian descent). Her work has been featured on Scholastic, The US Department of Education, MSN and many more. She loves connecting with like-minded educators, institutions and parents.
We talk about Becky’s family language portrait, how she manage the cultural differences in their multilingual household, how she speaks to her kids with a non-native language, what cuisine she serves in their multicultural home, does she celebrate all the holidays with her kids and learning language as an adult – is it too late to learn a second one or should it still be pursued at an older age?
In this episode, here’s what we’ll cover:
00:30 Introduction to bilingual parents connect
2:10 Introduction to Becky Morales, founder of Kid World Citizen
3:14 Becky’s family language portrait – what language do they speak to their children
5:45 Minority language at home
8:20 Learning Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English – How does Becky balance language learning between her kids
10:40 Celebrating holidays with her family
13:30 Visiting Ethiopia
13:52 Learn more about adoption policies and nationalities
19:01 Adoption programs in Ukraine
19:56 How Becky started her website – “Kid World Citizen”
23:25 Teaching Spanish to her kids – the challenges of speaking a non-native language to them
25:44 Speaking to babies in native language
27:35 Cultural food in Chinese, Ethiopian and Spanish
30:47 How does Becky’s kids associate themselves? American? Chinese? Ethiopian?
34:53 How to manage all the cultural differences in your multicultural household
40:30 Experience in immersion traveling and future travel plans
42:10 How does she plan to teach her kids literacy: writing and reading
47:23 Learning language as an adult
49:30 Becky’s advice on parents who are looking or already raising a multilingual child
51:12 Hosting an exchange student in your home – exchange dinners and cultures
55:49 Closing remarks
Items mentioned in this episode:
http://offbeatmarriage.com/american-mexican-intercultural-marriage-raising-a-multicultural-family/
http://kidworldcitizen.org/page/5/
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015: Jonathan Ervine | Father’s Perspective On Language Acquisition
Jonathan Ervine – is the creator of Dad’s the way I like it – a website on what it means to be a dad and how dads are represented in the society. He resides in North West Wales with his wife, son and pet chicken. He is also a lecturer of French at Bangor University. He can speak English, Welsh and French, though he is not a native Welsh speaker.
We talk about his family language portrait, how he became bilingual and speaking Welsh. We also talk about raising his son bilingual, what system of bilingual learning do they use and the challenges of speaking a non-native language to their son.
In this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock podcast:
00:30 Introduction to bilingual parents connect
2:13 Introduction to Jonathan Ervine – founder of Dad’s the way I like it
2:58 Discussing Welsh and Scottish language
3:57 Jonathan’s bilingual story and career
5:09 Reasons to raise his kids bilingual (particularly in Welsh)
6:34 Difference between the north and south Welsh language
7:40 Who speaks the Welsh and English to their kid? The system they use to raise their kid
8:58 Ways on learning a non-native language and speaking it to your child
12:00 Discussing the durability of speaking Welsh
16:19 Signs of understanding for both languages for Jonathan’s son
17:49 Challenge of speaking Welsh to his son
20:39 Minority Language: Welsh or English?
22:53 Literacy in Welsh language and schools
26:00 Exposing his son to speaking French
26:43 Living in France
28:52 Challenges of raising a bilingual child
30:17 Football or Soccer – and its relation to podcast
32:00 Running a podcast in Welsh
33:01 Advice for parents looking to raise a bilingual child
39:37 Closing remarks
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