Ep. 48: Raising Multilingual Kids While Learning the Languages Yourself - Interview with Heidi

Episode 48 - Today's guest is Heidi, an American expat raising her two young children first in Italy and now in Germany.  She tells us about her experience learning languages later in life and recounts some of the struggles of raising multilingual kids when you're still learning the language yourself.  She shares how she dealt with expectations related to her kids' and her own language learning and how her relationship to language learning has transformed over the years.  Despite being a busy mom, she tracks her language learning progress and shares with us how she decides what counts as studying. Heidi recently launched her own podcast called Love, Joy, & Languages so go check out the amazing content she is publishing there plus on her blog and Instagram page. Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/love.joyandlanguages/ Podcast - https://lovejoyandlanguages.com/podcast/ Website and blog - https://lovejoyandlanguages.com/

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Are you bilingual or hoping to be? Wondering if you could teach your child another language? In this show, we discuss all things related to languages and multilingualism. Some episodes are interviews with people and parents about their experiences becoming bi/multilingual and raising their children in more than one language. Other episodes offer you tips and resources to improve your own language learning or that of your children. We hope to inspire you to join us in making the future more multilingual and multicultural.