(I wrote this in 2016 but never hit the Publish button. I’m hoping some stuff might still be relevant. I’ve embellished with Emojis) https://twitter.com/albertofaci The Master Plan It wasn’t about becoming rich, but rather to learn a bit more about online businesses that sell physical goods. I thought I’d create an online store…

☝️ You should read this if you want your children to speak your native language and you live in a place and with a partner of a different majority language — Living in an area of London where there are plenty of multicultural families, and having children of nursery and school age, I see how families succeed and fail to different degrees in achieving multilingualism. In this article I introduce 7 common patterns I’ve seen when things start going south. …

Can the heritage language be reinforced with TV? — Being in a trilingual environment (Spanish and Russian indoors and English outdoors), there’s always the question of what language they kids should watch the cartoons. (I’m skipping the debate on whether kids should watch cartoons at all. Let’s assume they’re going to watch them. …

I’m in the middle of the trilingualism journey at the moment. To clear things up, I’ll just start as a quick definition, a trilingual child is a child raised in three languages. The most common case, and the one I will cover, is where each parent contributes with their native…