Bilingual and Trilingual Parenting 101

A Practical Handbook for Multilingual Families: Activate Your Child’s Language Potential and Help Them Become Actively Bilingual or Trilingual

By: Ka Yee Meck

Narrated by: Ka Yee Meck

Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

Want to raise your child to be fluent in more than one language, but not sure where to start?

Feeling frustrated that your child can understand what you say, but always replies to you in English?

Trying to raise your child to speak an additional language but are not a native speaker yourself?

Look no further.

Bilingual and Trilingual Parenting 101: A Practical Handbook for Multilingual Families will help you tackle these problems and more.

Packed full of practical, no-nonsense tips and advice, this compact book will take you through the process of devising a unique language plan for your family, and explain to you, step-by-step, a tried-and-tested method for helping your child achieve fluency in your chosen language.

As a mother-of-two who is actively raising her children to be fluent in English, Russian and Chinese, the author will share with you all her personal experience and lessons she’s learnt while trying to raise trilingual kids. This is truly a book written by a parent, for parents!

If you’re looking for a highly readable, accessible book with all the information you need, and realistic, simple suggestions you can put into practice right now, today – this is the book for you.

In a nutshell, here’s what you’ll get from this book:

• Learn about the “Big Three” language strategies and how to implement them in practice
• A step-by-step guide on how to create a customised language plan for your family
• Learn about the benefits of being fluent in more than one language
• Detailed explanation of a tried-and-tested method to help your child become an active speaker of your target language
• Practical tips and advice covering a wide range of topics, including: weekend language schools, reading and writing, raising bilingual children as non-native speakers, and more.
• Fun and easy activity ideas
• Helpful list of resources

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021, 2023 Ka Yee Meck (P)2023 Ka Yee Meck

Helpful guide for raising bilingual and multilingual children

I was excited to find this book on Audible. I’m helping my granddaughter become bilingual and have many questions about the best way to do this. This book provides excellent information, both scientific and anecdotal, from a parent with personal experience in this area. The author has done a lot of research and has personal experience in teaching her children to be multilingual. The book is quick and easy to listen to and is full of helpful and practical information. It discusses the benefits of raising bilingual/multilingual children, addresses parents’ concerns, and explains various ways families can implement bilingual/multilingual education both at home and through online and community resources. Most helpful of all, she provides interesting and hands-on activities people can use to implement bilingual/multilingual education at home. At the end of the book she provides multiple websites for further study and resources, and a PDF with helpful information. I highly recommend this book for anybody interested in raising bilingual/multilingual children of any age.