By Kimine Mayuzumi Following up with the popular blog post, Beyond Bilingualism: 4 Tips for Raising Trilingual Children, I have decided to dig through my old file to find the piece I wrote six years ago and share with the readers. In the piece, I tried to see things from the perspective of my 8-year-old son when I wrote it. But, of course, it is obvious that my adult views are very much implicated. I…
By Kimine Mayuzumi and Riyad A. Shahjahan As a transnational couple, for years, we’ve encountered the following question: “How do you raise trilingual kids?” Simply living a transnational and inter-linguistic marriage/relationship does not guarantee an inclusive multilingual home environment. There are moments and situations when children may question multilingualism, particularly when surrounded by monolingualism (in our case English). At times, we may question offering a multiple linguistic environment to our children as we may feel…
By Kimine Mayuzumi and Riyad A. Shahjahan What do you like to do for your family time or personal time? We love watching movies with our kids. Since it is the holiday season right now, watching movies is a great way for us to be lazy and slow down as a family! Given that we’re in North America, we tend to be bombarded by movies that depict Western contexts and White male perspectives, while…
