Latest Multilingual Podcast Episodes
160: 8 toys to help you teach baby Spanish in a fun way
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - April 04, 2017 07:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsYou can teach baby Spanish by setting a strong development foundation from the early days. A baby’s brain has the ability to grow at an outstanding rate! Babies are amazing! They have so much to learn in that first year of life. I have personally found the first year with each of my little ones ...
159: My personal language story & what I learned from it
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - March 28, 2017 03:15 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this special episode of Bilingual Avenue, I share with you my personal struggles around language and how my family and I handled our ups and downs. I also share with you my lessons learned and how it led me to create Bilingual Avenue.
158: How to teach your kids Spanish with five easy actions!
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - March 21, 2017 15:40 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsTeaching your kids Spanish seems daunting but with a combination of mindset and action you can establish a strong foundation for your kids’ language journey. You can do this whether you are teaching your kids your native language or whether you are choosing to pass on to them one that you learn...
157: Bilingual Play Date Activities
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - March 09, 2017 15:35 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I share activities that you can carry out at a bilingual play date. Let’s talk a bit about how children of different ages play. This will help you with your planning and to make sure that you are meeting the needs of your participants. Play date activity ...
156: How to host a bilingual play date
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - February 28, 2017 08:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsA language play date is a great way to add more exposure and create a need for your kids to use the target language! There is something just magical about bilingual kids seeing their peers actively engaging in the same target language. Personally it has been very useful for our language journe...
155: Music for your bilingual kids & how to find it!
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - February 21, 2017 08:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsMusic is one my favorite tools to integrate into the language learning process for little kids. Songs provide a simple, fun and interactive way for children to interact with language and with culture. There are also many benefits to incorporating music into your language journey. Read through...
154: Get the most out of the reading routine with your bilingual kids
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - February 17, 2017 21:03 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsA reading routine is essential in any home and arguably even more so in a bilingual household! Reading aloud to your kids is the most effective and perhaps simplest technique you can use to support your children’s language and literacy skills. Research has found that the number of words that a...
152: Accountability: A to Z of Raising Bilingual Kids
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - February 07, 2017 18:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsHave you ever thought about how accountability can help you on the bilingual journey? This month, bloggers from around the world are coming together to write about the fascinating world of raising bilingual kids with topics from A to Z. Bilingual Avenue is kicking things off with accountabil...
153: Valentine's day activities for bilingual kids
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - February 07, 2017 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I help you take action on your language journey by sharing 3 activities you can do with your kids around valentine's day! Each of these three activities can be adapted for any time of year. The key is to show your kids the power of love, relationships and f...
151: One Parent, One Language as a single parent
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - January 24, 2017 15:24 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I chat with Aimee Helfand, the creator of BabyLeague and Famileague on her approach to raising a bilingual child as a single mom.
150: 2016 recap - What worked and what didn't
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - January 17, 2017 12:57 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode, Todd and I give you a recap of our year as a bilingual family.
149: Pitfalls for bilingual families and how to avoid them with Laura & Abner Solano
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - January 11, 2017 01:27 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I chat with Laura and Abner Solano about their language journey. We discuss podcasts, learning targets for bilingual kids and how to avoid the most common pitfalls for bilingual families.
148: Q&A - 18 easy tips to boost vocabulary and grammar in the target language
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - December 22, 2016 03:21 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I share 18 tips from the Bilingual Avenue Advent Calendar. These are quick, fun and easy tips that you can easily implement at home any time of the year.
Academic Editing with Roma Ilnyckyj
Language U - December 19, 2016 21:56Language U talks to Roma Ilnyckyj, an editor at the science communications company Talk Science to Me, about her work as an editor of scientific and other academic language, the ethics of editing student work and the complicated relationship between editing and writing, especially with work by mu...
147: Parenting Abroad with Jennifer Langkjaer
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - December 14, 2016 12:19 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I chat with Jennifer Langkjaer from Parenting Abroad about her parenting experience with multilingual children in Switzerland.
146: How to make your own bilingual audio book
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - December 06, 2016 18:46 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I walk you step by step through how to make your very own audio book. This is specially a great resource if you have a hard time finding books in your own target language.
145: How to choose the right school for your bilingual child
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - November 29, 2016 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I host a consulting call with a Bilingual Avenue Member. We talk about school choices for bilingual families, accents and who involved we should be in supporting the community language.
144: Q&A - 6 tips to feeling more natural when speaking the target language
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - November 29, 2016 14:51 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I share 6 tips specifically for parents who sometimes feel awkward when speaking the target language. These are great ideas to get you going and feeling more confident!
143: Learning the parenting lingo as a non-native speaker with Aileen Passariello-McAleer
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - November 08, 2016 22:09 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I chat with the creator of Mama Lingua about her personal experience raising bilingual kids in a non-native language. We also talk about the wonderful app that she has developed for other non-native parents!
142: Q&A - How to make a language plan
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - November 02, 2016 02:22 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I talk about language plans and what you need to have in yours! Don't delay, get started on a plan and give yourself some direction as to what to do next to help your kids on their language journey.
141: Proactively supporting language learning in the home with Christobel Clark
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - October 26, 2016 03:04 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of the podcast, I host a consulting call with a Bilingual Avenue member. We discuss a wide set of activities that parents can implement at home with their kids to add rigor to their children's language learning experience.
140: Q&A - Should you drop a language if a child has a speech delay?
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - October 18, 2016 21:43 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsIn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I chat about speech and language delays. Should you worry that speaking more than one language will impact your child's speech and language development? If you are have any concerns at all, you'll want to tune into this episode.
139: Imperfect Bilingual Parenting
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - October 04, 2016 07:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I interview Nicole Schwarz from Imperfect Families about some of the struggles we have as parents when trying to do the right thing for our children and getting overwhelmed in the process. Nicole also shares excellent tips for setting personal and parenting ...
129: How Emiko Rasmussen Overcame the Language Barrier in USA
Expand Your World with Queenie Kawabe - September 29, 2016 15:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn this episode Emiko Rasmussen will share how she overcame the language barrier when she came to US and eventually embraced the English language. Emiko was born and raised in Japan and came to US as an international student in 2003. With lots of challenges and hard work, she had graduated as...
128: How Lindsay Dow Used Social Media to Learn Languages
Expand Your World with Queenie Kawabe - September 29, 2016 01:08 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsLindsay Dow is from the United Kingdom and loves teaching and inspiring people to learn languages. She also loves to blog, vlog, eat, sleep, breathe everything language. In this podcast, she gives insights on how she learned so many languages and how social media can help you learn languages fas...
138: How to raise a bilingual child: The three elements you need for language success
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - September 27, 2016 14:42 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, we talk about the three must have elements for success on the language journey! Through my time working with bilingual families I have noticed that those families that are achieving greater success on the journey have 1) set goals, 2) designed a language pla...
127: How Olga Mecking Effectively Taught Her Children to be Trilingual
Expand Your World with Queenie Kawabe - September 27, 2016 01:47 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOlga Mecking lives in Netherlands with her German husband and three trilingual children. She is a blogger, writer and translator. In this episode she shares with us how they brought up their trilingual children. She currently runs a blog about her life in Europe, raising children and travelling....
Academic Writing in Canada with Dr. Anthony Paré
Language U - September 26, 2016 21:12We talk to Dr. Anthony Paré about how academic writing is taught at universities in Canada, how that differs from the way it is done in the United States, and why the belief that the writing centre is a place to “send the broken students” persists.
126: How Milena Nguyen Loves the Life She Lives and Expanded Her World
Expand Your World with Queenie Kawabe - September 22, 2016 15:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsMilena Nyugen is a writer, speaker, teacher and founder of Soulful Garden learning center. She has a zest in life and has expanded her world by travelling to 20 countries and learning their culture. In this episode listen to what she had learned and the golden nuggets of wisdom she provides to t...
137: Fun & easy strategies to teach complex vocabulary
Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - September 20, 2016 16:41 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsOn this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I host a consulting call with Angelica Engelmann. We chat about how to teach grammar, support the learning process of the community language and fun vocabulary instruction.