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Keeping a Heritage Language Alive at Home
Why children who understand a language often refuse to speak it, and what actually shifts that. Written for families where the parents are fluent, the children are not, and one weekly class is not going to be enough on its own.
What's inside
- Passive and active: why comprehension arrives years before speech, and why that is normal
- The switch — the age most children start answering in English, and what to do the week it happens
- Twenty minutes a day that works better than a Saturday morning, and what to put in it
- Reading and script: when to start, and why starting too early puts children off for years
- Grandparents, video calls and the one question that gets a child talking
- What to do when a child is embarrassed by the language — the mistake almost every family makes here