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Labeled drawings provide a wide range of everyday terms from the telephone to human anatomy in English and Arabic.

Labeled drawings provide a wide range of everyday terms from the telephone to human anatomy in English and French.

Labeled drawings provide a wide range of everyday terms from the telephone to human anatomy in English and Hindi.

Includes thousands of contemporary technical, political, and business terms. More than 390,000 entries and translations. Extensive coverage of Latin-American Spanish.

Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures, or even that you have multiple personalities? Can you become bilingual only as a child? Why do bilinguals switch from one language to another in mid-sentence? Will raising bilingual children confuse and delay their learning of any language? In this book, the author, an international authority on bilingualism, son of an English mother and a French father, explores the many facets of bilingualism. He draws on research, interviews, autobiographies, and the engaging examples of bilingual authors. He describes the various strategies, some useful, some not, used by parents raising bilingual children, explains how children easily pick up and forget languages, and considers how bilingualism affects the experience and expression of emotions, thoughts, and dreams. This book shows that speaking two or more languages is not a sign of intelligence, evasiveness, cultural alienation, or political disloyalty. For millions of people, it is simply a way of navigating the complexities of life.

Told through key historical moments, current experiments to improve immigrant education and profiles of immigrant students, this groundbreaking book will reshape how we all think about nurturing one of America's greatest assets-the newcomers who enrich this country with their energy, talents and drive.

"Aimed at (existing or soon-to-be) parents in families where more than one language is spoken, as well as anyone in the extended circle of family and friend of such multilingual families, as well as for anyone coming into contact with them. The aim of the book is to help multilingual families to create a supportive environment for children in which they naturally grow up to speak more than one language. The intention is to give you an easy-to-read-and-use guide to multilingual parenting, providing motivation, ideas, advice and answers to any questions parents may have."--Amazon.ca.

Step-by-step approach to help you determine and achieve your bilingual goals for your child.