Keywords: Absolutely Intercultural, bi-cultural, bilingual, podcast
September 10, 2007
The latter refers to people with parents from different cultures who haven't learned the two parental languages and is one of the topics for the latest episode of Absolutely Intercultural. Bilingualism is something which monoglots have difficulty in believing. I experience this often in regard to our two daughters who are equally at home in English and Danish but still people are incredulous. An immigrant Dane even told me off one day for 'confusing' my daughters by having them speak English as well as Danish. In our case we were in danger of cutting off the whole family rather than just half the family if the girls had not been able to speak English so for us there was never any question of avoiding English. The combinations explored in the show are Austrian-English, German-Italian and German-Brazilian.
Posted by Anne Fox
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