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Multilingual Mamas
by Multilingual Mamas
Podcast by Multilingual Mamas
Episodes
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Episode 43: Learning Spanish at a Bilingual Elementary School
In this episode we interviewed Anna Attal, a native English speaker who attended a dual immersion school in Spanish. She tells us about her experience learning Spanish as well as the other benefits of early exposure to other languages and cultures. Overall, she highly recommends the program and...
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Episode 42: Staring into our futures?
In this episode, we interview María Elena Gutiérrez, daughter of a Spanish dad and American mother, who grew up in the US, went to UT Austin, became a dual immersion teacher, and is raising two bilingual daughters. Given that our children have similar profiles, we allow ourselves to imagine that...
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Episode 40: An International Upbringing
In this episode we sit down with the two adult daughters of Spaniards, Mili and Pedro, who we interviewed in our last episode of season 3. Sofia and Paula grew up between Germany, the United States, and Hungary, and have now decided to study in the Netherlands. They reflect back on their...
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Season 3 Finale
We wrap season 3 of multilingual mamas reflecting back on the diverse selection of interviews we conducted this season. This time around, we learned about testing practices in US public schools, the bilingual parenting mental load, and how raising bilingual children in a country where two…
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Episode 39 : Are you born Hispanic or raised Hispanic?
Lina Mueller, the daughter of two Americans who was born and raised in Guatemala, discusses what it was like to grow up speaking Spanish without it being a part of her familial heritage, the confusion some express when they hear a Guatemalan accent come out of a blonde who also speaks perfect...
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Episode 38: Y no comparar, no intentar vivir en el país al que vas como si fuese todavía tu país
En este episodio hablamos con Mili Paredes y su marido Pedro, una pareja española que emigró a Alemania y que ha criado a sus hijas en tres países diferentes: Alemania, EE .UU . y Hungría. Nos hablan de los factores que tuvieron en cuenta a la hora de mudarse, las ventajas y desventajas de su...
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Episode 37: The Monday through Friday Method
In this episode we chat with the Mayers, a family of two non-native speakers of Spanish raising their two children bilingual in Spanish and English using an unconventional method. Instead of the more common, one parent-one language method, they would speak in Spanish Monday through Friday and...
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Episode 36: Raising Bilingual Children in the US When you Know English is a Political Act
In this episode we sit down with Dr. Kim Potowski, professor at the University of Illinois Chicago and one of the leading experts on dual immersion and Spanish heritage speakers in the United States. She discusses not only the lessons she’s learned from working with Hispanic families trying to...
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Episode 35: Bilingual Playdate
In this episode we talk with Diandra Morse, a social worker and founder of Bilingual Playdate, an Instagram account and online platform that advocates for multilingualism and serves as a resource for bilingual families. Diandra discusses many topics in this interview including their family’s...
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Episode 34: Reframing and Reclaiming Heritage Languages
When Veronica Benavides decided to reclaim her Spanish, a language she was discouraged from speaking as a child in Texas, and raise her children in her heritage language, she realized that most bilingual parenting resources for non-dominant parents were geared towards second language speakers....
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Episode 33: The Bilingual School Psychologist
In this episode we talk to Juliana Ramírez, a bilingual school psychologist and owner of a consulting firm, PERA Services, who explains everything you need to know about special education services, your rights in the US, and how bilingualism might impact your child’s assessment for services. One…
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Episode 32: Growing up Hispanic in English-only Arizona
Dr. Sergio Loza, professor and Director of the Spanish heritage program at the University of Oregon, discusses his experiences growing up in Arizona in the late 90s and early 2000s when English-only and other anti-immigrant legislation was being passed. He describes how he went from hating…
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Episode 31 : Multilingual mama in Montréal
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein, a Professor of Developmental Psychology at Concordia University, who specializes in infant development with a focus on language acquisition. She talks about her personal experiences growing up bilingual in Canada, as well as raising a...
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Episode 30: Parlant català a Barcelona
In this episode, we chat with Dr. Silvia Perpiñán, a linguist at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and mother of a trilingual daughter. One of the languages Silvia and her daughter speak is Catalán, the Romance language native to several regions of Spain and southern France, but which is now a...
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Episode 29: Why are you getting a B in Spanish? Aren’t you Hispanic?
In this episode we talk to Dr. Julio Torres, professor of Spanish at UC Irvine and specialist in bilingual education and instructed heritage language acquisition. Dr. Torres, who himself grew up bilingual between Puerto Rico and the mainland US, reflects on the language ideologies he encountered…
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Episode 28: Bilingualism through three generations of Burkels: insights from two siblings
In this episode we talk with Burkel siblings Eric and Martine about their experience uprooting their lives in Southern California in the early 70s and moving to France as pre-teens. They discuss the difficulties they encountered not being able to attend public French school due to not speaking…
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Episode 27: Hungarian, Romanian, German, oh my!
Dr. Iulia Pittman, born and raised in a Hungarian-speaking region of Romania, has dedicated her life to learning and teaching languages. Her recent work in the United States as a German professor and linguist has shown her firsthand just how challenging it can be to raise multilingual children...
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Season 2 Finale
We wrap up our second season of Multilingual Mamas reflecting, once more, on all the things we have learned from professionals and fellow parents. This has been a big year for us, going from adding members to our families to seeing our kids become more and more verbal as well as aware of their...
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Episode 26: The Spanglish Girl
In this episode, we sit down with bilingual children’s book author, Natalia Simons, a Spanish-English bilingual who grew up in England. She talks about her desire to help children going through the experiences of isolation, confusion, and alienation that can come with bilingualism and...
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Episode 25: When there’s no place like home
In this episode we tackle an issue that comes up for many multilingual or multicultural families: moving. We talk with psychiatrist Dr. Alma Moser about her work with “third-culture kids”, or children who are forming their own individual identity, different from that of both their parents and…
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Episode 24: Following a job to Belgium
University professor, Jöelle Muhlemann, recently moved with her two adolescent sons and husband to Belgium from the United States. Her children were already trilingual, speaking French, English and Swiss German, and Jöelle talks to us about what the process of adapting to life in Belgium and...
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Episode 23: The Impact of Dual Immersion
Gabriella Gómez Saxon, a proud Colombian-American and Wake Forest University student currently studying abroad in Spain, talks to us about growing up bilingual in North Carolina and attending a K-8 dual immersion school. She talks about how important it was for her to have Hispanic friends and…
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Episode 22 - A teenager's take
In this episode of Multilingual Mamas we talk to Mavi Turner, a bilingual young adult who shares with us her experience growing up bilingual in the US. She discusses her relationship with Spanish grammar as well as how she felt visiting family in Spain at different times during her childhood and...
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Episode 21 - El suizo [Spanish edition]
En este capítulo hablamos con Javier Garrido que nació y se crió en Suiza, como muchos de los hijos de inmigrantes españoles que emigraron a diferentes países a finales de los años 60 con el objetivo de mejorar su calidad de vida. Javier nos cuenta que él nunca se llegó a sentir suizo -aunque así...
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Episode 19: Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Eastern Europe
IMPORTANT NOTE: This episode was recorded before Russia invaded Ukraine.Our interviewee is raising her children as Russian-Spanish bilinguals and has strong Ukrainian family ties. We hope that this episode serves to show how complex multilingualism and multiculturalism is for many people who grow...
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Episode 18: The Language Therapist
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Amelia Tseng, a sociolinguist at the Smithsonian and American University who also grew up bilingual and bicultural in an immigrant family. She delves into the social side of multilingualism, at the individual, family, and societal levels. We discuss how different...
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Episode 17: Adopted Bilingualism
In this episode, we sit down with Joseph and Karina Collentine, two Spanish professors and linguists who adopted their two daughters from Guatemala. They discuss how their daughters’ proximity in age, race, and experience living in Arizona have uniquely shaped their linguistic and cultural...
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Episode 16: Shout out to all you Multilingual Mamas out there!
In this episode, we interview Malwina Gudowska, a PhD student in linguistics and bilingualism, who has researched how raising bilingual children affects us mamas. We talk about the additional mom guilt, the stress of being the only input your child receives in one of her languages, and how moms…
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Episode 20: François Grosjean is kind of a big deal
After over 40 years researching bilingualism and biculturalism, publishing 10 books, founding one of the most important academic journals in bilingualism, writing a bilingualism blog for 10 years, and raising two multilingual sons, Francois Grosjean sits down to chat with us on a variety of…
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Episode 14: Bilingualism on the spectrum
For our first episode of season 2, we sat down with Erin McKenna to talk about her experience raising three bilingual children, including a son diagnosed with both Down's Syndrome and Autism. She offers insight into the unique challenges each child faces when acquiring language and how a signing...
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Season 1 Finale
In the season 1 finale episode, Sara and Lauren reflect back on one year of Multilingual Mamas, including their favorite moments, what they’ve learned, and how it has changed their multilingual parenting. This episode also includes an update on their children’s language development and a preview…
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Episode 13: Raising a 3rd generation bilingual
In this episode, we interview Jason Lee, whose parents, both native Korean speakers, raised him bilingual in Korean and English in the United States. Both he and his wife are second-generation speakers of Korean raising their three-year-old son to be bilingual. Research often finds that...
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Episode 12: Immersion schools, how do they work?
In this episode, we interview Principal Robert Ash of Speas Global Elementary School, a public IB and Spanish-Language Dual Language Immersion School in Winston-Salem, NC. He shares with us research and personal experiences showing the numerous linguistic, academic, economic, and cultural…
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Episode 11: What does a speech language pathologist have to say?
In this episode we interview Holly Hinshelwood, an English-Spanish bilingual speech language pathologist. She discusses some of the common misconceptions about bilingual speech development that we see among parents and sometimes uninformed health care providers. Furthermore, Holly explains how…
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Episode 10 : Raising bilingual children as a non-native speaker (a Dad's perspective)
In this episode Dr. Daniel J. Olson tells us about how he and his wife, non-native Spanish speakers, decided to raise their daughters bilingual English-Spanish. Dan is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Purdue University and he shares with us his expertise with codeswitching and how normal this...
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Episode 9: Family language policy in a trilingual household.
In this episode we interview Dr. Zsuzsanna Fagyal, a Hungarian mom who decided to raise her children trilingual with her French spouse while living in the US. Zsuzsanna tells us about how she and her spouse decided on a family language policy to optimize trilingual language acquisition for her...
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Episode 8: Growing up bilingual in San Francisco
In this episode we interviewed Charles Uselman, a French-English bilingual child, (now adult), who tell us about his experience growing up with two languages in San Francisco, California. He discusses his personal experience attending a French school (L'Alliance) in the US and opens up about some...
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Episode 7: You don't need to be bilingual to raise bilingual children (bilingual education)
In this episode we interview Hannah Inzko and Tamara McLaughin, two monolingual-raised mothers who decided to send their kids to bilingual (Spanish-English) schools. They tell us about their experiences pre- and post-pandemic, and discuss the motivation and reasons that led them to make this...
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Episode 6: Review of the book Language Strategies for Trilingual Families: Parents' perspectives
In this episode we discuss the pros and cons of this book. Overall, this book is a good read. Andreas Braun and Tony Cline do a good job at explaining and summarizing the limited research conducted with trilingual/multilingual families and their linguistic practices. We were drawn to this book...
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Episode 5: La scuola della mamma
In this episode we interview Silvia Tiboni-Craft, a native of Urbino (Italy), who has lived in the US for more than 10 years. She is raising her twin daughters Vittoria and Julia bilingual in Italian and English. She is in the process of starting to teach her daughters who to read in Italian and...
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Episode 4: The Chill Mamãe
In this episode we welcome Brunella Martinelli de Medeiros Fiuza, a native of Vitória, Brazil, who now lives in Johnson City, TN. Both Brunella and her husband are trilingual, being native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, and second language speakers of English and Spanish. In this episode, we...
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Episode 3: Raising Bilingual Children in the 90s (A British AuPair in Paris)
In episode 3 of Multilingual Mamas, we interview Ariane Brearly-Smith, a British mother of 3 bilingual French-English now adult men. She tells us what it was like raising bilingual children in Europe in the 90s and how she worked hard for her children to learn, not only English, but British...
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Episode 2: The Cliffs Notes of Child Language Acquisition
In episode 2 of Multilingual Mamas, we discuss monolingual and bilingual child language acquisition. Our very first guest, Dr. Tania Ionin, who is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializes in adult and child language acquisition. She walks us…
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Episode 1: What Multilingualism is NOT
In episode 1 of Multilingual Mamas, we discuss some popular myths about bilingualism and the research behind the reality. We discuss the idea that bilingualism confuses children, that real bilinguals learned both their languages from birth, and many more. At the end, we also discuss some…
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Episodio Zero : About Us
In this episode, we introduce ourselves and our linguistic background. We discuss the languages we speak with our partners and children, some the strategies that we use with our children, and we end the episode explaining why we decided to create this podcast.
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