Materials
Bilingual Family is the follow-up to the Erasmus+ project PEaCH. Here you can find the original PEaCH materials as well as new and updated ones. All materials are free for you to download and use. Bilingual Family relies on donations – so if you like our materials, we would appreciate a donation to allow us to continue creating more materials to support bilingual children across the world.
Getting Started!
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Our Guides
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VideOs & Music
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Printable material
Our Guides
Guide for parents: How to raise a bilingual child
Our highly popular guide for parents passing on the family languages and cultures to their children has been downloaded over 13 000 times since it was published in 2021! It will not only give you research-based advice and practical tips, but it will boost your confidence that you can successfully raise your child to speak more than one language. Available in English, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Español, and Română.
Guide for parents: How to raise a bilingual child
Our highly popular guide for parents passing on the family languages and cultures to their children has been downloaded over 13 000 times since it was published in 2021! It will not only give you research-based advice and practical tips, but it will boost your confidence that you can successfully raise your child to speak more than one language. Available in English, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Español, and Română.
Guide for educators: How to support multilingual children
The first part of our educators’ guide explains why a positive attitude to multilingualism is crucial, and in the second part you can find how to implement this in your school or daycare setting. You will find detailed instructions for collective actions as well as many engaging, individual activities to do with the children. Available in English, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, and Español.
Guide for educators: How to support multilingual children
The first part of our educators’ guide explains why a positive attitude to multilingualism is crucial, and in the second part you can find how to implement this in your school or daycare setting. You will find detailed instructions for collective actions as well as many engaging, individual activities to do with the children. Available in English, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, and Español.
MUSIC
Our Spotify collection
Playlists with children’s songs in several different languages for age groups 0-3, 3-6, and 6-12 years. Singing for or together with your child is a fun way to introduce and maintain a language. It is also an excellent way for you to get used to speaking a language if you are expecting a baby with whom you will speak a language you may not have used for a while.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Our YouTube collection
Our “How to raise a bilingual child” video series on topics such as debunking myths, motivating a child to speak, introducing your language to your child, family language strategy, and language learning in every day life. Conference presentations featuring Antonella Sorace, Annick de Houwer, Mary-Pat O’Malley, and many more. Children’s stories in different languages, and other videos.
Our collection of printable material!
Except for the alphabets, all our printable material are language independent. Use them for storytelling, vocabulary learning, memory games (print twice) or cut up to jigsaws – the only limit is your imagination! Do tell us what you did at info@bilingualfamily.org