Category: children
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Music in my ears
For a teenage boy in Germany (and I guess many other parts in the world), there are really just two possible dream careers: football player and rock star. I was firmly in the latter camp. Then like today, and really like all my life, I’ve had an unreasonable aversion to…
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When Little Orange meets Little Bread Roll
Names come and go like fashion. Baby names that are really popular and modern today will sound like typical mommy and daddy names in 25 years from now. In 60 years they will sound like granny names. Today’s Noahs and Olivias will be tomorrow’s Michaels and Jessicas and will be…
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Raising a trilingual child
When we were expecting our first child, I read, like many parents-to-be, lots of books on how to raise kids. Most of them largely agreed with what I thought was common sense, but one book that I particularly liked was Raising A Bilingual Child by Barbara Zurer Pearson. It explained…
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Say it in German
I recently bought my son a new book. It’s a book about a wolf and a sheep. The wolf invites the sheep for dinner – but the sheep is the dinner. Of course, it’s a children’s book for 3-year-olds, so the wolf soon realises that he actually likes the sheep…
Grammar and Tones 