My bilingual journey with my daughter is now over! She left home and started college this month! In the video below (at my new YouTube channel!), I reveal the final results of my bilingual aim for her and describe the 7 main actions I took that produced this outcome over the years of her childhood. ? Watch this video at my YouTube channel. (And please subscribe!) How about you? Feel free to share any impressions below. Or better yet, add a comment at my YouTube channel! The post The FINAL RESULTS of My Bilingual Journey appeared first on Bilingual Monkeys ..read more

BIG NEWS! I launched a new YouTube channel! Please check it out! And I’d love it if you subscribe to the channel, like the videos you watch, and leave comments for me there. Thanks so much for your support! I hope you find the videos fun and helpful! (One of them reveals the “final results” of my own bilingual journey.) And please share the link with others, as you can. https://www.youtube.com/@bilingualsuperkids The post BIG NEWS! I Have a New YouTube Channel! appeared first on Bilingual Monkeys ..read more

If you’re looking for ways to generate more momentum and progress this year for your family’s bilingual or multilingual journey, I can help in these 2 ways… 1. My brand-new masterclass is a self-paced course of video lessons, with exclusive downloadable resources and interactive support, that’s structured, practical, and motivating. Masterclass: How to Get Your Bilingual Child to Speak the Minority Language More Actively Learn more: https://bilingualsuperkids.podia.com/masterclass-1 2. My private coaching program, via Zoom, provides personal, customized support that lasts throughout the child ..read more

Parents of bilingual and multilingual kids, would you like some free and useful gifts to help power your progress through the holidays and beyond? Free Webinar: How to Get Your Bilingual Child Eagerly Shouting Out the Minority Language (Literally!) This 20-minute webinar details one of my most powerful secrets for success. If your child isn’t speaking the minority language as actively as you’d like, my free, on-demand webinar is a must-watch video! Get the link to watch it now. In fact, this webinar is just one piece of a much larger masterclass that will be available to access starting on Ja ..read more

This blog post is part of the 20-day #BilingualBlogathon organized by TA-DA! Language Productions and addresses the topic “Experts Weigh In: Proven Techniques for Raising Bilingual Kids”. Quick quiz! (There’s only one question so this won’t take long!) What is the one all-important and universal thing when it comes to successfully raising a bilingual child? (In fact, this is probably the only thing that’s actually universal for families worldwide and, without it, there’s no chance of success at all!) Hint: Yes, a child is vital—it’s hard to raise a bilingual child without the child part—but l ..read more

Adam Beck, bestselling author of the books Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability and Bilingual Success Stories Around the World, shares the simple, playful—and surprisingly powerful—strategy that can produce an exciting breakthrough for the greater success and joy of your family’s bilingual or multilingual journey. Click to watch this free webinar! The post Free, On-Demand Webinar for Parents: How to Get Your Bilingual Child Eagerly Shouting Out the Minority Language (Literally!) appeared first on Bilingual Monkeys ..read more

I’m happy to report that a new and very positive review has just been published about my book Bilingual Success Stories Around the World! In fact, it’s three reviews in one because they appear on the Kletsheads podcast, where three reviewers with expertise in child bilingualism discuss the book. (Thank you, Sharon, Ludovica, and Sam! I’m so glad you like it!) If you haven’t already read Bilingual Success Stories Around the World, please listen to the podcast and you’ll hear how the book could help you experience greater bilingual or multilingual success for your own family. Review of Bilingua ..read more

Last month my daughter was 6. Next month she’ll be 19. Now, factually, I know this isn’t true, but it certainly feels that way. As mindful as I tried to be when it came to the passing of time, day by day, in the end my kids have still grown into young adults much faster than I ever imagined. Today let me emphasize this key idea by sharing a few journal entries from a little 6-year-old girl, written years ago when she was in first grade in Japanese primary school. Each journal entry actually covers two or three pages in the notebook, but I’ll simply present the first page and then offer an Eng ..read more

ADAM’S NOTE: This blog has been graced with many insightful guest posts over the past 10 years and I highly recommend them all. Today’s guest post was written by trilingual speech-language pathologist Ana Paula Mumy and I feel honored to be able to share such a heartfelt and moving message. In fact, this is the fourth article that Ana Paula has written for Bilingual Monkeys and all of them are must-read posts: Speech-Language Pathologist Tells All About Bilingualism, Speech, and Language Delays Battling the Majority Language Giant (While Feeling Like a Minority Language Gnome) Engaging Your I ..read more

APPEAL FOR BOOK REVIEWS (Please read!) If you’ve read Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability, or any of my other books, and you found value in what you read, I’d be so grateful if you’d add a review to the book page at Amazon—even a short review would mean a lot to me and I’d love to see it. I know there are many readers who haven’t yet left a review and your reviews would be enormously helpful. The fact is, practically every book will get some 1-star reviews, but these are still really frustrating to the author and damaging to the book—especially when the review is actually mistaken about ..read more