Navigating Multilingual Parenting as an Expat

Janina Burmeister is a mom and Montessorian living in Valencia, Spain. Janina is originally from Germany but she has lived abroad for the past twenty years! In this episode, Janina shares her experiences as an expat living in nine countries over the past two decades, and how that has shaped her cultural and linguistic identity.

Janina and her husband have a five-year-old son Henry who speaks three languages: German, English and Spanish. When Henry was a baby, Janina and her husband, who are both educators, realized that his language wasn't developing as quickly as they would have expected. Instead of deciding to speak in only one language to him, as some people recommended, they decided to get him checked out by a doctor. Janina shares that experience and what her son's language progress has been since then.

Janina also shares her journey to becoming a Montessorian and what advice she would give to parents wanting to raise their child with two or more languages.

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