Meet the multilingual migrant family
In this video you will meet a Javanese-speaking family from Suriname and learn about their struggle to maintain their language across generations. Javanese Surinamese is a language spoken by an …
Course: Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities
Expat family on home language maintenance
In this video our multilingual expat family discusses language use, home language maintenance and explicit language policies in the family. This family is managing several languages at the same time. …
Language policy in the family
Since most children do not begin schooling until aged 5 or 6, the near total of the child’s exposure to only the home language takes place during the most important …
The Current Trends in Language Policies for Multilingualism
The consecutive waves of large-scale immigration, EU free movement and, lately, rapid globalisation have increased linguistic diversity across Western Europe. This linguistic diversity can also be observed in schools and …
Meet a language policy adviser
You will watch a policy adviser working for the regional government of the Province of Friesland in the Netherlands describing his work on language policy making. He will tell you …
Urban multilingualism and linguistic landscape studies
Walking down a shopping street in any city around the world means a confrontation with great quantities of commercial signage. We see brand names and advertisements all around us and …
Meet the multilingual single parent family
In this video you will watch an interview with a single parent migrant family who has recently settled down in the Netherlands. You will learn about their languages and their …
Common Language Hierarchy
If you read the step on common language hierarchy, was it very different from your own? In which ways? As mentioned earlier, such a hierarchy is our own construction, reflecting …
Language hierarchy
Our underlying ideas about languages influence how we see languages in our societies and also how interact with different speakers of those languages. However, many of our ideas about the …
Defining multilingualism
After the VoxPop fragments and the discussion about multilingualism, we would like to share an academic view on multilingualism with you. The basis of this step is the first chapter …
What is multilingualism to you?
The views on what multilingualism is and what is means for individuals and societies differ greatly. Do you need to speak several languages at a high level to be a …
Facts about multilingualism
You have now completed our quiz! Well done! We hope you had fun with the quiz and discovered some interesting facts about the world’s multilingualism. Here is a brief summary …
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