Having spent ten years living in France, I always wanted my children to find languages easy. Now I’m back in the UK, with a talkative two-year-old, I’m finding that children do find language easy – so easy in fact, that it barely matters what language you’re using.So what does it take to bring up bilingual children? Is it an extra burden on the family or does the child take on the extra language with ease?Rule number one: don’t be afraidWe used to believe that children wouldn’t be … [Read more...]