Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq
Bilingual Avenue is a podcast created for parents raising bilingual children and educators teaching dual language learners. The Bilingual Avenue podcast is a guide on what to do, how to do it and what to expect when working with multilingual children. Tune in for insightful interviews with experts and parents as they share best practices, failures, obstacles and inspiration to guide your journey with bilingual children. If you are looking for resources, strategies and actionable tips, Bilingual Avenue is for you!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 175
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2018
156: How to host a bilingual play date
A language play date is a great way to add more exposure and create a need for your kids to use the target language! There is something just magical about bilingual kids seeing their peers actively e…
155: Music for your bilingual kids & how to find it!
Music is one my favorite tools to integrate into the language learning process for little kids. Songs provide a simple, fun and interactive way for children to interact with language and with cultur…
154: Get the most out of the reading routine with your bilingual kids
A reading routine is essential in any home and arguably even more so in a bilingual household!
Reading aloud to your kids is the most effective and perhaps simplest technique you can use to support y…
152: Accountability: A to Z of Raising Bilingual Kids
Have you ever thought about how accountability can help you on the bilingual journey?
This month, bloggers from around the world are coming together to write about the fascinating world of raising bi…
153: Valentine's day activities for bilingual kids
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I help you take action on your language journey by sharing 3 activities you can do with your kids around valentine's day!
Each of these three activities can be ad…
151: One Parent, One Language as a single parent
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I chat with Aimee Helfand, the creator of BabyLeague and Famileague on her approach to raising a bilingual child as a single mom.
150: 2016 recap - What worked and what didn't
On this episode, Todd and I give you a recap of our year as a bilingual family.
149: Pitfalls for bilingual families and how to avoid them with Laura & Abner Solano
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I chat with Laura and Abner Solano about their language journey. We discuss podcasts, learning targets for bilingual kids and how to avoid the most common pitfal…
148: Q&A - 18 easy tips to boost vocabulary and grammar in the target language
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I share 18 tips from the Bilingual Avenue Advent Calendar. These are quick, fun and easy tips that you can easily implement at home any time of the year.
147: Parenting Abroad with Jennifer Langkjaer
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I chat with Jennifer Langkjaer from Parenting Abroad about her parenting experience with multilingual children in Switzerland.
146: How to make your own bilingual audio book
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I walk you step by step through how to make your very own audio book. This is specially a great resource if you have a hard time finding books in your own target…
145: How to choose the right school for your bilingual child
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I host a consulting call with a Bilingual Avenue Member. We talk about school choices for bilingual families, accents and who involved we should be in supporting…
144: Q&A - 6 tips to feeling more natural when speaking the target language
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I share 6 tips specifically for parents who sometimes feel awkward when speaking the target language. These are great ideas to get you going and feeling more con…
143: Learning the parenting lingo as a non-native speaker with Aileen Passariello-McAleer
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I chat with the creator of Mama Lingua about her personal experience raising bilingual kids in a non-native language. We also talk about the wonderful app that …
142: Q&A - How to make a language plan
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I talk about language plans and what you need to have in yours! Don't delay, get started on a plan and give yourself some direction as to what to do next to help…
141: Proactively supporting language learning in the home with Christobel Clark
On this episode of the podcast, I host a consulting call with a Bilingual Avenue member. We discuss a wide set of activities that parents can implement at home with their kids to add rigor to their …
140: Q&A - Should you drop a language if a child has a speech delay?
In this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I chat about speech and language delays. Should you worry that speaking more than one language will impact your child's speech and language development? If you …
139: Imperfect Bilingual Parenting
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I interview Nicole Schwarz from Imperfect Families about some of the struggles we have as parents when trying to do the right thing for our children and getting o…
138: How to raise a bilingual child: The three elements you need for language success
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, we talk about the three must have elements for success on the language journey! Through my time working with bilingual families I have noticed that those familie…
137: Fun & easy strategies to teach complex vocabulary
On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, I host a consulting call with Angelica Engelmann. We chat about how to teach grammar, support the learning process of the community language and fun vocabulary i…