Mimi Potvin

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Mimi Potvin

Mimi Potvin

@bilingual_lab

Nerd.Linguaphile.#Multilingualism and #Bilingualism advocate.Linguist #LanguageConsultant.Blogger at https://t.co/uB7xCMS1J3 #Expat.Mum of 2🇧🇬🇨🇦🇩🇪🇳🇱

Amsterdam, The Netherlands Katılım Mart 2022
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Antonella Sorace
Antonella Sorace@AntoSorace·
The next Bilingualism Matters Symposium will take place in Edinburgh on 24-25 March 2025. The call for papers is out and can be found here: bilingualism-matters.org/events/bilingu… Submit abstracts and encourage submissions! And plan to come to beautiful Edinburgh and attend in person.
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Mimi Potvin
Mimi Potvin@bilingual_lab·
@chrislinguist Indeed! German sounds off putting to many people but it’s a beautiful language and incredibly versatile once you’ve got the “hang” of it
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Christopher Hughes MBE
Christopher Hughes MBE@chrislinguist·
If you lose German from the curriculum, you miss out on the benefits of family ties with English, the most spoken native language in the EU, a major language of engineering, business & science & a gateway to Dutch & Scandinavian languages. Don’t close the doors that German opens.
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Mimi Potvin
Mimi Potvin@bilingual_lab·
Advice from a bilingual eight-year-old on language learning: Stop thinking so much, let go and just talk. It doesn’t matter if you’re saying it right. #raisingbilingualchildren
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Mimi Potvin@bilingual_lab·
Absolutely! Couldn’t agree more. 👏Languages are also about new ways of viewing the world and doing life! Very much like discovering Narnia - every new language opens a door to a whole new world.
Christopher Hughes MBE@chrislinguist

Languages are no harder than many other subjects. Not everyone speaks English (far from it). A language gives you a huge advantage in countless jobs across multiple disciplines. Languages are about culture & people, as well as words & grammar. Languages are for everyone.

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Mimi Potvin
Mimi Potvin@bilingual_lab·
Struggling to motivate your child to read in your home-language? For all the parents navigating this journey, educators aiming to support parents/caregivers or anyone curious about it, tune in to discover practical, real-world strategies that will make reading an adventure.
Tan K Huynh (he/his) 🇱🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈@TanKHuynh

Maria Potvin shares how to support bilingual reading at home. This is one way to support multilingualism and the school-home connection. tinyurl.com/4vzn6rdn

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Mimi Potvin
Mimi Potvin@bilingual_lab·
@TanKHuynh Thank you so much, Tan! I’ve had such a great time chatting with you!
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Dr Sabine Little
Dr Sabine Little@sabinelittle·
While #readingforpleasure is trending, a reminder that multilingual pupils may rfp in multiple languages - a great chance to check in with them and show them *all* rfp is welcome - in any language! Here's an idea for how to do this: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Kate Seltzer
Kate Seltzer@kate_anna·
If you’re interested in the intersections of translanguaging, critical multilingual language awareness, & teaching/teacher ed, I hope you’ll read my commentary & ALL the articles in this special issue of @LanguageAwaren1! Check it out: tinyurl.com/yc7bzem6
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Mimi Potvin
Mimi Potvin@bilingual_lab·
@4bilingualism No, because one kid doesn’t speak English at all. But they all used as much Bulgarian as they knew and they taught each other words in English, Dutch and German to enhance communication. Everyone was super receptive to the others’ strongest language
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Mimi Potvin@bilingual_lab·
3 cousins, 4 days and 4 languages. Each kid’s dominant language is different. Guess what happened?
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