007: Cordelia Newlin De Rojas | Founder Of Multilingual Mama Shares Her Tips On Bilingual Parenting and homeschooling

Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast: Raising Multilingual Children, Multicultural Living, Growing Up With Multiple Languages.

On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we talk with Cordelia Newlin De Rojas. She is the founder of the blog, Multilingual Mama. Cordelia is a Franco-American mother of two girls, Pacifique and Claude. Both of her daughters were born in different countries – Pacifique (New York) and Claude (Singapore). She lives in Thailand with her daughters and her husband, who’s a Mexican.

We discuss how she was raised in a bilingual family, what she learned from traveling from a Western country to Southeast Asia, how she’s raising her daughters bilingual and her decision on homeschooling.

In this episode, here’s what we’ll cover:

• 00:30 Introduction to Cordelia and her blog, Multilingual Mama

• 1:30 Cordelia’s Family Language Portrait

• 3:55 Growing up in a Bilingual Family – Pros and Cons

• 7:00 What you can learn from traveling

• 7:56 Refusing to speak French when Cordelia was a kid

• 9:00 Learning how to speak French and studying in a French school

• 12:00 Learning Spanish and the challenges Cordelia encountered

• 15:11 Family Language Portrait and Language System she uses to teach her kids

• 22:40 Homeschooling: Reasons behind the decision

• 33:20 Challenges and Drawbacks of Homeschooling

• 34:20 Cordelia’s thoughts on homeschool language learning

• 37:00 Cordelia’s tips on raising Bilingual Kids

• 39:16 Discussing when a spouse is not fluent in the minority language

• 49:10 Cordelia’s advice for parents on kids precious first words – delayed language speaking

• 55:00 Second Sibling Syndrome

• 57:00 Majority Language Public Talking

Items Mentioned in this Episode:

Homeschooling on a Budget

Speech Development: Keep Calm, Your Toddler will Talk

Puppets as Linguistic Catalysts

Raising Multilingual Children

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