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Growing Up with Two Languages: A Practical Guide | 
 enlarge | Authors: Una Cunningham-andersson, Staffan Andersson
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 84061
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Pages: 184
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0415333326
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.446
EAN: 9780415333320
ASIN: 0415333326
Publication Date: February 26, 2004
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 good, but didn't meet my needs April 18, 2003
46 out of 49 found this review helpful
This is a really good book if you're an English speaker, living in a country where English isn't spoken at all. There are lots of really interesting case studies and examples of how families cope with bilingualism.
However, it didn't meet my needs - we are a family living in Wales, where one parent speaks English as a first language, and the other speaks Welsh as a first language. Our situation may not be commonplace, but I didn't find the help I was looking for in this book.
I found Colin Baker's book 'A Parent's and Teacher's guide to bilingualism' met our needs more fully.
Some really good resources and web-site addresses though.
A good introduction to the topic of biligualism September 29, 2001
39 out of 40 found this review helpful
Good points: easy to read with many useful suggestions. Very up to date with a number of useful web site addresses.Bad points: possibly a bit too simplistic and very general. More focused on families where English is the minority language. I found 'The Biligual Family'by Harding and Riley more useful but it is more academic and has slightly different goals from this book.
 A good book to buy January 7, 2001
andrea.luciano@icteam.it (Treviglio (BG), Italy)
9 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book is very good. I needed something that could give me examples of growing up children with two languages. The only thing that I had found before where negative answers. Here the authours talks about their experience and also about possibilities of different ways both in negative and positive matters. There are also lots of comments from another bilingual families. Their family is Swedish/English living in Sweden, where people understand English, instead mine is Icelandic/Italian one living in Italy. Where people actually say that are you bothering using Icelandic. I didn't find lots of hints for us which have a minor languages just spooken by one person without dialogues except the kids.
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