Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq

This episode provides practical tips for parents on how to incorporate vocabulary learning while flying with children, focusing on bilingual education strategies.

This episode shares a practical trick for busy parents to increase their bilingual children's exposure to a target language by narrating daily activities throughout the day.

This episode provides five easy tips for teaching children Spanish, with strategies applicable to any target language, aimed at parents raising bilingual kids.

This episode promotes a language plan course from the Bilingual Avenue Members Club, offering step-by-step guidance and community support for families raising bilingual children.

This episode features a consulting call with Angelica Engelman, discussing her Mexican-American family background and contrasting language experiences to explore strategies for teaching complex vocabulary to bilingual children.

This episode features an interview with Diana Sampedro, author of 'Baby English', discussing her experience as a non-native English speaker raising her daughter bilingually in Spain.

This Q&A episode addresses whether parents should drop a language when their bilingual child has a speech delay, offering expert guidance and support for multilingual families.

This episode is part of a mini-series on raising bilingual children, focusing on key elements like exposure and need, based on listener questions and expert insights.

This episode discusses why parents should avoid bribing their bilingual children to speak the target language, highlighting its negative long-term effects and underlying messages.

This episode is part of a mini-series on raising bilingual children, focusing on establishing a language policy for families and offering support through a membership community.

This episode focuses on helping parents develop a plan to teach literacy in a target language, specifically Spanish, to their bilingual children.

This episode provides recommendations for eight toys to help parents teach Spanish to their babies and young children through fun, play-based interactions.

This episode explores why bilingual children might understand but not speak a target language, focusing on increasing exposure as a key solution.

This episode features a consulting call with Bruna, a heritage Italian speaker and ESOL teacher, discussing her family's journey raising a bilingual daughter and adjusting to language conditions.

The host introduces a survey to gather listener feedback for tailoring future content and recommends previous episodes for bilingual parenting tips.

This episode promotes a limited-time course from the Bilingual Avenue Members Club that helps parents create an effective family language plan for raising bilingual children.

This episode provides five easy strategies for teaching Spanish to preschoolers, with tips applicable to any language, focusing on engaging young learners during this eager developmental stage.

The host shares her personal language story and insights from a conference segment about storytelling and audience engagement for content creators.

This episode features a consulting call with Vanessa, a founding member of the Bilingual Avenue community, discussing her journey raising three bilingual children in Spanish while living in an English-dominant community near Chicago.

This milestone 150th episode of the Bilingual Avenue Podcast features host Mariana Dubas reflecting on past episodes and celebrating with a special edition focused on raising bilingual children.

This episode provides 18 easy tips and strategies for boosting vocabulary and grammar in children's target language, with a special focus on holiday-themed activities that can be applied year-round.

This Q&A episode provides six practical tips for feeling more natural when speaking a target language, with a focus on leveraging holiday themes to enhance bilingual learning for children.

This episode features an interview with Aileen Passariello-McAleer about her experiences as a non-native speaker navigating bilingual parenting and her creation of the MamaLingua app to support others.

This episode of the Bilingual Avenue Podcast addresses a listener's question about creating a bilingual audiobook for children, offering practical guidance and community support for parents raising multilingual kids.

This episode features a consulting call with Wendy, a parent discussing her bilingual family background and the challenges of choosing the right school for her Spanish-speaking three-year-old son.

This episode addresses common questions and challenges in raising bilingual children, featuring insights from the host's experiences and the Bilingual Avenue Members Club community.

This episode concludes a three-part series on helping bilingual children transition from passive understanding to active speaking in the target language, focusing on creating a need for language use.

This episode provides three practical games for parents to play with their bilingual children to enhance language learning through natural interaction.

This episode promotes a language plan course for parents raising bilingual children, offering step-by-step guidance and community support.

This episode features a consulting call with Amber Money, discussing her journey and strategies for raising a bilingual child, focusing on her experience as a non-native Spanish speaker and educator.

This episode features an interview with 123Andres, a Latin Grammy-winning children's musician, discussing how music can help teach bilingualism to kids.

This episode features a consulting call with Christabel Clark, a member of the Bilingual Avenue community, discussing her personal journey and strategies for proactively supporting language learning at home with her family in Australia.

This episode discusses five fun and easy ways to celebrate the bilingual journey with children, emphasizing enjoyment and bonding over language learning challenges.

This episode provides practical advice on organizing bilingual playdates to support children's language development and social-emotional skills, even when other speakers of the target language aren't readily available in the community.

This episode addresses a listener's question about creating a language plan for raising bilingual children, emphasizing the importance of setting goals and developing a structured approach to support multilingual development in families.

This episode features an interview with Amy Helfand about her experiences and insights on raising a bilingual child as a single parent using the One Parent, One Language method.

This episode promotes a limited-time offer to access a language plan course from the Bilingual Avenue Members Club, designed to help families create effective strategies for raising bilingual children.

This episode features a consulting call with bilingual parents Abner and Laura Solano, discussing their family's language journey and challenges in raising multilingual children in Washington State.

This episode features an interview with Jennifer Langkjaer, founder of Parenting Abroad, discussing her experiences raising bilingual children while living in Switzerland and temporarily in Houston, Texas.

This episode features a consulting call with Amy Liermann, a new mother discussing how to start raising her eight-week-old son as bilingual, drawing from her Spanish major background and travel experiences.

This episode features an interview with Nicole Schwartz, a parent coach and author, discussing positive parenting strategies for families raising bilingual children.

This episode focuses on practical strategies and favorite toys for teaching Spanish to toddlers in an engaging way.

This episode provides guidance on introducing chapter books to bilingual children, building on a previous discussion about transitioning to more complex texts.

This episode addresses common parental concerns about whether bilingual children experience confusion when learning multiple languages, explaining that confusion is not typical and exploring related behaviors and theories.

This episode introduces a three-part series on helping bilingual children transition from passive understanding to active speaking in their target language, offering diagnostic tools for parents.

This episode focuses on practical strategies for teaching Spanish to elementary school-age children as part of raising bilingual kids, building on previous episodes about younger age groups.

This episode introduces a limited-time offer for a language plan course designed to help parents create effective strategies for raising bilingual children, featuring video lessons, workbooks, and community support.

Marianna Du Bosq hosts a consulting call with Conchi Manresa, a member from Spain who shares her experience starting to speak English with her children later in their development.

This episode features an interview with Kirsten Cable, a language expert who discusses her philosophy that language learning is for everyone and offers practical tips for non-native speakers.

In this episode, host Mariana Du Bosq addresses common myths and misconceptions about raising bilingual children, aiming to clarify truths and alleviate parental concerns.

Mariana Dubosk talks with Adam Beck, the Bilingual Monkeys blogger and author of Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability, about raising Japanese-English children in Hiroshima.

["Alice, who learned Spanish through a 1992 trip to El Salvador, college study, and Peace Corps service in Guatemala, asks how to raise Ayla bilingually at home.", "Mariana Dubosk recommends I Spy, container play, memory games, and realistic pretend play for a child who is almost two and entering a vocabulary explosion.", "The TV section cites research that background television reduces conversation, then shows how age-appropriate Spanish TV and closed captions work better when adults talk through the show.", "The close focuses on concrete goals, a language plan, and Alice's idea of a Spanish-speaking mother's helper to create more daily need for Spanish."]

Elena Centeno says she moved from Ukraine to Wisconsin with an English-speaking husband, four children, and a home language mix of Russian, Ukrainian, and English.

Lorraine Ladish describes how her Spanish father moved her from Pennsylvania to Spain and switched their conversations to English when she was about six.

Kimberly Scanlon, a speech-language pathologist and author of My Toddler Talks, explains how 25 daily routines can build toddler communication through play and repetition.