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Foreign language books for kids on Amazon

famigliagonzalez — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:34:30 +0000

I was pleasantly suprised recently when I realized that Amazon carries a small selection of foreign language books for kids — and I’m not talking just Spanish: they have Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and a catch-all “general” categories that includes some Tagalog, Slovak, and Irish to name a few.

In case the link doesn’t work anymore, the books are listed in the category “Children’s Books > Educational > Multilingual”

Bookmarks: multilingual resources

famigliagonzalez — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:56:34 +0000

Problem: three kids => mom always in a hurry => sometimes can’t write a full entry for the good sites I find.

Quick fix: my del.icio.us bookmarks for multilingual resources online

Bilingual books at Language Lizard

famigliagonzalez — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:04:28 +0000

Language Lizard offers children books in 40 different languages — a record, as far as I know. Not all titles are available in all languages, but it’s a start. They also have some interesting maps and posters. On their site you will find books in [deep breath]: Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Mandarin, Nepali, Panjabi, Patois, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Shona, Slovakian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh and Yoruba.

Full disclosure: We participate in the Language Lizard affiliate program, but that’s because we like their books!

The best site for multilingual families

famigliagonzalez — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:39:30 +0000

*Hands down* my favorite website on raising multilingual families is the BBFN (Bilingual / Bicultural Family Network). As a matter of fact they have so much great info that I can’t even keep up with it all! I keep telling myself that one day I’ll sit down and read (or at least print) everything on this site. Right. Pigs will fly that day, too.