In 2022, BCT started a series of Talks on Multilingualism. The first talk was presented by Dr Sabine Little, a German native who has been living in Sheffield and teaching language education for many years. Her bilingual son ended up offering his own relationship to...
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How to manage the impossible: Being a working parent with a sick child
The first year of crèche is a horror. Little people catch every bug going and runny noses never seem to stop. More importantly, they have to stay at home and parents still need to show up at the job that pays for food and shelter. So how do you manage? 1. Call...
BCT Talks Series on Multilingualism: A socio-linguistic perspective
After our popular series of talks on multilingualism last year, we continue with the 2023 edition. Here are a few thoughts and ideas from the first talk of this year. A socio-linguistic perspective on languages: How do euro-centric biases influence our thinking about...
Raising Multilingual Children
Raising children with several languages is a chance and challenge for parents. Our world has become multilingual, and we are ourselves global citizens used to working and socialising in several languages. Letting our children learn languages at an early age is a...
10 things which I do differently after becoming a parent
1) Working hours: I used to spend quite long hours in the office before December 2013. The reasons why I did long hours are not very clearly settled in my brain so I will avoid going into details of that. Apart, probably the fact that, I had more work than normal...