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

Olena Centeno: Mother of 3 Bilingual Children, Ukrainian Living in USA, Multicultural Bloggerbilingualkidsrock.com
Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast is your place to connect with multilingual families, language experts, and passionate authors from around the world. We share actionable tips and motivational stories. Learn from our experiences so your journey raising multilingual children is enjoyable, manageable, and successful.
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034 – Speech Pathologist Mary-Pat O’Malley On Language Development of Bilingual Children

Mary-Pat O’Malley is a Language and Speech Pathologist. She holds a PH degree in Linguistics in Trinity College, Ireland. She is an lecturer, author, researcher and lover of all things to do with speech, language and communications. She has over 20 years of working with families and 14 years experience teaching in the university. Mary-Pat is […]

Apr 15, 201648 min

033: Book Review: “Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability” by Adam Beck

Your browser does not support the audio element. Recently I got myself a copy of Adam’s Beck new book “Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability”. Adam is originally from the USA and now lives with his family in Japan. He runs exceptionally helpful blog Bilingual Monkeys. The day I started to read his book my To Do […]

Mar 20, 2016

032: Why Is It Important To Support The Mother Tongue With Renata Peskova

Your browser does not support the audio element. Renata Emilson Peskova has a doctoral degree in Bayreuth University in Bavaria, Germany. She is the Chair at the Mother Tongue Association on Bilingualism. Renata lives with her German husband in Reykjavik, Iceland and has a bilingual son, Yohan. In this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast: […]

Mar 19, 2016

031: Why Your Bilingual Child Does Not Respond Back In Minority Language

Your browser does not support the audio element. Today’s question is the most popular in my blogging experience. It is been asked by so many parents of different languages, family circumstances and kids’ ages. But the core of the question remains the same: Why my bilingual child does not respond back in minority language. It […]

Mar 09, 2016

030: How to lead by example when raising bilingual children with Mandie Davis

Your browser does not support the audio element. Mandie Davis is the founder of Les Puces Ltd. early years classes. Les Puces is a pre-school group teaching French in a natural and accessible way. She has two daughters, Willow who is bilingual and India who is trilingual. They both learned French and German by living in […]

Dec 11, 2015

028: How To Overcome Fear When Learning Languages? With Ksenija Popac

Ksenija Popac is the founder of School Placement Consuting and University Study Consulting. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature, from the University of Belgrade, and Language, from the College of New Jersey. She is an experienced educational consultant and educator who has been living and working internationally for over twenty years. Her […]

Oct 22, 201552 min

026: How A Parent Can Stick To Speaking Heritage Language

Today’s question came from a reader who speaks Arabic to her kids. She writes: My biggest problem is that I forget to speak my native language! I am so fluent in English, and surrounded by it so much all the time, that I keep slipping back into it without even noticing! The first year I […]

Oct 10, 201514 min

025: Late Bilingual Talker

In today’s episode I am answering the question that came from our reader Carol. She writes: Hi, I have a 21 month old baby girl, and she says almost nothing. Some people say that she is late, but I want to think that is because she is hearing two languages. Is it normal that she […]

Oct 08, 2015

023: Ryan Cole | The Founder of Little Lexicon About Raising Two Sons With English and Czech

Ryan Cole is an American living in Prague, Czech Republic with his Czech wife and two American-Czech boys. He’s the founder of the app, Little Lexicon. Little Lexicon is a website that lets your translate and share your bilingual toddler’s vocabulary with friends and family. Ryan created the app after his first child, Oliver started talking. He realized […]

Mar 10, 201536 min

022: Tim Johnson On How Dual Language Books Can Help Learn A New Language

Today’s guest is very interesting because it’s the first time that we have an author of children’s books. You might even have heard about the book – The Adventures of Bosley the Language Bear. The series of the cute bear and his adventures on the different languages. The author of this book is Tim Johnson. Unlike […]

Nov 05, 201429 min

021: Michele Cherie | How Non-Native Speakers Can Raise Their Kids Bilingual

My guest in this podcast episode is Michele Cherie and she’s the founder of Intentional Mama. She writes about making purposeful choices for culturally-rich, perfectly paced family life–with a French twist. Michele is a former French teacher who is now dedicated to raising her two children and she’s also a non native speaker who speaks […]

Oct 28, 201453 min

020: Yulia Carson | Great Advice For Expat Families

Yulia Carson is a multicultural trainer and she specializes in working with expat families. She relocated from Moscow, Russia to Chicago, Illinois 14 years ago. She studied History in Cultural Anthropology both in Russia and the USA – this led her to pursue the career. I get a lot of questions from people who email […]

Oct 09, 201452 min

019: Meet Monica Bravo Granström | Multilingual Mom | Author | Scholar | Chief Editor and Language Activist!

Monica Bravo Granström, (MonicaBG.com) is a Swede living in Germany with her Spanish husband and two multilingual children. Besides of being an academic at the University of Education in Weingarten, she also works voluntary in many ways for multilingualism, e.g. writing for Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt. She is also the Chief Editor of Magasinet SMUL. Monica has […]

Aug 04, 201458 min

018: Meet Amanda | “Miss Panda Chinese”!

Amanda Hsiung Blodgett is the founder of Miss Panda Chinese, Miss Panda Chinese helps children everywhere learn Mandarin Chinese in a fun and engaging way by presenting kids songs and stories in Chinese that are easy to learn and fun to listen to. Amanda is a Mandarin Chinese instructor and the mother of two young bilingual children. […]

Jul 14, 201459 min

017: Leanna Guillen Mora | The Language Story of The Creative Mom

Leanna Guillen Mora is the founder of Multicultural Kid Blogs and Baha’i Mom Blogs. She also blogs about embracing the madness of motherhood at All Done Monkey. She is a stay at home mom to her 4 year old son and his baby brother. She and her husband, who is from Costa Rica, are raising […]

Jun 27, 201443 min

015: Jonathan Ervine | Father’s Perspective On Language Acquisition

Jonathan Ervine – is the creator of Dad’s the way I like it – a website on what it means to be a dad and how dads are represented in the society. He resides in North West Wales with his wife, son and pet chicken. He is also a lecturer of French at Bangor University. He can […]

Jun 04, 201441 min

014: Anna Vinogradova | Multicultural Kitchen As A Way To Learn Languages

Anna Vinogradova is the founder of Multicultural Kitchen ( A blog about food, cultures and languages – the connecting point between Anna and her husband as they love to cook and eat a lot). She is a Russian mom, her husband is Spanish and they raising their California-born daughter together. Anna is using One Parent, […]

May 28, 201427 min

013: Becky Morales | Four Cultures Family | They Are Truly Global Citizens

Becky Morales is the creator of Kid World Citizen – offering activities that help young minds go global. She is an ESL teacher with a passion for multi-language education and traveling around the world. Becky and her husband, Antonio are the proud parents of four kids – two by adoption (Chinese and Ethiopian descent). Her […]

May 20, 201457 min

012: Interview With Olga Mecking | European Mama

Olga Mecking is the founder of European Mama – a blog that focuses on expat life and raising trilingual children. Olga blogs about her experiences on her site and sometimes contribute articles to other websites as well. She is a Polish mother living in the Netherlands with her German husband and three children. She also works as […]

May 05, 201449 min

010: Tatyana Leskowicz | How To Encourage Your Toddler to Speak Your Language

On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock podcast, we talk with Tatyana Leskowicz. Tatyana is a U.S. resident who was born from Russian parents. She can speak Russian, English and a little bit of Swedish after her short stays in Sweden and Israel. Tatyana is married to an American and they have two daughters (ages 4 […]

Apr 10, 201454 min

009: Childhood Bilingual Andrei Semenov Shares His Language Story

In this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we talk with Andrei Semenov. He is from Russia but he grew up in Colorado, USA. We talk about Andrei’s family portrait, how he came to America, how he learned to speak English and Russian while growing up. The ways he learned more about cultural differences and […]

Apr 02, 201427 min

008: Lina Dickson About Beauty of Chinese and Bilingual Living

On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we talk with Lina Dickson. She’s the founder of Best4Future blog, a blog created to record Lina’s efforts to teach Chinese to her daughters and a journey to look for fun and effective ways to bring up children bilingual. Lina Dickson graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in […]

Mar 26, 201452 min

006: Annabelle Humanes: One Family – Four Languages. How?

On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we talk with Annabelle Humanes, founder of the blog – Piri-Piri Lexicon. She’s a French language researcher married to a Portuguese and they reside in Germany with their daughter, LJ. They speak 4 languages at a daily basis and their aim is to raise their daughter to […]

Mar 04, 201446 min
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