Multilingual families and identities with Florence Rozensztajn | Ep. #7

Abundate: Learning a language is not what you think

Do you want your family to be bilingual? Hedvig speaks with Flo Rozensztajn about why it was important to her that her children could communicate in multiple languages, how she turned a home project into a business to help other French-English bilingual families, whether it is actually more difficult to raise children bilingually, and we also touch upon some of the complexities of multilingual and multicultural identities.For the full show notes including more guest information and links, vis...

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1. Introducing Florence Rozensztajn (00:00:00)

2. Growing up French-Lao in France (00:03:19)

3. Moving to Switzerland & working in another language (00:05:21)

4. Starting a bilingual family in the UK (00:07:07)

5. How Flo turned the need for more bilingual materials into a business (00:08:49)

6. Is it harder to raise children bilingually than monolingually? (00:11:32)

7. The experience of growing up bilingually ourselves (00:15:52)

8. How to reconnect your different identities (00:18:51)

9. Where to find Sweet Pamplemousse and SengFlo Designs (00:24:01)

10. Questions and reflections (00:25:48)