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Cherry Blossoms: Bilingual Update

A walk through the Cherry Blossoms

This video is from a few weeks ago and the cherry blossoms are no longer there, but I am glad we made the most of the short time they blossom on the trees. Yul was sad when all the blossoms had fallen. We are lucky to have many cherry blossoms trees in our area. There are places with a lot more trees that people travel to, but much easier to just take a local walk. This area was also shown in the Korean drama “The Start-up”. They filmed last year during cherry blossom season and we actually saw scenes being shot many times.

This video is also a bit of a bilingual update as you can see Yul using both English and Korean and switching easily between them.

Confused Parents? Raising a bilingual child.

Who is actually confused?

In this video we talk about some myths about bilingualism, in particular the myth that children must be confused if learning more than one language. What we have found is it’s actually us as parents who get the most confused. As an English speaking Australian I have experience with English toddler talk, but Hugh, as a Korean, doesn’t have much experience hearing little children talk. So some things our son Yul says in English make no sense to Hugh, but to me I know it’s just a little kid way of saying something. And it goes the opposite way as well, some Korean things Yul says I either don’t understand or takes me a few moments to realise what he is saying.

We talk about much more in the video as well so please check it out! I hope it’s helpful for other parents in a similar situation as us.

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