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, One Language (OPOL) system. We talk about how she became a bilingual (learning English at a young age) and her family language portrait. What are her reasons for raising her daughter bilingual, why do they use food as a way to expose their daughter to the different cultures, the challenging thing about raising a bilingual kid and where does she get the support for minority language. In this episode, here’s what we’ll cover: 00:30 Introduction to bilingual parents connect 2:10 Intro to Anna Vinogradova – founder of multicultural kitchen 2:47 Learning about Anna’s bilingual story 5:45 Family language portrait – what language does she speak to her husband 7:25 Anna’s personal reasons for raising her daughter bilingual 9:39 Passing the culture to her daughter through food 12:05 Exposing her daughter to Spanish culture and dancing 14:15 What other cultural features she plans to pass on her daughter 16:10 How strong is her minority language support and community 18:00 Most challenging thing about raising a trilingual child 21:00 Benefits of knowing how to speak several more languages 23:50 Anna’s advice on parents who are looking or already raising a bilingual child 26:17 Closing remarks Items mentioned in this Episode: Bilingual Parents Connect

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014: Anna Vinogradova Multicultural Kitchen As A Way To Learn Languages is an episode from Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast: Raising Multilingual Children, Multicultural Living, Growing Up With Multiple Languages. by Olena Centeno: Mother of 3 Bilingual Children, Ukrainian Living in USA, Multicultural Blogger.

This episode is 27:20 long.

This episode was published on May 28, 2014.

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