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 speak English, Welsh and French, though he is not a native Welsh speaker. We talk about his family language portrait, how he became bilingual and speaking Welsh. We also talk about raising his son bilingual, what system of bilingual learning do they use and the challenges of speaking a non-native language to their son. In this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock podcast: 00:30 Introduction to bilingual parents connect 2:13 Introduction to Jonathan Ervine – founder of Dad’s the way I like it 2:58 Discussing Welsh and Scottish language 3:57 Jonathan’s bilingual story and career 5:09 Reasons to raise his kids bilingual (particularly in Welsh) 6:34 Difference between the north and south Welsh language 7:40 Who speaks the Welsh and English to their kid? The system they use to raise their kid 8:58 Ways on learning a non-native language and speaking it to your child 12:00 Discussing the durability of speaking Welsh 16:19 Signs of understanding for both languages for Jonathan’s son 17:49 Challenge of speaking Welsh to his son 20:39 Minority Language: Welsh or English? 22:53 Literacy in Welsh language and schools 26:00 Exposing his son to speaking French 26:43 Living in France 28:52 Challenges of raising a bilingual child 30:17 Football or Soccer – and its relation to podcast 32:00 Running a podcast in Welsh 33:01 Advice for parents looking to raise a bilingual child 39:37 Closing remarks Items mentioned in this Episode: Bilingual Parents Connect Being a parent in Wales Was this information useful? Don’t you wish you would have found it sooner? Well to help other parents find Bilingual Kids Rock and spread our positive message – please

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015: Jonathan Ervine Father’s Perspective On Language Acquisition 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 41:06 long.

This episode was published on Jun 4, 2014.

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