http://speakingintonguesfilm.info The official website for Speaking in Tongues a documentary film Sun, 06 May 2012 00:12:30 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://speakingintonguesfilm.info/learn-more/about-the-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-8863 Raising Bilingual Children | The Langar Hall Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:32:58 +0000 http://speakingintonguesfilm.info/?page_id=330#comment-8863 [...] Our idea in making Speaking in Tongues was to showcase a world where these communication barriers are being addressed. An African-American boy from public housing learns to read, write, and speak Mandarin. A Mexican-American boy, whose parents are not literate in any language, develops professional-level Spanish while mastering English. A Chinese-American girl regains her grandparents’ mother tongue—a language her parents lost through assimilation. A Caucasian teen travels to Beijing to stay with a Mandarin speaking host family. Their stories reveal the promise of a multilingual America. Each kid’s world opens up when they start learning two languages on the first day of kindergarten; each is developing both bicultural and bilingual fluency. [link] [...] [...] Our idea in making Speaking in Tongues was to showcase a world where these communication barriers are being addressed. An African-American boy from public housing learns to read, write, and speak Mandarin. A Mexican-American boy, whose parents are not literate in any language, develops professional-level Spanish while mastering English. A Chinese-American girl regains her grandparents’ mother tongue—a language her parents lost through assimilation. A Caucasian teen travels to Beijing to stay with a Mandarin speaking host family. Their stories reveal the promise of a multilingual America. Each kid’s world opens up when they start learning two languages on the first day of kindergarten; each is developing both bicultural and bilingual fluency. [link] [...]

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