003: Rita Rosenback | Mother Of Two Adult Bilingual Daughters And Language Expert Shares Her Bilingual Journey

Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast: Raising Multilingual Children, Multicultural Living, Growing Up With Multiple Languages.

On this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we discuss the multilingual journey of a mother of two multilinguals . My special guest is Rita Rosenback. She is a language expert and the founder of a Multilingual Parenting-Bilingual Children. Her main languages are English and Swedish but she also speaks German and Finnish. She’s also writing a book bringing up bilingual children.

Rita Rosenback has outstanding career positions that are closely related to language are the following: translator, interpreter, language teacher, university lecturer and team leader. Her main inspiration for her career and life are her multilingual daughters and as she puts it, without her daughters, there would be no book.

I created this episode to give you a more detailed knowledge on how you can teach your kids to speak more than one language and also finding the balance between that and having a healthy relationship with them. With the help of Rita’s experience as she shares her journey on being a multilingual mom and having the courage to pursue what she’s passionate about — which is speaking and teaching languages.

Rita Rosenback with her daughters Minna and Daniela

In this episode, here’s what we’ll cover:

• what to do when raising bilingual/multilingual children

• learning English at Non-English speaking schools

• dealing with the miscommunication as the family knows how to speak 3 languages

• One parent, One language parenting

• switch from one parent, one language to minority language at home

• how to deal with your kids who hasn’t started speaking yet

• ways to support minority language at home

• impact of being Bilingual to being Bicultural

• advantage of being multilingual in the professional world

• Rita Rosenback’s advice on learning how to speak a language and teaching it to your kids

• Discussion on her new book and what to expect from it

Items mentioned in this episode include:

• Systems that Parents use to raise their Bilingual Kid

• Speaking a Language with an Accent

• How to Foster Children’s Pride in Their Minority Culture and Language

• Rita Rosenback’s Interview with her younger daughter, Daniela

• Pricken – The Swedish Speaking Kitten

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