Our ml home on the Web

I came to blogging a bit by accident, with the eagerness to share my own experience and help other bilingual parents the way I had been helped in my most challenging times on this bilingual journey.

The blogging experience has made me discover a wonderful blogging community, some members of which have honoured me referencing this blog, requesting guest posts, interviews or even regular contributions for their own blogs.  These are a different writing experience that enables you to take some retrospective on your experience and is both enriching for the author but also (hopefully) for readers facing similar situations.

Should you be curious to read these pieces, here they are listed with their links to my fellow bloggers’ websites:

References:

• 🇬🇧Bilingual Connect Club – Referenced as member on December 8th 2020
• 🇬🇧10 Ways to Boost Your Minority Language This Summer – Posted on July 5th, 2018 on Multicultural Kid Blogs by blogger Abbi Gutierrez, British mum in the UK raising her children in Spanish.

Guest Posts:

• 🇬🇧 Bilingual Families and Limiting the Influence of the Majority Language – Posted on February 8th, 2017 on Bilingual Monkeys.  This blog in English is run by Adam Beck, the author of the book I consider as my bible book on this bilingual journey: “Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability: Ideas and inspiration for even greater success and joy raising bilingual kids”
• 🇪🇸 Read with Biff, Chip & Kipper – Enseñar a leer en inglés – Posted on January 28th, 2019 on Spanglish Easy. This blog in Spanish is run by Raquel Aliste, a Spanish teacher living in the UK who helps Spanglish families with bilingual education. 
• 🇬🇧What does it take to raise bilingual when you are a non-native parent? – Posted on May 4th, 2019 on TheMultilingualHome.com. This blog in English is run by Adrienne Hayes, an American mum living in France, where she shares her experience as a multilingual family of 3 kids and 6 languages.
• 🇬🇧 How do you start raising bilingual when you are a non-native speaker?  (Part 1)– Posted on July 8th, 2020 on BiliKids.de. This blog in English, Spanish and German is run by Rebeca Imberg, a Costa Rican linguist family language policy professional living in Germany, and mum to a bilingual daughter

Interviews:

• 🇬🇧 Adjusting your family language strategy – Posted on December 10th, 2018 on AnaElisaMiranda.com.  This blog in English is run by Ana Elisa Miranda, a teacher specialising in bilingual literacy. 
• 🇬🇧🇫🇷 “Multilingual Family Interview | Amy in France” – Posted on April 7th, 2019 on TheMultilingualHome.com. This blog in English is run by Adrienne Hayes, an American mum living in France, where she shares her experience as a multilingual family of 3 kids and 6 languages. 
• 🇬🇧 “The Spanglish Embassy”: Creating an Immersive Minority Language Environment” – Posted on April 28th, 2019 on Bilingual-Babies.com.  This blog in English is run by Veronika Laughlin, a German linguist living in the US, sharing her insight on bilingualism as a professional and as a bilingual mum.
• 🇬🇧 “Bilingual Success Stories Around the World”: Virtual Book Launch – Posted on September 28^th, 2021 on Bilingual Monkeys’ Youtube Channel.  I had the honour of taking part on Adam Beck’s latest book along with 25 other families raising bilingual children.  This virtual launch of the book enabled some of these families to meet virtually for the first time and to share their experience.
• 🇬🇧 Interview with Amy of the Our mL Home Blog | Raising Bilingual Children (Part 1) – Posted on November 23^rd, 2021 on Live Your Language’s Youtube Channel.   This vlog in English is run by Stefanie, who shares her experience as a mother raising bilingual her children in her non-native language.
• 🇬🇧 Interview with Amy of the Our mL Home Blog | Raising Bilingual Children (Part 2) – Posted on December 17^th 2021 on Live Your Language’s Youtube Channel.   Continuation of the previous interview with the lovely Stefanie.

Podcasts:

• 🇪🇸“224-Entrevista a Amy @amy_ourmlhome” – Posted on October 1^st, 2020 on Crecereningles.com.  This podcast in Spanish is run by Alex PerDel, a Spanish dad who raises his sons in English.  Alex is passionate about raising bilingual as a non-native parent and shares about his experience, that of others, bilingualism and his services in his weekly podcasts.
• 🇬🇧“Don’t give up! Interview with Amy” – Posted on October 30th 2020 on The Future is Bilingual. This podcast in English is produced by Heather Koziol, a plurilingual American mum raising her 2 children in Polish as a non-native.
• 🇫🇷“Mini podcast” – Posted on June 15th 2021 on the Instagram account of Mini Bilingue. This account is super enlightening as to bilingualism and is ran by Julia, a Swiss-Canadian linguist, who shares the testimonies of bilingual families in her mini podcasts.

Regular contributions:

• 🇪🇸As of May 2020, I will be contributing on a monthly basis to the blog of the SpanglishEasy.com website, run by my lovely bilingual blogger sidekick, Raquel. 🙌

Please make sure you have a browse of these wonderful blogs that are full of useful tips and inspiring experiences for our bilingual families!