Welcome to Multilingual Family Playbook
I give parents proven strategies that turn toddlers into confident speakers of 3+ languages without overwhelm.
Who is this newsletter for?
Multilingual Family Playbook is for:
Mixed families: living in mixed-language households and want to help their children confidently speak both parents' languages, without one language becoming dominant
Expats: raising children abroad and need strategies to maintain their heritage language while ensuring strong development in the local school language
Language-enthusiast parents: wanting to introduce additional languages to their monolingual children early (0-5 years) and are looking for evidence-based methods that work
Who am I?
My name is Magda Sawyer and I am a language enthusiast that is all three of the above mentioned archetypes.
Me and my husband are raising our 2 pre-school aged daughters in Switzerland, famously multilingual country, while being expats speaking 2 different languages. If that wasn’t enough, we decided to introduce our daughters to Mandarin early on (idea of my husband who, being British, doesn’t speak any foreign language!)
For that reasons, our daughters are speaking:
English with dad and Polish with mum at home
Swiss German in the daycare
Mandarin in a Chinese playgroup
Not to mention, they are surrounded by friends and neighbours speaking all sorts of languages.
With all that, they don’t seem to be overwhelmed. Through personal experiences and self-education I have learned a lot about early multilingualism:
language development milestones
strategies to support language development
fun and effective ways to maintain the language
a ton of helpful resources
I feel like there are still way too many myths and worries that parents of multilingual children need to face every day, which is why the goal of this newsletter is to create a science-based resource and support for parents that are on a similar journey and want to support their children to best of their abilities.
