Raising bilingual and/or multilingual children in Australia

If you’re in Australia and you’re trying to raise children to be truly bilingual or multilingual, you might think this will have purely by osmosis but this is rarely the case. In most instances, for children to acquire similar competency in the community language as they will eventually have in the dominant language (English, in this instance) it requires a consistent and intentional approach on behalf of the parents. Here I talk about some of the approaches you might consider trying on the long journey of raising children to be bilingual and multilingual.