Once you decide you want to raise your child with more than one language, you might ask yourself a few questions on how to actually go about it. Speaking to a child occasionally is all easy, but embarking on a journey of allowing for (balanced) multilingualism benefits from a language strategy for your own situation.

Fostering a vocabulary-rich language environment that invites creative speech and thought is something to strive for as a parent. Especially if you are raising your child to become bilingual, trilingual or multilingual to any degree, these tips on how open-ended toys help to achieve that language goal get you the confidence boost you might need during times of hesitation.

Access to Brazilian Portuguese children's books can be a challenge if you are a Brazilian expat parent. We are helping out with a list of children's book shops that ship (Brazilian) Portugese children's books internationally. #polh

To me, raising a child with multiple languages is not that much different from raising a child to begin with. However, you have “extra” vectors that are always very present in your life.