by the LKTeam | Jul 13, 2022 | British culture, Language, Switzerland, Trilingualism
At the time of writing, today is Monday 20 June, World Refugee Day – so it seems like the perfect moment to tell you a little about our family’s latest adventures in languages and different cultures. Because we thought working full time and raising two wild pre-school...
by the LKTeam | Jul 13, 2019 | Language, Switzerland, Trilingualism
A couple of weeks have passed since my last blog post, and my 15-month old is happily pursuing his insouciant and incessant babbling. Although he had mastered mama and papa (not just the words but the actual concept as well) a few weeks ago, currently everything he...
by the LKTeam | Apr 11, 2019 | Language, Switzerland, Trilingualism
In my previous blog post, I introduced you to the wacky world of raising trilingual children, and since a little time has passed, I wanted to give a little review of how we are currently faring with the OPOL (One Person, One Language) method. For the sake of this...
by the LKTeam | Jan 16, 2019 | British culture, Language, LKT, Switzerland, Trilingualism
Type “trilingual families” in Google today, and you hit about 1,320,000 results (thank you, Google). But growing up as a child in a trilingual family thirty-odd years ago, I am sure that there was not this abundance of research articles, books and blog posts regarding...
by the LKTeam | Jun 30, 2016 | Switzerland, Travel
Being a translator means much more than being able to speak another language. You must be able to demonstrate knowledge of the culture out of which you translate. And that sometimes just involves travelling to and living in that country. All of our translators at LKT...