In an article in the Independent newspaper in the UK, Caroline Sarll believes that her attempts to raise her daughters bilingually will not go to waste.
Even with a hybrid language of Denglisch, when her girls mix their English and German, doesn't put her off. In other European countries, primary-aged children have four 50-minute lessons of English a week. If only the rest of the country and the education decision-makers believed the same thing.
Read more about why we must lift our children out of linguistic poverty in this story in the Independent Education>>