Translating Citizen Media for the World What is it? “Global Voices is a community of more than 700 authors and 600 translators around the world who work together to bring you reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard i

Using Illustrated Books as a Learning Tool A few years ago I was at a boutique shop in the Kensington Market area of Toronto. There was a book section and I was excited to see some Spanish language books. I randomly pulled an illustrated Spanish version of the Odyssey off the shelf  &

The World of Barbapapa I came across Barbapapa at World Kids Books in International Village just before I wrote my first post about Books for Bilingual Children. I went in looking to buy a book for my daughter in French, and Barbapapa by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor caught my intere

Authentic Cultural Materials for Spanish Teachers and Learners What is it? Zambombazo is a self-described “explosion of language and culture”. It is a website which offers hundreds of activities for Spanish learners and teachers that are based on authentic cultural materia

Why everyone should read this book I’ve never been the biggest fan of graphic novels, but a while back I picked up a bilingual copy of Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, and I’ve been totally enamored with it ever since. Why learners of Chinese should pick it up The bilingual ver

Reading in Second Language to Achieve Bilingual Goals Books, like music, in your child’s second language are great resources to support your bilingual action plan . And  my 4 year old, like most children, loves all books. My wife attended a program with the Canucks Family Educat

Nostalgia and life lessons in learning to read Chinese Mary Leighton’s post earlier this week about feeling like a child when learning a language made me reflect on my own return to childhood through my learning of Chinese. One challenge of being a kid again linguistically is finding