Customer Reviews
good, but didn't meet my needs - By: , 18 Apr 2003 
This is a really good book if you're an English speaker, livingin a country where English isn't spoken at all. There are lots of really interesting case studies & examples of how families cope with bilingualism.
However, it didn't meet my needs - we are a family livingin Wales, where one parent speaks English as a first language, & the other speaks Welsh as a first language. Our situation may not be commonplace, but I didn't find the help I was looking forin this book.
I found Colin Baker's book 'A Parent's & Teacher's guide to bilingualism' met our needs more fully.
Some really good resources & web-site addresses though.
A good introduction to the topic of biligualism - By: , 29 Sep 2001 Good points: easy to read with many useful suggestions. Very up to date with a number of useful web site addresses.
Bad points: possibly a bit too simplistic & very general. More focused on families where English is the minority language.
I found 'The Biligual Family'by Harding & Riley more useful but it is more academic & has slightly different goals from this book.
A good book to buy - By: andrea.luciano@icteam.it, 07 Jan 2001 
This book is very good. I needed something that could give me examples of growing up children with two languages. The only thing that I had found before where negative answers. Here the authours talks about their experience & also about possibilities of different ways bothin negative & positive matters. There are also lots of comments from another bilingual families. Their family is Swedish/English livingin Sweden, where people understand English, instead mine is Icelandic/Italian one livingin Italy. Where people actually say that are you bothering using Icelandic. I didn't find lots of hints for us which have a minor languages just spooken by one person without dialogues except the kids.
