Across the world, multilingual families are navigating rapidly changing linguistic landscapes. Children grow up in multicultural societies, in homes where several languages coexist, and in classrooms that reflect a global mosaic.
When you raise your children away from your homeland, you quickly realize that the task is not only to keep a language alive. For many of us, it is about passing on a whole world of feelings and identity.
When we talk about multilingualism, we often talk in theories: about language acquisition, critical periods, language input, or cognitive benefits.
But what does it really mean to live across languages, to raise children who call more than one language “home” – or sometimes, none at all?
This is an interview with a young student, Lambrini Papachristodoulou, whose documentary about a disappearing language, Arvanitika, emphasises the importance of maintaining dialects to safeguard cultural wealth.
On this page we share Greek resources that help families maintain Greek whilst living abroad. It is an ongoing list that we are always happy to update!