
How to Create a Heritage Language Playgroup
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 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.
As the school year wraps up, many parents feel a mix of pride, relief, and exhaustion. But if you’re raising multilingual children abroad, this moment carries an extra layer, one that often goes unnoticed.

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?