037: Addressing common misconceptions about multilinguals with Madalena Cruz-Ferreira

Bilingual Avenue with Marianna Du Bosq - Ein Podcast von Interviews with experts and parents sharing best practices for raising and teaching bilingual children.

On this episode, Madalena Cruz-Ferreira talks bout some common misconceptions about multilinguals.  Specifically, we discuss the following myths: Multilinguals can learn languages easily, but only in childhood; Multilinguals don’t have many languages, they have many half-languages; Mulitlingualism should be encouraged but only in languages that matter; Multilinguals are multilinguals because they are gifted for languages.    

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