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Parenting: How do you bring up a multilingual child with a minority language?

We discuss the challenges and rewards of raising a multilingual child.

How do you raise multilingual children? And what happens when your first language isn't very common where you live? Language is one of the things that can help you stay connected to your heritage but raising a child to speak two or more languages can be harder than it sounds. We hear from two Nigerian mums: one who speaks Igala and the other Yoruba.

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