BILINGUAL SUCCESS STORIES AROUND THE WORLD
Aug 9, 2021 14:24:52 GMT 9
Post by Adam Beck on Aug 9, 2021 14:24:52 GMT 9
At long last, after three years of work, my new book has been published! I'm thrilled with how it turned out and I'd love for you to read it!
Bilingual Success Stories Around the World: Parents Raising Multilingual Kids Share Their Experiences and Encouragement is a real-life roadmap to greater success and joy for any parent raising bilingual or multilingual children. Written by Adam Beck, in the same empowering spirit as his influential first book Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability, this practical, worldly-wise guide features the success stories of a wide range of families and details the kinds of attitudes and actions that can enable your family to enjoy the same sort of rewarding success. The focus of this book is on the actual practice of raising children to acquire active ability in more than one language, conveyed through the revealing experiences of parents who are now succeeding admirably at their bilingual or multilingual aim. Read this book for ideas and inspiration to help you realize your own family's joyful success story!
Bilingual Success Stories Around the World is 252 reader-friendly pages and is available worldwide, in both paperback and Kindle e-book, at Amazon, the global Amazon sites, and other booksellers.
Bilingual Success Stories Around the World is 252 reader-friendly pages and is available worldwide, in both paperback and Kindle e-book, at Amazon, the global Amazon sites, and other booksellers.
From the Foreword by Dr. Annick De Houwer, Director of HaBilNet
"The engaging book you're about to read focuses on parents who are successfully raising children who are fluent in a minority language spoken at home. The book tells the stories of 26 families from across the globe, from China through Poland to California, representing scores of minority languages, from Mongolian in Denmark to Hindi in the United States. The stories tell of dedication, effort, perseverance, and love—love for minority languages, and, above all, for the children who speak them."
"The engaging book you're about to read focuses on parents who are successfully raising children who are fluent in a minority language spoken at home. The book tells the stories of 26 families from across the globe, from China through Poland to California, representing scores of minority languages, from Mongolian in Denmark to Hindi in the United States. The stories tell of dedication, effort, perseverance, and love—love for minority languages, and, above all, for the children who speak them."
From early 5-star reviews at Amazon
"This fascinating book will show you that there are many successful ways to gift children with multiple languages from infancy. Whatever your situation and language experience, there is probably a path that you can follow to successfully foster bilingualism in your family. Determination is perhaps the only common trait of the many families interviewed by expert author Adam Beck. A great resource to gain confidence in your own bilingual journey."
"I would strongly recommend this book to any parent raising multilingual kids - or those thinking of trying. Read it and be encouraged! The stories are carefully curated so that, whatever your situation, you will find something to inspire you. One extra language or many, different ages of children, native or non-native speaker of the target language, it’s all here with a “you can do it too” tone. I was personally encouraged by the repeated refrain that it doesn’t have to be perfect - and it can always be fun."
"What a great source of support and encouragement for families like mine, trying to raise multilingual children! When anyone begins this 'adventure,' no one really knows where it'll end, and most importantly, how to do things. Most people seem to think that you just begin to speak the minority language and, magically, your kids follow suit and begin speaking it, but it's much, much harder than that. This book offers a great description of what those efforts are, and how they've been successfully implemented by other families. It certainly provides a good mirror to reflect upon, and those pages are full of wisdom and great 'secrets' to share. Highly recommended!"
"This fascinating book will show you that there are many successful ways to gift children with multiple languages from infancy. Whatever your situation and language experience, there is probably a path that you can follow to successfully foster bilingualism in your family. Determination is perhaps the only common trait of the many families interviewed by expert author Adam Beck. A great resource to gain confidence in your own bilingual journey."
"I would strongly recommend this book to any parent raising multilingual kids - or those thinking of trying. Read it and be encouraged! The stories are carefully curated so that, whatever your situation, you will find something to inspire you. One extra language or many, different ages of children, native or non-native speaker of the target language, it’s all here with a “you can do it too” tone. I was personally encouraged by the repeated refrain that it doesn’t have to be perfect - and it can always be fun."
"What a great source of support and encouragement for families like mine, trying to raise multilingual children! When anyone begins this 'adventure,' no one really knows where it'll end, and most importantly, how to do things. Most people seem to think that you just begin to speak the minority language and, magically, your kids follow suit and begin speaking it, but it's much, much harder than that. This book offers a great description of what those efforts are, and how they've been successfully implemented by other families. It certainly provides a good mirror to reflect upon, and those pages are full of wisdom and great 'secrets' to share. Highly recommended!"
Friends, I'd be so grateful if you'd consider lending your support in these ways...
1. Getting a copy of the book for yourself and/or for a friend. And feel free to contact me personally with your impressions of the book or any related questions.
Get the book at Amazon UK (or at another Amazon site or bookseller).
Here's a sample of the book (the first 37 pages) that you can download and read...
2. Adding a review at Amazon and Goodreads. Your review would be extremely helpful for raising awareness of the book out in the world!
The book page at Goodreads
3. Telling others about the book, online and off. The best link to offer people, for further information, is the book page at Bilingual Monkeys:
bilingualmonkeys.com/bilingual-success-stories-around-the-world-book
Whatever support you might be able to offer, from today and on into the future, would be truly appreciated! And if I can help with these efforts in any way (by providing images, a giveaway copy of the book, etc.), again, just contact me.
I hope you enjoy reading Bilingual Success Stories Around the World and you find that the experiences it describes are encouraging for your own. In fact, a number of the success stories you'll read about are the experiences of members of this forum. I want to thank them, as well as the other parents whose stories are included in the book, for so generously sharing their lives with me, as the writer, and with us all, as readers. 
