by Wendy van Dalen | 28 June 2022 | expat children, expat children in the Netherlands, NT2
Remigrating to the Netherlands after a period abroad is not easy and certainly not if you also have children to think about: therefore 5 tips. The most important thing is to prepare your child well for this move to the Netherlands. As a family, we are also in this...
by Wendy van Dalen | 11 March 2022 | expat children
Comparing education systems worldwide: do horror schools exist in the Netherlands? How is this in the rest of the world? Do we have “Horror Schools” in the Netherlands? No, fortunately not really. But the term refers to the perception of parents and...
by Wendy van Dalen | 2 March 2022 | Dutch as a second language, expat children, NT2
Code-switching is the switching of languages by multilinguals within a single conversation. “He is bragging! This is a statement, I frequently hear when expat children switch languages or use them interchangeably. Mixing languages is bragging, exaggerating, or a...
by Wendy van Dalen | 18 November 2021 | Dutch as a second language, expat children, learning Dutch as a third language, NT2
Advantages and disadvantages of multilingual parenting have often been discussed by people. People who are entirely in favor of multilingual education and by people who are critical of this. In this blog, I discuss the most important myths and benefits surrounding...
by Wendy van Dalen | 22 September 2021 | Dutch as a second language, expat children, expat children in the Netherlands, learning Dutch as a third language, NT2
The conditions to learn Dutch as a second or third language I will explain how the Dutch online lessons work for expat children, based on the conditions to learn (Dutch as a) a second or third language. Children learn a second language fastest if they receive...
by Wendy van Dalen | 15 September 2021 | Dutch as a second language, expat children, expat children in the Netherlands, learning Dutch as a third language, NT2
Learning Dutch (NT2) as an expat child can be challenging! Okay, it is fair to say that English has become the second language of the Netherlands. But many families that have made the move before, will agree that a more than a basic understanding of the Dutch language...
