Meetup: Raising Multilingual Children
When: March 23, 2024, 1 p.m.
Where: Kungsholmens bibliotek Internationella biblioteket, Sankt Eriksgatan 33, 112 39 Stockholm
This is an opportunity to mingle with fellow international families, exchange experiences, build connections, and have inspiring conversations in a laid-back and friendly atmosphere. This is a kid friendly event.
During this meetup, you can also listen to an English-Swedish story telling session, by the publishing house pionier press.
More about the program
Teaching Angel AB is on the mission to spread knowledge about language acquisition, celebrate bilingualism and support parents in making the right education related choices for their children. They hold online lectures and workshops about raising multilingual children at Folkuniversitetet to support parents on their multilingual journey.
This event is an informal way to support parents in connecting with each other, sharing experiences, discussing burning questions or asking an expert on this topic. During the meetup you will have the opportunity to mingle, browse library books, check out pionier press' bilingual children's books and learn about multilingualism in a playful format.
Vera Angyal, the founder of Teaching Angel AB, has over 15 years of experience as an international educator. She has been teaching in Sweden since 2016. She holds a Master’s degree in English Literature and Linguistics, a Bachelor’s degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and has recently completed her Level 1 training as an Educational Coach.
Vera has worked with hundreds of language learners and dozens of international families over her career. She is an English as an Additional Language specialist teacher and has vast knowledge about language learning, maintaining the home language, special educational needs and about education in general.
pionier press is an independent micropublishing house based in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in 1991 by graphic designer Arina Stoenescu and began as a project meant to explore the book as a container for art and letters. Over the years, Arina’s long-time interest in bilingualism has emerged as the main publication focus. Today, pionier press mainly publishes bilingual children’s books, and over 50 bilingual titles find their way to readers of English, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kurdish (Sorani), Lithuanian, Norwegian (both Bokmål and Nynorsk), Romani (Kalderash), Romanian, Russian and Yiddish (both with Hebrew and Latin script) or just to those curious about how bilingual children’s books can build cultural bridges.
From the pionier press web page:
"Many children today grow up in a multilingual environment. In a world that seems to grow both bigger and smaller, knowledge of multiple languages – and the cultural perspectives that they inherently carry – is not only a helpful navigation tool, but a way to further cooperation and understanding. Through the focus on bilingual children’s books, pionier press seeks to create a global reading platform for today's global readers."
