Jul 13, 2014
Elisabetta Cassese

Ancient Rome like you have never seen before: “A Journey Through History”, a show for the whole family

Roaming with kids around ancient relics is never quite as easy as it seems, even if you live immersed in it, like many foreigners living in Rome do. In fact, it is either the case that your child or teen...
Jun 28, 2014
Elisabetta Cassese

Teaching a second language: the wild ride of an English lesson

When teaching kids, the adventure is unpredictable. Sometimes a child makes a funny mistake, or comes up with a question an adult would never have imagined. Other times, the child leads the teacher into a bizarre conversation. Teaching English as a second...
May 17, 2014
Elisabetta Cassese

An American mother in Rome: raising kids in Italy

When I became a mother and I started posing myself a series of "how to'" questions, I very soon stumbled on my bilingual education project for my children: how to raise them with English as a near-native language. It was...
Dec 08, 2013
Elisabetta Cassese

Bilingualism: 3 children, 2 methods, 1 family

There I was, twelve years ago, a newborn baby girl and the wish to raise her bilingual. Why? Well, I explained this part here. My recurring almost obsessive question back then was HOW do I raise a bilingual child? Time...
Sep 29, 2013
Elisabetta Cassese

Why do I raise my baby bilingual

In the English­-speaking world the need for bilingualism is seldom strongly felt. One is happy to be the native speaker of the last “lingua franca” (as referred to in the latest work from Nicholas Ostler, a linguist, who claims that...
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