tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1132547320196715283.post6561931289757379587..comments2023-04-21T15:19:04.905+08:00Comments on Being Multilingual: There are multilinguals and multilingualsMadalena Cruz-Ferreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14782492322928803326noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1132547320196715283.post-18905453267981319982010-11-25T15:13:09.899+08:002010-11-25T15:13:09.899+08:00ms_bobdog: Good question. My take is precisely tha...ms_bobdog: Good question. My take is precisely that questions that don’t make sense about monolingualism don’t make sense about multilingualism either.<br />MadalenaMadalena Cruz-Ferreirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14782492322928803326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1132547320196715283.post-87620888133881799462010-11-24T22:27:13.301+08:002010-11-24T22:27:13.301+08:00Your next post on Mother Tongues should be very in...Your next post on Mother Tongues should be very interesting in the Singapore educational context, considering that Mother Tongues are apparently assigned based on the child's ethnic group! <br /><br />By the way, how can we be so sure that a monolingual doesn't have "bits and pieces missing"?ms_bobdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10175658529569132614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1132547320196715283.post-90105583318268017542010-11-24T15:52:43.708+08:002010-11-24T15:52:43.708+08:00Gregor: Really interesting what you say, I didn’t ...Gregor: Really interesting what you say, I didn’t know this. Is it so that someone chooses this one language for you, for example when you start school? <br />I’ll be talking about so-called “mother tongue” choices next month, here at the blog, so you got me wondering. In the cases I’m familiar with, the person/child assigned to a language has no say in the matter. And it is, like you write, always just one language. <br />It looks like “officially” multilingual means just that, 'officially'.<br />MadalenaMadalena Cruz-Ferreirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14782492322928803326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1132547320196715283.post-87413115704999765462010-11-24T00:34:18.613+08:002010-11-24T00:34:18.613+08:00It's not easy to be recognised as multilingual...It's not easy to be recognised as multilingual. Even in an officially bilingual (Dutch and French) city like Brussels, perfectly bilingual people (say, with one French-speaking and one Dutch-speaking parent) must officially choose one of the two languages, and this choice in turn determines which politicians they can vote for and how much weight their vote has.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708283327671975042noreply@blogger.com