Home Languages Resources for Families
Your child is learning a new language, not replacing their home language. Your child should continue to use and learn the languages spoken at home. Using more than one language will not confuse children. Children who speak more than one language use the skills from their home language when they learn English. Your child will learn English faster if they continue to learn their home languages. Mixing more than one language together is normal for multilingual language learners and is part of learning a new language.
Please continue to speak, read, write, and sing in your home languages. Your child can also join our International and Indigenous Languages program to continue their learning in their home languages.
Hold onto Your Home Language Brochure from MyLanguage.ca
- Arabic: عربي
- Bahasa Indonesia: bahasa Indonesia
- Chinese: 简体中文
- Dutch: Nederlands
- English
- Farsi: فارسی
- Filipino: Filipino
- French: français
- German: Deutsch
- Gujarati: ગુજરાતી
- Hebrew: עִברִית
- Hungarian: Magyar
- Icelandic
- Italian: Italiana
- Japanese: 日本
- Korean: 한국인
- Norwegian: norsk
- Polish: Polski
- Portuguese: Português
- Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
- Romanian: Română
- Russian: Русский
- Spanish: Español
- Turkish: Türk
- Ukrainian: український
- Urdu: اردو
Reading at Home With Your Child
Caregivers can support reading at home in any language by speaking with their children about what they are reading together. The multilingual bookmarks linked below from the Iowa Reading Research Centre are useful for starting conversations with your child about books, which will help them to learn new words, and to understand what they are reading.
Afrikaans
Arabic عربي
- CROWD bookmarks (مجموعة من علامات مميزة من CROWD لتنزيلها)
- PEER bookmarks (مجموعة من علامات مميزة من PEER لتنزيلها.)
Bosnian bosanski
- CROWD bookmarks (Komplet četiri CROWD knjižne oznake koje možete preuzeti)
- PEER bookmarks (Komplet četiri PEER knjižne oznake koje možete preuzeti)
Burmese
- CROWD bookmarks (ေဒါင္းလုုတ္လုုပ္ရန္ CROWD စာအုုပ္မွတ္ ေလးခုုပါ ဆက္)
- PEER bookmarks (ေဒါင္းလုုတ္လုုပ္ရန္ PEER စာအုုပ္မွတ္ ေလးခုုပါ ဆက္)
English
- CROWD Bookmarks (English)
- PEER Bookmarks for Download (English)
French français
- CROWD bookmarks (marques-pages CMOGD à télécharger)
- PEER bookmarks (marques-pages IEER à télécharger)
German Deutsch
- CROWD bookmarks (Satz von vier CROWD Lesezeichen zum Herunterladen)
- PEER bookmarks (Satz von vier PEER Lesezeichen zum Herunterladen)
Karen
Korean 한국인
Lao ພາສາລາວ
- CROWD bookmarks (ຊຸດເຄື່ອງໝາຍຂັ້ນໜ້າປຶ້ມ CROWD ສີ່ຢ່າງສຳລັບການດາວໂຫຼດ)
- PEER bookmarks (ຊຸດເຄື່ອງໝາຍຂັ້ນໜ້າປຶ້ມ PEER ສີ່ຢ່າງສຳລັບການດາວໂຫຼດ)
Chinese (Mandarin) 简体中文
Marshallese
Nepali नेपाली
- CROWD bookmarks (चार वटा क्राउड (CROWD) बुकमार्क्सहरू डाउनलोड)
- PEER bookmarks (चार वटा पियर (PEER) बुकमार्क्सहरू डाउनलोड)
Serbo-Croatian srpskohrvatski
- CROWD bookmarks (Komplet četiri CROWD knjižne oznake koje možete preuzeti)
- PEER bookmarks (Komplet četiri PEER knjižne oznake koje možete preuzeti)
Somali Soomaali
- CROWD Boookmarks (Daji Afar Aastaamaha buugga CROWD ee Dajisashada)
- PEER bookmarks (Daji Afar Aastaamaha buugga PEER ee Dajisashada)
Spanish Español
- CROWD bookmarks (Conjunto de cuatro marcadores CROWD para descargar)
- PEER bookmarks (Conjunto de cuatro marcadores PEER para descargar)
Swahili kiswahili
- CROWD bookmarks (Seti ya Alama za CROWD nne kwaajili ya Kupakua)
- PEER bookmarks (Seti ya Alama za PEER nne kwaajili ya Kupakua)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
- CROWD bookmarks (Bộ Bốn Đánh dấu sách CROWD để Tải xuống)
- PEER bookmarks (Bộ Bốn Đánh dấu sách PEER để Tải xuống)
Please visit the WRDSB MLL Library Page for multilingual books you can borrow or read online.
Phonemic Awareness
Have you ever wondered how sentences in different languages are broken down into individual words and sounds? Please see this Multilingual Phonemic Awareness Resource, with examples in Haitian Creole, German, Mandarin, Japanese, Hindi, Portuguese, French, Swahili, Vietnamese, and Romanian.
My Languages.org Translations for Common Words
mylanguages.org is a FREE website with links to common words, phrases, and simple vocabulary lessons in many languages, including audio pronunciations and visuals.
