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Thoughts on multilingualism, language development, identity and everything in between. Written for families, individuals, educators and businesses — and anyone who’s ever felt like they live between languages.
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Why Language Belongs at the Heart of Your Inclusion Strategy Walk into almost any mid-sized company today and you’ll find a quietly multilingual workforce. Someone doing mental arithmetic in Polish before answering in German. A team meeting where three people are working hard to follow a fast-paced conversation in a language that isn’t their first.
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How History, Terminology, and Women’s Roles Shaped the Languages We Carry Today Every year, three observances appear close together on the calendar: International Mother Language Day on the 21st of February, International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, and in the UK, Mother’s Day, which also falls in March most years. At first glance,
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Most of the time, language stays in the background of our daily work. Meetings happen, mails are written, ideas are exchanged, and we rarely think about the mechanics behind communication. That changes quickly when we start working in a language that isn’t our strongest one. This often happens during professional transitions: joining an international company,
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Every year on the 21st of February, International Mother Language Day is observed around the world as an initiative of UNESCO to promote linguistic diversity and multilingual education. On the surface, it may appear as one more awareness day among many, but for millions of people, it touches something far more intimate: the languages that
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In many international teams, communication problems rarely feel dramatic. There are no obvious conflicts, no open arguments, no clear mistakes. Instead, there’s low-level friction: small misunderstandings, repeated clarifications, decisions that seem clear in theory but blurry in practice. In multilingual teams, this friction is often blamed on language. Yet language itself is rarely the root
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Every year, people set intentions about who they want to become. Resolutions are written down, goals are set, and intentions often centre on self-improvement: becoming more confident, communicating more clearly, learning something new. Learning a new language often appears somewhere on that list. Many people associate personal growth with clear goals and visible progress. What’s
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For a long time, speaking more than one language was treated as a nice extra. Something that looked good on a CV, something that might give you a small edge, but rarely something that was seen as essential. That way of thinking is quietly falling apart and being replaced with a more multilingual-focused approach. In
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There’s something about New Year’s Eve that always makes me pause, even when I’m not quite sure how I want to step into the year ahead. It’s not only the fireworks or the countdown, but the feeling of a shared moment that stretches across languages, cultures, and time zones. My Many New Year’s Eves Some
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As we near the end of the year, many Western companies invite their employees to what is traditionally called a Christmas Party. These events are a lovely opportunity to acknowledge everyone’s hard work and celebrate achievements made throughout the year. They’re also a chance to spend time together, an increasingly rare moment of in-person connection
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Welcome to Multi Lingua Consulting It is with great joy, and also, if I’m honest, a bit of fear, that I hit publish on this post and officially launch my very own business: Multi Lingua Consulting. It’s been at least a year in the making, and what a rollercoaster the last year has been! Businesses,
