Growing up with Three Languages Quotes

“The children’s craze for the series provided us with a good opportunity to introduce the Chinese and French versions to them, first by reading to them, then reading together with them and finally encouraging them to read some of the translations on their own. Because the children were so interested in Harry Potter, it was no struggle for them to try the home-language versions. In fact, the boys voluntarily looked at the French and Chinese versions and compared their favorite parts with the English version.”
― Xiao-lei Wang, Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to eleven

“The overarching goal of the book is to help parents see the possibilities for raising children with three languages when parents are the major source of the heritage-language input, and make efforts to preserve their heritage language(s) starting at the family level.”
― Xiao-lei Wang, Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to eleven