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Raising Bilingual Children vividly describes how children in a German-French family grow up bilingual. The special nature of this case is always linked with general findings from bilingualism research, so that the book is generally suitable as a practical guide for bilingual child-raising in families and schools. Questions that are asked again and again are discussed and answered in detail: Which rules of language distribution should be particularly observed? Are there exceptions to this? Are children overburdened by learning two languages at the same time? Are there necessarily language delays? Do the children have one mother tongue or two mother tongues or perhaps none at all? Can they become 'properly' bilingual at all? Do they have problems with bilingualism at school? In reading, writing and arithmetic? What influence does bilingualism have on their intellectual development? Do the children have orientation difficulties? Do they know where they belong? The book takes up these and many other questions, describes the problems that arise using concrete examples, analyses their possible causes and points out solutions and answers.