My classmate in London, conducting PhD research into bilingualism. You wrote a book on raising bilingual children, undoubtedly influenced by your own French/English speaking family. It occurs to me that I should be finding the finished product about now.
Interesting topic. They should conduct it in Canada. I speak 4 different languages at home and mix them all together when I'm having conversation with my siblings.
SvarSletBilingualism is interesting in general (I did some courses on it as part of a master's degree in linguistics). There is a lot of research done on Canada's bilingual policies, and also a lot done on code switching (the technical term for the type of language mixing that you have with your siblings). It's a neat area to research.
SvarSletHowever, bilingualism has also created problems for Canadians who only speak 1 language. French is not spoken except in Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario. That's if the families are French-Canadians. Otherwise, French is not used in many places unless there's a French speaking community somewhere.
SvarSletIt has become the language war and people who are stuck in the middle (me) don't really know where to stand in the issue.