Turkish in Germany: diaspora & bilinguals

📖 Lesson ──▶ 🎯 Quiz — pick the translation ──▶ ✅ Lesson done

~3 million Turks in Germany — largest diaspora. Bilingual child: Turkish at home, school German. Strategy: parent — one language, 15 min/day read aloud, Turkish Saturday school, holidays in Turkey. Special: „code-switching“ — two languages in one sentence („Ben gehe okula“) — normal for bilinguals, but don’t get stuck. Abitur-Turkish = exam as a foreign language.

●„One parent — one language“: don’t mix
●Turkish fairy tales = free trainer
●Code-switching normal: „Ben gehe okula“ — but don’t get stuck

🌍 Bilinguals train „smart muscles“: children with two languages solve switch tasks 200 ms faster — lifelong training.

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Test yourself!

Practice the topic with the trainer — like after class

Quiz — pick the translation → 🖨 Worksheet

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