Bilingual: Life and Reality

Grosjean shows that we still need to fight against the monolingual mindset that has long tended to categorize bilingual speakers as somehow "different" or unusual. Bilingual: Life and Reality is a useful and very readable contribution to that ongoing struggle...It is worth having at one's fingertips the unpretentiously presented, solidly researched facts and figures in this gentle, humorous, civilized book. -- Mela Sarkar Montreal Gazette 20100604 The personal dimension of the book contributes to its readability and vitality. Grosjean succeeds in impressing on his readers the need to demystify bilingualism and seek ways in which to encourage linguistic diversity. -- Kerstin Hoge Times Literary Supplement 20100716