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At Ute’s International Lounge Academy, we offer expert-led LIVE webinars designed for parents, teachers, educators, and professionals who work with or within multilingual families.

Our webinar series are crafted to bridge research and real-life, providing you with advanced strategies, practical tools, and individualized insights to confidently navigate the multilingual and intercultural journey. (read more)

 

 

 

On Saturday 28 February 2026 I will have the honor and pleasure to talk about Language and Shame at the Let’s Talk! session organized by Families in Global Transition.

 

Together with Mathieu Gagnon, Isabelle Min and Marianne Bobaly-Dienes we will share our personal and professional experience and insights into the topic of shame with regards to language use and ability.

 

Shame as a social construct, relational and learned (!) emerges from perceived judgment, exclusion, or hierarchy. It depends on norms about what counts as “correct,” “educated,” “native,” or “prestigious”.


Shame is a response that we need to identify the causes for in order to approach it in the healthiest possible way. – If you ever felt shame when using your heritage language or any language for that matter, please join our conversation and share your experience with us! 
There will be plenty of time for Q&A!

 

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What participants say about Ute's courses & webinars
Anna B.
Mother of 3 and entrepreneur
I keep on learning Ute's webinar on Raising children with multiple languages is brilliant! Ute shares research findings in a very understandable way. We designed our own Family Language Plan 3 years ago and Ute helps us adjust it when needed. I regularly attend Ute's Free Online Meetings on Multilingualism and enjoy the contact and exchange with other parents!
Carla R.
Web Designer and mother of 2
Excellent Webinar! I attended Ute's webinar Raising children with multiple languages when my first son was not even born. She helped us decide about how to combine all our languages (we speak 6 between me and my partner), considering that we moved internationally twice in the past 4 years. Our sons are now 6 and 2, and we speak 3 languages at home. They understand English and Dutch – and we are preparing them to the next move and are introducing German to them. Ute's expertise about TCKs is very helpful for us too!
Elisavet A.
Mother of 2, author of children's books
E.N.J.O.Y. Raising Children with Multiple Languages for parents of 0 to 4 year old children is Ute's very first online, self-paced course for parents, with more to follow. Now that I have attended it, I can honestly say that I would recommend it to ALL parents who are just about to start their journey of raising bilingual children. Not only that, but it should be referred to as a “must-attend course” alongside the other pre-natal courses we attend as parents, and information to be handed out in leaflets at hospitals/doctor’s offices, etc depending on what’s available in each country during those early pregnancy visits. My first kid was born in a country with a multilingual population/two official languages and courses like this one would have been of tremendous value to new parents.
Yoshito D.-S.
Father of 2, teacher, writer
E.N.J.O.Y. Raising Children with Multiple Languages for parents of 0 to 4 year old children If you are raising a child who is 4 y.o or under with more than one language, I highly recommend this course. (...) I was blown away by the amount of knowledge and help packed in this course. Please note: I have not been asked to write any review or anything. I went through the course to test mainly the accessibility of everything offered and felt compelled to share it with everyone. If you know Ute, I don't need to tell you how knowledgeable and helpful she is. And her course is a perfect reflection of it. It is very well designed and provides A TON of information in a practical way. I personally understand things better when people talk to me (rather than reading), so if are like me, you will appreciate the videos that accompany the course. Another detail that I think is going to make the learning experience very smooth and help get the most value out of each lesson is the accompanying editable pdf booklet. It helps us process the lessons by applying them to our own circumstances while watching to videos. It is also packed with various links to different resources (research articles, blog posts, YouTube videos, etc.). So whenever you might want a little more details about a certain point or topic, you can get it with a simple click. So if you are thinking of raising multilingual children, or have children aged 0-4, definitely have a look at Ute's course!
Jim D.R.
CEO and father of 2
Fantastic course! I had the chance to be one of the beta-provers of Ute's online course and can only recommend it. It's easy to follow. My wife and I worked on the assignments together and met Ute at a free meeting to discuss details. We'll definitely attend her monthly meetings to "keep on track".
Elisabeth B.
Owner of a Marketing Agency and mother of 2
I highly recommend Ute's Courses! I took Ute's course for parents of multilingual children years ago and some of her webinars later. I learn always something new and her suggestions are always spot on! She has a lot of experience and is up to date with latest scientific findings. 
Roberto A.
Assistant Professor
I recommend Ute's webinar about Intercultural Communication I found Ute's webinar about Intercultural Communication very helpful! Especially the part about gestures and techniques to avoid misunderstandings helped me to better understand how many different ways there are to use English at work.  
Qin B.
Engineer and mother of two
I enjoyed Ute's Course! I followed Ute's course on raising multilingual children successfully in 2019. We just moved to the Netherlands and didn't know how our children would adjust to the different languages in the community. We found a few strategies that worked for us and both our children are doing very well at school. Ute's insights about what to consider when moving frequently were particularly helpful as we are going to move internationally in 2 years.