Six Tendencies of Monolinguals

I wrote this article mimiking the style of research that monolingual researchers often use to describe bilingual and multilingual speakers. No, I am not stereotyping with a broad brush. Therefore, I wrote tendencies.

1. Monolinguals cannot understand that “correcting” someone else’s language requires verbal consent.

So, for example, if a multilingual is telling you a funny story about a life event, don’t stop them mid-sentence to correct their pronunciation or choice of words. Unless you both consent to correct each other, no correction is needed. If you…