Interesting timing choice; Just as the CSU in Bayern decide that all people living in Germany should be forced to speak German at home: http://www.telegraph.co

Interesting timing choice; Just as the CSU in Bayern decide that all people living in Germany should be forced to speak German at home: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11278764/All-immigrants-should-speak-German-at-home-say-Merkels-allies.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/112... Most German people I meet seem to think that my children growing up in a bilingual German-English household is great, "your children are so lucky", "they have such an advantage" is a phrase I hear a lot. It just seems that German-Turkish isn't thought of in the same way, but is it really so different? Surely the underlying benefit of a bilingual upbringing is about future opportunity and earnings potential. Whether that be that you can earn money from business opportunities inside a sizable Turkish population (both internal in Germany or in Turkey) or a very large external English speaking population, are both valid. On top of that, bilingualism has many other benefits, namely cognitive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_advantages_of_bilingualism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_advantages_of_bilingu... As well as a few (minor) downsides: http://www.multilingualchildren.org/getting_started/pro_con.html http://www.multilingualchildren.org/getting_started/pro_con.... Overall, most people think that being bilingual is a good thing. The bottom line is that whether the author wants to blog in German, or English (or both) or Klingon, is entirely his choice. Hopefully that choice should be the authors for the foreseeable future!