Nick Jaworski, Author at Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: Can a father teach a child three languages?

by Nick Jaworski | Aug 20, 2015 | Coaches, Practical advice, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Q&A The trilingual+ child

Question Hello! Thanks for the website! I am starting to check it out to make our daughter, multilingual like us! My wife and I are native Spanish speakers, we are living in Brazil right now, so we also know how to speak Portuguese and our third languages differ from...

Q&A: How to introduce my native language to my bilingual school-age children?

by Nick Jaworski | Jun 25, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, School-aged children

Question Hello, let me introduce myself to guide you to my request/question. My name is Rita, born in Slovak republic from a Hungarian mother and a Palestinian father. I lived all my childhood in the United Arab Emirates where Arabic and English are the languages...

Q&A: Should I switch to using my native language with my bilingual children?

by Nick Jaworski | Jun 18, 2015 | Challenges, Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family

Question Hello, We are a family of four, two kids, age 5.5 and 2. Father is fluent in Arabic, French and English. I, the stay-at-home mother, am fluent in English and semi-fluent in Arabic. We live in the US, talk to Arab relatives on Skype weekly, and spend a month...

Q&A: Two family languages, children want to speak only one

by Nick Jaworski | Jun 4, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language

Question Hi, I was wondering if you could give me some feedback on how to encourage my passive bilingual kids to "produce" or speak the minority language in our home. I have 4 children ages 10, 9, 6 and 4. Both my husband and I are bilingual English/Arabic speakers. I...

Q&A: How to make best use of videos for a bilingual toddler and how to motivate talking?

by Nick Jaworski | Apr 16, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Toddlers

Question Hello and thank you for the blog! I am a second generation Swedish speaker (Swedish mother) that has only been to Sweden for holidays and I live in Canada. Now I am trying to teach my 3.5-year-old son and 3-month-old daughter Swedish. I've been speaking...

Q&A: How to support all the languages of a trilingual 4-year-old.

by Nick Jaworski | Mar 26, 2015 | Challenges, Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child

Question I am Korean and my wife is Japanese. We have a 4-year-old boy and currently live in the US. My wife and I speak English to each other, although we use broken English (not perfect English). My wife speaks Japanese to my son while I speak Korean to him....

Q&A: How can we help our bilingual child become fully fluent in both languages?

by Nick Jaworski | Feb 12, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family

Question My wife and I live in Trinidad & Tobago (my wife is a native, I am German) and we now have a 10 month old that we want to raise bilingually. I speak to him exclusively in German and my wife in English, but I speak to her in English even when he is around. In...

Q&A: Choosing a school for a bilingual child – should language decide?

by Nick Jaworski | Jan 29, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, School-aged children

Question What is your position/opinion on a family with a father half Norwegian, half American, a Portuguese mother who studied in France, with 2 year old twin boys living in Portugal, to have the kids in a French school from 3 years old on? I speak Portuguese with...

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