by Rita Rosenback | Jan 2, 2020 | Coaches
How to start speaking your native language with a 2-year-old to make her trilingual? Question Hello Me and my husband: I was born and raised in Latvia (Latvian native language), and my husband was born and raised in Italy (Italian language). We both learned English in...
by Rita Rosenback | Oct 24, 2019 | Coaches
Question Hello, My question is the following. I speak English, my husband speaks Russian, Hebrew and English. We would like to be able to give our daughter as many languages as possible. Is there a best way for one partner to teach two languages to the baby? (Also, my...
by Rita Rosenback | Oct 10, 2019 | Coaches
Question Hi, I have a 5-month-old boy to whom I speak Swedish (my mother tongue). We live in Scotland and my husband speaks English to him. We can sort out this bilingual equation, as I consistently speak Swedish to him and sing/read/listen to music and will mostly...
by Rita Rosenback | Sep 24, 2019 | Coaches
Question Hello, I am a Spanish-speaker, my husband is a German-speaker and we live in England. Our three-year-old speaks very fluently both Spanish and German. She is remarkably good in both; I would say at least as good as children being raised with just one...
by Rita Rosenback | Sep 13, 2019 | Coaches
Question Dear Family Language Coaches, We are a bilingual family living in Germany near the Dutch border. I speak my native German with the kids and my husband his mother tongue Dutch. Our two eldest kids both went to German kindergarten until they were four and are...