Rita Rosenback, Author at Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: How to engage a 10-year-old to speak the minority language and expand his vocabulary?

by Rita Rosenback | Feb 12, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R

Question Hello! Great website – thank you for taking the time to do this! We have two kids raised from birth bilingual in Italian and English. BUT dad speaks only one of the languages (English) and we're living in the US where foreign languages are fairly...

Q&A: “Am I a poor parent for not speaking the minority language with our child?”

by Rita Rosenback | Feb 9, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hello I have question and maybe this may seem silly, but do you think that the fact that parents who don’t teach or raise their kids as native bilinguals are “poor parents”? My son is 7. He speaks predominantly English at home but can communicate a...

Q&A: Should a parent stop speaking a non-native language so that a child does not get an accent?

by Rita Rosenback | Feb 2, 2017 | Challenges, Coaches, Language and bilingualism, Non-native language, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hello, My family and I live in Iran. We don't have many bilinguals or multinationals in our country. People know a little English but not very much. I have a daughter, who is 6 years old. I am an English-teacher in my country, too. I teach kids under...

Q&A: Should parents always speak their native language with their children?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 29, 2017 | Coaches, Language development, Non-native language, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hello I work in a school and we have concerns about a child whose English vocabulary is very limited. Her mother (who is native English speaker but who spent part of her childhood in France) speaks to her in French at home. Father is absent so French...

Q&A: Is a dual-language school which introduces a third language the right choice for a bilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 26, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hi, I have a 4-year-old son. We live in Los Angeles. I'm originally from India and native Hindi speaker. My husband is American and monolingual (English). Since my son's birth I've been on a mission to teach him Hindi. I'm proud to say that he...

Q&A: Will introducing a third language set back the second for a bilingual toddler?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 22, 2017 | Coaches, Language and bilingualism, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hi all! We are an Italian family of three, our son is now 20 months old. We always speak Italian at home, with me mixing Italian and English. My son attends an Italian nursery school, but is highly exposed to English as we also have an...

Q&A: Is it necessary to arrange additional tuition for a child’s minority language?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 19, 2017 | Coaches, Language development, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R

Question Hi, My question is, do you need to set aside time for language lessons either by parents or professional for the minority language? My 3-year-old daughter speaks Spanish (we live in Spain) and English (minority language) and she is well on her way to...

Q&A: Choosing the school language for a bilingual child – one of the home languages or a third one?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 15, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello, My daughter is two years old. We live in Beirut, Lebanon. Our community language is Arabic. Our schools provide education either in English or in French. Some schools teach both English and French languages equally. Since birth, my daughter was...

Q&A: How to maintain and support minority languages in a multilingual family?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 12, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello, I am currently pregnant with our first child and my husband and I are trying to make a family language plan. I am American so my native language is English, but I also know a good amount of French and a few words and phrases in Ewe. My husband is...

Q&A: How to support a small bilingual child with the school languages?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 8, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hi The best way to learn a language? We live in the country (Spain), of course. Well this is our problem: We have a son who is three and a half. He was born in Barcelona. We have lived here for many years. I'm English and his mother is Danish. We both...

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