Rita Rosenback, Author at Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: How to get a toddler to use the minority language?

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 9, 2016 | Coaches, Language development, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hello, My name is May. I'm Indonesian and my husband is German. We live in Germany. I have a daughter, she is 22 months old now and we will have the second one soon. I speak Indonesian with my daughter and my husband speaks German with her. My husband...

Q&A: How to maximise the exposure to two minority languages?

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 6, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Dear Rita, Thank you for all the knowledge you share. Your page has been an invaluable source of information. I have one concern I wonder you might be able to help me with. I was born in the US but raised in Italy by Italian parents. My English pronunciation...

Q&A: Should a parent not fluent in the minority language switch to the majority one?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 29, 2016 | Coaches, Language development, Majority language parent, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hi Rita! My husband and I are scouring the Internet in hopes of finding some guidance and we'd love your thoughts! Our son is 13 months old. My husband is Iranian and I'm not. He speaks both Farsi and English fluently and I'm fluent in English and...

Q&A: Are three languages too many for a small child?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 25, 2016 | Coaches, Language development, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello, I have a question concerning a triligual environment in which my daughter (9 month old baby) lives. I am Serbian and my husband is French and we are currently living in France. I am speaking my native language to our baby and my husband his. She is...

Q&A: When should parents in a mL@H family switch to the majority language?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 22, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Dear Rita, I'm raising two children in the United States where they will learn English naturally from their surroundings but I speak to them in Greek about 90-95% of the time and my husband also speaks to them in Greek but more of a mix of the two languages....

Q&A: Can a bilingual mother speak both languages with her child?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 18, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hi, My question is: how to choose a language when the mother is bilingual herself? We live in France, so our community language is French, while our home language is Italian. The point is that I'm bilingual myself, Italian-French, so which language should I...

Q&A: Choosing the family language strategy after a move: when the minority language becomes the majority one.

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 15, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A Moving to another country with a bilingual / multilingual child, Rita R

Question Dear Rita, Thank you for your wealth of knowledge and great posts! So far bilingual has been easy, since both my husband and I are German and we live in Texas. We both speak our native German with our almost 2-year-old daughter and with each other. She learnt...

Q&A: What to do when the other parent is against speaking the minority language?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 11, 2016 | Challenges, Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hi, I am Chinese and my husband is English. I speak English but my husband doesn't speak any Chinese. I am excited about my daughter learning to speak both languages and I've set myself goal since I was pregnant that I will teach my daughter Chinese, talk to...

Q&A: Does OPOL cause a “language division” in the family?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 8, 2016 | Coaches, Grandparents, Rita R

Question Hello, My name is Roberta and I have only recently found out about your website and signed up to the newsletter and I'm hoping you can help with a query I have. I'm Italian and my husband is English and we live in England together we our 6-month-old son. He...

Q&A: How can one parent support the majority language while maintaining the minority one?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 4, 2016 | Coaches, Rita R

Question Hello! My name is Monique. I’m from the Netherlands originally and living in Australia with two children and my partner who is Australian. At the moment I’m a little lost as to what is the right bilingual system in particular with our youngest boy. He does...

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