Rita Rosenback, Author at Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: How to choose between OPOL and mL@H?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 1, 2016 | Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello! My name is Lucia. My American husband and I live in Gijon, a little city in the north of Spain. Right now we are pregnant and we starting thinking which is the best plan to raise our baby bilingually. We have a doubt between two ideas. One, I...

“Does my bilingual child have a language delay?”

by Rita Rosenback | Aug 24, 2016 | Challenges, Language development, Practical advice, Rita R, Toddlers

Amongst the most frequently expressed worries in different forums for parents raising bilingual children are concerns about potential delays in language development. Several research studies have found that bilingualism does not cause language delay (read more in e.g...

Q&A: Should a minority language parent also help a toddler with the majority language?

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

Question Hello! Me, my husband and our 11-month-old son (and another baby coming very soon) are living in Australia. My husband is Australian and talks English to our son and I am Norwegian and talk Norwegian to our son. I have some questions that I would like to get...

Q&A: How to maintain two minority languages, one of which the parents do not speak?

by Rita Rosenback | Aug 4, 2016 | Challenges, Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Dear Family Language Coaches, Thanks for this service, which has been super helpful to us. Our kids are effectively trilingual – fluent in French, English and Japanese. Us parents are bilingual. One of us speaks to the kids in about 50% French, 50% English,...

Q&A: How to plan ahead for raising a baby to be trilingual?

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 28, 2016 | Babies, Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello! My name is Fatima and I live in the USA. I’m originally from Russia, and my husband is from Jordan. My baby is only 4 months old, I know it’s too early to think about languages now but I don’t want to be late! So I read a lot about multilingual...

Q&A: In which language should a bilingual child attend a summer course in math(s)?

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 21, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R

Question Hello to all of you! I am Spanish native speaker and my son who is 10 years old – he is also a Spanish native speaker. He was studying in our home country (Panama) from kindergarten until second grade and after that he moved with me to Turkey. At the age of...

Q&A: Bilingual school – a good way to add a third language for a bilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 17, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hi, I am a first time mom (my baby is 2mo) and both my husband and I are interested in raising our child as multilingual/trilingual. We are both Spanish and living in Ireland, and as per all the reading we have been doing about bilingualism we are speaking...

Q&A: How to pass on a minority language when both parents work?

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 14, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hi, I'm currently pregnant but have started questioning so many things about my kids already. Me and my husband both are from India settled in US. My parents do not understand English and can speak only in native language. I would like my kids to learn and...

Q&A: Does introducing a new language impact on learning to read and write in another?

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 10, 2016 | Challenges, Coaches, Literacy, Rita R

Question Hei, in search of advice I have found your webpage and hope you can help me with the following problem: Our family (me, my husband, and two boys, aged 4 and 6.5) are German living in Norway. Both kids go to Norwegian kindergarten/school, so the surrounding...

Q&A: Will a small child lose a language if the exposure time is drastically reduced?

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 7, 2016 | Challenges, Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R

Question Hello! My husband and I are monolingual but our 5-year-old is fluent in German thanks to a German immersion school. If she no longer attends the school, so her German exposure decreases from 40 hours/week to 3-5 hours a week, is she in danger of "losing" her...

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