Rita Rosenback, Author at Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: How to prepare a bilingual toddler for a move to another country?

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 8, 2015 | Babies, Challenges, Coaches, Family life, Practical advice, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hello, I'm looking for resources and advice for educating our daughter who is now nearly 7 months old. My husband and I currently live in the USA but will be moving to Germany when our daughter is 1 1/2 years old. I'm a native English speaker (US). My husband...

Q&A: Is saying something in two languages a good way to teach an additional language?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 3, 2015 | Babies, Coaches, Non-native language, Practical advice, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Dear Rita and all other Family Languages Coaches, I am Shoko, Japanese, and a mother of a son who is 26 months old. My husband is also Japanese and we reside in Japan. I have lived in the States when I was 6-10 years old, and also again when I was 22-25 years...

Q&A: Teaching a possibly dyslexic child to read and write in the minority language.

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 23, 2015 | Challenges, Coaches, Literacy, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R, Teenagers

Question I am a Swedish national living in the UK with my husband and 10-year-old daughter. The main language we speak at home is English, and Swedish is the minority language. My husband does not speak Swedish, whereas our daughter speaks it more or less fluently,...

Q&A: Should we choose the majority language or a third one as our family language?

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 2, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello, We are Czech-Finnish couple living for 3 years in Finland and we just got our first child. We tried to agree on our family-language-strategy before our son was born, but we couldn´t agree on one. What was sure was, that each one of us wants to speak to...

Q&A: How can monolingual parents keep up with their bilingual children?

by Rita Rosenback | May 28, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hello! My husband and I are both monolingual English speakers living in the southern United States. When our daughter was born, we fell in love with a Spanish-Immersion daycare in our area and our daughter has attended full-time since 14 months old (she is...

Q&A: How to cope with multiple languages in a family?

by Rita Rosenback | May 21, 2015 | Coaches, Practical advice, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question My wife and I are having a baby, we are truly excited but we are scared about the language in how to educate our child. We are of different nationalities, Portuguese and Russian, we live in Germany (since one year) and our common language is English (our...

Q&A: How to teach a non-native language (English) to a toddler

by Rita Rosenback | May 14, 2015 | Babies, Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hello, I am from Poland and the father of a 20 months old daughter. For me and my wife out mother tongue is Polish. I caught up an idea to introduce another language to my child from TV cartoons … let me explain. Here in Poland in national television, there...

Q&A: Can I teach my son Spanish during the weekends?

by Rita Rosenback | May 7, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hello, My son is five and his mother tongue is English, I'm trying to speak in Spanish with him. He is interested in learning Spanish and already knows some words, but what would be the best method to turn him bilingual? He is with me on weekends and I am the...

Q&A: How to reintroduce English for our bilingual children?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 9, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R

Question I love your blog and helpful tips! I wanted to consult you on an issue if I may. I hope you have some time to help me out with professional advice. I have two kids, ages 4 and 7. We are both originally from Israel and speak Hebrew as mother tongue as well as...

Q&A: Passing on a non-native language to a child

by Rita Rosenback | Feb 26, 2015 | Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question I stumbled across this website and found it extremely helpful and interesting. I tried to surf through some of the questions and recent posts but my situation does not seem to be covered. My wife and I are talking about trying to have children in the next few...

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