Rita Rosenback, Author at Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: How to pass on two minority languages? What about adding a fourth language?

by Rita Rosenback | May 18, 2018 | Babies, Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hi, I have some questions concerning the language acquisition of my yet-to-be-born child. Her dad and I live in France and we always communicate in French, which is dad’s mother tongue and the only language he speaks fluently. We live in a 99% French...

Q&A: How to start speaking your native language after years of using the majority language with your child?

by Rita Rosenback | May 3, 2018 | Coaches, Language development, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello I'm very glad to find this website. I have three years old daughter. Our language is Urdu but we start communicating with our daughter in English. In start it was okay but now we are feeling difficulty to explain things to her in English as she...

Q&A: How to encourage a child’s minority languages and arrange language exposure?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 20, 2018 | Coaches, Language development, Literacy, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello, I am a Spanish native speaker living in Canada with my Jordanian husband and h little boys aged almost two and five. At home we speak three languages: me Spanish, husband Arabic and all of us English. My husband and I speak English to each...

Q&A: How can a parent switch the language spoken with a toddler?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 5, 2018 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hi from Turkey! I have twins, a boy and a girl and we have been speaking in our mother tongue since they were born, and it's been 20 months. I can speak English fluently and I wonder if I start to speak only in English with them to make them bilingual...

Q&A: How to prioritise family languages and raise a trilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 22, 2018 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hi, I would like some advice about how to raise our daughter speaking multiple languages. She is only five weeks old but I think we should work out what we're doing now. We live in an English-speaking country. I am English but also fluent in Spanish...

Q&A: How to convince the next generation to maintain the family language?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 8, 2018 | Challenges, Coaches, Grandparents, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello, I have a question: I have successfully raised my children to be bilingual (English and Spanish) in the United States and couldn't be more proud of their fluency in speaking, reading and writing. We spoke it at home and they only use English at school....

Q&A: How to support a trilingual toddler with her family languages?

by Rita Rosenback | Feb 22, 2018 | Babies, Coaches, Language development, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hello, We are a Spanish mum and German dad living in England, and our 18-month-old doesn't speak any words other than "no". Should we be concerned? My husband and I speak to our girl in our language always, no matter what, it even sounds strange to...

Q&A: How to choose the additional language to teach a toddler?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 14, 2018 | Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hi, My husband and I have an 18-month-old son who we would like to raise bilingually in Austin Texas, USA, but we are having a hard time deciding which language to teach him. Predominant languages in our city environment: English and Spanish...

Q&A: How to introduce German alongside three other family languages?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 7, 2018 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Dear multilingual parenting team, My name is Wioletta and I am a Pole who has lived in England for 12 years now. My partner is Scottish. We have a 3-month-old daughter to whom I speak exclusively in Polish and he does in English and Scottish. I am...

Q&A: How to introduce English to a toddler in an environment with limited language resources?

by Rita Rosenback | Dec 28, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Dear Coaches I can't say how grateful I am to you because of this wonderful website! I and my wife have an 18-month-old daughter. We are both Iranian from North West region in which Azeri (a dialect of Turkish language) is the dominant spoken language....

Rita Rosenback