Rita Rosenback, Author at Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: What to do when parents-to-be do not agree about raising bilingual children?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 27, 2017 | Challenges, Coaches, Grandparents, Non-native language, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello I'm recently engaged. My fiancé and I are discussing those premarital topics. Child rearing has come up. He only speaks English. My native language is English, but I'm majoring in Spanish. I brought up the fact that I absolutely want to bring up...

Q&A: When and how to introduce a third language to a bilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 23, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hi, This website has helped me so much, it's wonderful! We are a bilingual family and live in the US. I only speak Spanish to my 15 months old and my husband English most of the time (he is American, I'm Latina). Both my husband and I work full time,...

Q&A: How to choose the school language for a bilingual child in a multilingual society?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 20, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello, I am from a small town in South Africa where the two dominant languages are English and Afrikaans. I have been English my whole life but married an Afrikaans man. We have a two-year-old who has been exposed to both languages from birth but he...

Q&A: Does a parent “mess up” a 2-year-old’s language development by speaking a non-native language?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 16, 2017 | Challenges, Coaches, Language and bilingualism, Language development, Non-native language, Rita R

Question Hello My daughter and son-in-law have four daughters ages 8, 6, 4 and almost 2. "Dad" knows some Italian having lived in Italy a couple of years. He thinks he should have been bilingual with the first three daughters. He speaks only Italian to the...

Q&A: Is it too late for a parent to start speaking a family language with a 2-year-old?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 13, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Dear Coaches, I am Chinese and my husband is Dutch. We live in the Netherlands. My daughter is two years. Now she speaks Dutch but very little Chinese. In the beginning when she was born, I tried to speak Chinese to her, but when everyone around...

Q&A: How to make a reluctant 7-year-old interested in a family language?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 9, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R

Question Hello, I am a French mum who has been living in England for 20 years. During all these years, I hardly spoke French unless I was returning to France to see family on average once a year. I now have a 7-year-old daughter who has always refused to learn...

Q&A: How to pick the right language combination for a baby in a multilingual family?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 6, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello, I have a kind of complex situation when it comes to picking my child's languages. I grew up in the USA with a family with Frisian/Dutch and Brazilian sides, but only used English growing up aside from infrequent exposures to Portuguese and...

Q&A: How to pass on two minority languages, one of them being a rare language?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 2, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello I am wondering what strategy to take. I am a native English-speaker who grew up bilingual in English and Assyrian. My husband is German, but speaks English to a native level. I am the stepmother to his lovely 6-year-old (monolingual) German...

Q&A: How to pass on a family language which the parent is not literate in?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 30, 2017 | Challenges, Coaches, Literacy, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hi, I have a 5-year-old daughter and 1-year-old twins. I was born in Iran and speak Farsi. I moved to the United States at the age of four, so English is my stronger language. My husband only speaks English and we have a nanny who speaks Spanish. We...

Q&A: How to introduce an additional family language to a 4-year-old?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 26, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R

Question Hello, I am after some advice. I am Lithuanian, my husband English. Our son is 4 1/2 years old. My aim was to bring him up as bilingual but somehow it didn't happen. I spoke to him in my native language but not consistently enough. He doesn't really...

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