Rita Rosenback, Author at Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: Is it okay to have a third language as OPOL parents’ common language?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 23, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello, I would like to validate our family approach and maybe get some tips to improve on our current strategy. Our little one is 3 years old. We live in Austria and he is already in the kindergarten so picking up his German skills slowly but surely....

Q&A: How to support a bilingual 3-year-old learning a third language?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 19, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hi! I'm German, my wife is Greek, we live in Greece. Our daughter is 3 1/2 years old. I speak only German to her (and she responds in German). My wife and everybody else speak only Greek to her (and she responds in Greek). My daughter's Greek is...

Q&A: What are the implications of switching the language you speak with your baby?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 16, 2017 | Babies, Challenges, Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Dear Language Coaches, Can you please give any advice on my family's language situation? My wife is fluent in both English and Afrikaans, with HL (home language) Afrikaans. My HL is English and my Afrikaans is good enough for us to successfully...

Q&A: Should a parent change the language spoken with a child in anticipation of an international move?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 12, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A Moving to another country with a bilingual / multilingual child, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello! We are a Spanish\Catalan family who has lived in China for nearly four years and our child speaks the three languages without no problem as we do OPOL and she goes to a Chinese school. We are planning to move to England in November or so, so we...

Q&A: How to introduce a second minority language to a child?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 9, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello, I have been reading your website with interest and hope you can help me in introducing French to my two-year old son. I am half English and half French and fluent in both languages, although my dominant language is English. My husband is Iraqi...

Q&A: Speaking different languages on different days – a good way to raise a trilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 5, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello, We are a Russian couple living in the Czech Republic and bringing up our 11-month-old daughter multilingual. In addition to Russian and Czech languages, we want her to speak English as well. Both of us speak Czech and English fluently and...

Q&A: Should minority language parents always be consistent about using their mother tongue?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 2, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Dear All, We are an Italian family living in France. We speak Italian at home (two hours at night and on the weekends/holidays) but sometimes in the afternoons after school, when my husband is not there yet, it happens that I speak French as well to my...

Q&A: How not to exclude others when you speak a minority language with your child?

by Rita Rosenback | Feb 26, 2017 | Babies, Challenges, Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hello, I am from Hungary and live in the UK with my British husband. At home we speak English, as my husband doesn't speak much Hungarian. We have a 3-month-old baby, with whom I have been talking in Hungarian when it is just the two of us, or if we are in...

Q&A: Is it worth passing on a family language for which there is only limited use?

by Rita Rosenback | Feb 19, 2017 | Coaches, Language and bilingualism, Rita R

Question Hello My husband and I are expecting a baby. We live in the US, and he is from a small African country. He speaks his native language fluently and very good English and French. I want our child to speak his language (which I have only basic knowledge...

Q&A: How to do OPOL as parents if you are used to mixing languages?

by Rita Rosenback | Feb 16, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello My wife is Australian, I am Flemish (Dutch-speaking Belgium) and that is also where we live. We are expecting and want our child to be bilingual English-Dutch to pass on both of our cultural identities. Nowadays, since my wife's Dutch has become...

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