We have answered more than two hundred questions on the topic of raising bilingual children, and the worry that gets mentioned most frequently is whether kids growing up to learn more than one language can get confused by the languages in their family and...
This is the time of year when we are all encouraged to make resolutions to improve different aspects of our lives. As parents of bilingual kids we are no exception to the expectation of making promises to change our behaviour to ensure that our children grow up to be...
Question Hello, I'm pregnant with our first baby and start to be worried about the future language development of my son. I'm Polish, my fiancé is French and we communicate in English (I can't speak French and my fiancé can't speak Polish). Nevertheless, we live in...
As parents of bilingual children, many of us have been there: finding ourselves in a situation where others give us advise on what is best for our children when it comes to their languages, and how we should behave as a family. Sometimes we get brilliant ideas on how...
Parents who want to bring up their kids to speak the family languages can learn a lot from those families who have been successful at bringing up bilingual children. However, I also think that a great deal can be learnt from parents whose children grew up not becoming...
Living in a bilingual family brings with it a lot of joy – but also some particular dilemmas, some of them funny, but quite challenging nonetheless! How to address everyone in the family at the same time You would think asking everyone to come and eat would be...
Question Hi, thanks for sharing important information on your website and being a reference for the parents who are lost in the sea of advice... We have a very specific question regarding our first daughter, who has some speech delay and is exposed to three languages....
Question Hi, I am Chinese and my husband is English. I speak English but my husband doesn't speak any Chinese. I am excited about my daughter learning to speak both languages and I've set myself goal since I was pregnant that I will teach my daughter Chinese, talk to...
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...
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,...