Bilingual baby

Q&A: About choosing the language for day care, stuttering and mixing languages

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 8, 2017 | Babies, Challenges, Coaches, Language development, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R

Question Hello, I am Macedonian living in Finland and my spouse is Finnish. I speak quite good English but at home we speak Finnish almost all the time. We have 2,5 months old baby for whose future I'd like her to speak Macedonian and Finnish and to...

Q&A: How to ensure that a trilingual (-to-be) child also picks up parents’ common language?

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

Question Hi, I have been doing a bit of reading on raising trilingual children, as my husband and I are expecting our first child in January. It seems that in most cases the parents have two individual native languages, and the third being that of the country they...

Q&A: When to introduce a family language to a child who will attend a trilingual school?

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 1, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Language development, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hi I live in Hong Kong where almost everyone is trilingual speaking Cantonese, Mandarin and English. The school I will send my baby, who is five months now, is a trilingual school that will begin at the age of two (Cantonese, Mandarin and English). My...

Q&A: Three family languages – how to pass them all on? What about adding others?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 28, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello! I have a 4-month-old baby boy. I will stay at home with him the first year with a possibility of a few more depending on daycare availability. We live in Quebec, Canada. My native language is Spanish. I'm fluent in English, French, have a basic...

Q&A: Which sign language to teach a child with Down syndrome in a bilingual family?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 10, 2017 | Babies, Challenges, Coaches, Language development, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hi, We are a family of three, and expecting our second child. Our daughter will be nearly four when her baby brother is due in November. I'm Finnish, my husband Irish, and we live in the US at the moment. Even if we use English together, I've used only...

Q&A: How can a single parent raise a bilingual child?

by Mary-Pat O'Malley-Keighran | Aug 31, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Language development, Mary-Pat O'Malley-Keighran, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Single parent

Question Hey, I decided long time ago that I would want to make my possible future children multilingual. I have lived years abroad (English was and still is my study and work language), but recently moved back to Finland. I'm a native Finnish-speaker, but...

Q&A: Who should speak what language when in a family with three languages to raise a trilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Aug 20, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello, We're a multilingual family living in France. My name is Teresa and I'm Spanish, my husband is French and our common language is English (we started our relationship in California). Now we can communicate in French and Spanish also but we...

Q&A: About language exposure, family language strategy, speaking a non-native language and confusion

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 13, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello, I am Italian but I know English very well so I really want to try to teach it to my one-year-old daughter. I speak English to her since she was three months old. In the beginning I thought to use the OPOL method but it's really hard for us,...

Q&A: Family language or a third language for a bilingual child’s education?

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 6, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Literacy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R

Question Hello I would like to ask for your thoughts on our idea to place our 4-and-a-half-year-old in an English-speaking school. We are a French family of four and after living in francophone countries, we moved to Lithuania last Sept. My son enrolled in the...

10 ways to motivate your bilingual baby and toddler to speak

by Rita | Jun 21, 2017 | Babies, How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Toddlers

Starting early, getting into the habit and staying positive are some of the vital components for getting your...

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