Bilingual baby

Q&A: How many languages can/should parents introduce to a baby?

by Rita Rosenback | Jun 15, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hello My wife and I are expecting and starting to think about how many languages we want teach our kids. Basically, our question boils down to, is it unrealistic to try for Bulgarian, English, Spanish, & Mandarin fluency, or should we just try for...

Q&A: How to support a bilingual child’s community language and maintain the family language?

by Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett | Jun 8, 2017 | Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, Babies, Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Toddlers

Question Hello, I have been reading the posts on this site for a while, and they are amazing! Thanks for the effort. I got some questions regarding my son. Background about us: My wife and I were born and raised in Asia, and we're native Mandarin speakers. We...

Q&A: How is a baby’s language development impacted by a nanny’s language and accent?

by Mary-Pat O'Malley-Keighran | Jun 1, 2017 | Babies, Challenges, Coaches, Language development, Mary-Pat O'Malley-Keighran

Question Hello We are a Greek family living in Lausanne, Switzerland. We speak Greek at home and French at work. When my wife will return to work after her maternity leave, our daughter will be 8 months old. We plan to hire a full-time nanny until our daughter...

Q&A: Should parents expose a trilingual-to-be baby to all languages from the start?

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

Question Hello! My husband and I are expecting our first child, a boy, in June. My husband is Scottish, I am German and we live in rural Japan working at an international university. We only moved here last year and cannot really speak Japanese, although we...

Q&A: How to pass on and maintain three languages in a family facing a possible move?

by Rita Rosenback | May 25, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Q&A Moving to another country with a bilingual / multilingual child, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello! I have a question about raising a trilingual child and I need some guidance on that! My name is Daniela. My first language is Brazilian Portuguese. My Indian husband is a Hindi-speaker. We live in the United States where I am a PhD student. We...

Q&A: Changing the language parents speak with a 1-year-old – is it too late and how to do it?

by Rita Rosenback | May 21, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Language development, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hi there, I would like to ask for your advice. My husband is Portuguese and I am Hungarian and we live in England. Our daughter is almost one year old, and we mostly speak to her in English. She does hear conversations in both other languages, when we...

Q&A: Big sister’s concerns about the language choices for her little sister

by Rita Rosenback | May 18, 2017 | Babies, Challenges, Coaches, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, Siblings

Question Hey there! I am not a parent, just an older sister whose parents are struggling with handling this whole bi-/tri-/quadri-lingual situation. All they ever say is "don't forget Chinese", and it seems like they're dismissing some other important concerns...

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 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...

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