Children by age Archives – Page 5 of 29

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: When to introduce the majority language to a homeschooled child speaking two minority languages?

by Ute Limacher-Riebold | Sep 3, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, School-aged children, Ute Limacher-Riebold

Question Hi! My daughter just turned two and I've been speaking to her in Cantonese since she was born. My husband has been speaking to her in Korean. She currently speaks both languages well. We live in the US, so community language is English. I have yet to...

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: English-only or dual-language school for a trilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Aug 27, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello, We have two pre-schoolers (4 and 1.5 years old respectively) who are growing up as trilinguals. I am Korean, and my husband is Persian. We are also fortunate that we live with our mother-in-law who speaks only Farsi and helps raise our children...

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: How to motivate a school-aged child to speak the family’s minority language?

by Mary-Pat O'Malley-Keighran | Aug 13, 2017 | Coaches, Language development, Mary-Pat O'Malley-Keighran, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, School-aged children

Question Hi, I have an 8-year-old son who had speech problems when he was little. He did not really start talking until maybe two. I was forced to choose a language for his speech therapy classes, I chose English. My problem now is that he understands Spanish...

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,...

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