School-aged children Archives – Page 4 of 9

Q&A: How to choose a child’s school and parents’ common language in a family on the move?

by Rita Rosenback | Jun 22, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello! I am currently pregnant with my first child (boy) and due to give birth in two months. I come from Pakistan and my husband is German. My mother tongue is Urdu whilst my husband's is German. English is the common language at home with my husband...

Q&A: How to choose the main school language for a trilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Jun 4, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Dear all, we are a bilingual family. My husband speaks English to our 3-year-old son, I speak German to him. My husband and I speak English at home, our son speaks German to me and English to my husband. We live in the Netherlands. At daycare our son...

Q&A: How to choose the school language for a bilingual child in a multilingual society?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 20, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello, I am from a small town in South Africa where the two dominant languages are English and Afrikaans. I have been English my whole life but married an Afrikaans man. We have a two-year-old who has been exposed to both languages from birth but he...

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: Is a dual-language school which introduces a third language the right choice for a bilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 26, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hi, I have a 4-year-old son. We live in Los Angeles. I'm originally from India and native Hindi speaker. My husband is American and monolingual (English). Since my son's birth I've been on a mission to teach him Hindi. I'm proud to say that he...

Q&A: Choosing the school language for a bilingual child – one of the home languages or a third one?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 15, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello, My daughter is two years old. We live in Beirut, Lebanon. Our community language is Arabic. Our schools provide education either in English or in French. Some schools teach both English and French languages equally. Since birth, my daughter was...

Q&A: How to support a small bilingual child with the school languages?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 8, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hi The best way to learn a language? We live in the country (Spain), of course. Well this is our problem: We have a son who is three and a half. He was born in Barcelona. We have lived here for many years. I'm English and his mother is Danish. We both...

Q&A: What to do when a bilingual school-aged child’s minority language is the stronger one?

by Rita Rosenback | Dec 22, 2016 | Coaches, Language development, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello, I wonder if you have any recommendations. My daughter is seven and has lived in Italy since she was 8 months old, however she didn’t start going to school till she was 5. At home I (mom) speak to her in English only and everyone else (including...

Q&A: Bilingual school – a good way to add a third language for a bilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 17, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hi, I am a first time mom (my baby is 2mo) and both my husband and I are interested in raising our child as multilingual/trilingual. We are both Spanish and living in Ireland, and as per all the reading we have been doing about bilingualism we are speaking...

Q&A: Bilingual homeschooling – how to successfully integrate more than one language?

by Rita Rosenback | Jun 12, 2016 | Coaches, Language development, Literacy, Non-native language, Rita R, School-aged children, Toddlers

Question Dear Multilingual Parenting, I have been following your Facebook page for a while and I have really enjoyed the articles that you post. I may not have read all of them, but I have saved most for later when I find time. I am contacting you to seek some advice...

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