Coaches Archives – Page 14 of 47 – Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: Bilingual parents – how to choose the home language and what to speak with your child?

by Rita Rosenback | Dec 4, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question 1 Hello, I am a bilingual parent (majority English but fluent in Chinese) my wife is majority Chinese but also fluent in English. We currently speak Chinese at home to our 2-year-old son. Our assumption is that he will learn English naturally thru his...

Q&A: What if a parent does not understand the language a bilingual child learns first?

by Rita Rosenback | Dec 1, 2016 | Challenges, Coaches, Language development, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

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...

Q&A: Should a parent stick to the minority language when others are around?

by Rita Rosenback | Nov 27, 2016 | Coaches, Grandparents, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hi Rita, I recently was recommended your site to get advice how to raise my son bilingual. Our family background. We have a 1-year-old boy, who's just starting to form some sounds. My husband is British and I'm Hungarian, we live in the UK. So far I was...

Q&A: How to help a bilingual child with the majority language when using mL@H?

by Rita Rosenback | Nov 24, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Dear Coaches Thank you for the opportunity to ask a question! My name is Irina, I am Russian stay-at-home mum and I live in London with my English husband and our 6-year-old son. My husband knows Russian well, so we have chosen to speak Russian at home to...

Q&A: How many languages can a small child learn at the same time?

by Nick Jaworski | Nov 20, 2016 | Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A The trilingual+ child

Question Hello, I am a native Hindi-speaker and so is my husband. We live in USA and are fluent in English, too. Our nanny is Romanian but speaks (non-native) Spanish. Our 7-month-old daughter spends majority of time with the nanny and my parents, who speak...

Q&A: How can a teenager who understands the family’s minority language also learn to speak it?

by Rita Rosenback | Nov 17, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R

Question Hello! My father was born and raised in Germany. He came to America when he was 17. When people hear that he is from Germany, they ask if I speak German as well. Unfortunately, he never spoke to me and my siblings in German when we were small, so...

Q&A: The majority language parent also speaking a non-native minority language – recommendations?

by Rita Rosenback | Nov 13, 2016 | Coaches, Majority language parent, Non-native language, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Thank you so much for your website and for the opportunity to ask a question. My French husband and I have a 4-month-old daughter who we would like to raise bilingual in Australia. English is my first language, and my French is average. My husband and I...

Q&A: How to get the minority languages of the family back on track?

by Rita Rosenback | Nov 10, 2016 | Coaches, Grandparents, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R, Siblings

Question Hi Rita and team, Could you help me with advice on an upcoming dilemma? We're a family with three languages in the house but every family member's ability and willingness to speak them vary greatly. Dad is Spanish, is fluent in English and understands...

Q&A: How to choose the common language in a multilingual family?

by Rita Rosenback | Nov 6, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Dear Coaches, first of all, thank you for a very helpful website! I have also read the book Rita wrote about raising a bilingual child, which I found very helpful when starting on planning the way with the languages in our family. First the facts about...

Q&A: How to combine OPOL and the needs of an extended multilingual family?

by Rita Rosenback | Nov 3, 2016 | Coaches, Grandparents, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello, I'm very glad I found the article about the 2 parents, 2 languages (2P2L) family language strategy as it touches on some questions that have been bugging me ever since my daughter (18mths) was born. My husband (Spanish) and I (bilingual English/German)...

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