Coaches Archives – Page 15 of 47 – Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: Can a child become fluent in a language after the age of six or seven?

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 30, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R

Question Hi Rita We're a monolingual (Spanish) couple living in Spain. Nevertheless, we're are raising our 4-year-old daughter multilingual. I always speak English to her and to my husband. But I speak French to her one hour a day. My husband speaks Spanish to her and...

Q&A: How to support a trilingual child when the minority languages are similar?

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 27, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Dear Rita, My wife and I read your book and we strongly recommend it for other multilingual families. My wife is Russian, I am Serbian and we live in London. We are sticking to the golden rule that mother speaks exclusively Russian to him, daddy speaks...

Q&A: How to motivate a reluctant 3-year-old to speak the minority language?

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 23, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R, Siblings

Question Dear Family Language Coaches. We live in South Africa, I grew up in Germany and my husband grew up Afrikaans. Our daughter is three years old and I speak German with her, while my husband (and the rest of the family) speak Afrikaans. At kindergarten she is...

Q&A: Which language to speak when in a multilingual family?

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 20, 2016 | Coaches, Family life, Non-native language, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Dear Rita and Multilingual Parenting Team, First of all, I would like to thank you and the rest of the team for a great website, it has been very useful since I started investigating about multilingual education. I am sending you our questions because I could...

Q&A: What is the best way for one parent to pass on two languages?

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 16, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello Family Language Coaches, I have a question on one parent passing on two languages: I was born in the US to Korean parents. My parents spoke English to me instead of their heritage language, even going so far as to read to me in English every...

Q&A: In which language should children watch films in an OPOL-family?

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 13, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hello everyone! My partner and I bring up our children (3 and 4 years old) bilingually. I speak English as I am from England and my partner speaks German as he comes from Germany. The children’s biological father also speaks German to the children as he is...

Q&A: How to get a toddler to use the minority language?

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 9, 2016 | Coaches, Language development, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hello, My name is May. I'm Indonesian and my husband is German. We live in Germany. I have a daughter, she is 22 months old now and we will have the second one soon. I speak Indonesian with my daughter and my husband speaks German with her. My husband...

Q&A: How to maximise the exposure to two minority languages?

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

Question Dear Rita, Thank you for all the knowledge you share. Your page has been an invaluable source of information. I have one concern I wonder you might be able to help me with. I was born in the US but raised in Italy by Italian parents. My English pronunciation...

Q&A: How to deal with several family languages for a child with speech delay?

by Marianna Du Bosq | Oct 2, 2016 | Challenges, Coaches, Language development, Marianna DuBosq, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy

Question Hi, thanks for sharing important information on your website and being a reference for the parents who are lost in the sea of advice... We have a very specific question regarding our first daughter, who has some speech delay and is exposed to three languages....

Q&A: Should a parent not fluent in the minority language switch to the majority one?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 29, 2016 | Coaches, Language development, Majority language parent, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hi Rita! My husband and I are scouring the Internet in hopes of finding some guidance and we'd love your thoughts! Our son is 13 months old. My husband is Iranian and I'm not. He speaks both Farsi and English fluently and I'm fluent in English and...

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