Coaches Archives – Page 26 of 47 – Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: How can we help our bilingual child become fully fluent in both languages?

by Nick Jaworski | Feb 12, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family

Question My wife and I live in Trinidad & Tobago (my wife is a native, I am German) and we now have a 10 month old that we want to raise bilingually. I speak to him exclusively in German and my wife in English, but I speak to her in English even when he is around. In...

Q&A: Bilingual child minders speaking more than one language – good or bad?

by Rita Rosenback | Feb 5, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hi, I'm a Spanish-speaking mother married to a German speaker, living in Germany. Each of us uses our native language when interacting with our 4-month daughter - basically: one parent one language. I am now looking at kindergartens for my daughter to go to...

Q&A: Choosing a school for a bilingual child – should language decide?

by Nick Jaworski | Jan 29, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, School-aged children

Question What is your position/opinion on a family with a father half Norwegian, half American, a Portuguese mother who studied in France, with 2 year old twin boys living in Portugal, to have the kids in a French school from 3 years old on? I speak Portuguese with...

Q&A: How to handle different character sets when raising bilingual children

by Maria Babin | Jan 15, 2015 | Coaches, Literacy, Maria Babin, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family

Question I love your website! It has helped me so much in learning how to raise our son and daughter in a bilingual home. My husband is Thai, and I am American, and we live in America. I'm a stay-at-home mom, and conversational in Thai, so I speak Thai at home with my...

Q&A: Choice of languages when raising a trilingual child

by Ute Limacher-Riebold | Jan 8, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Ute Limacher-Riebold

Question Dear Multilingual Parenting team, This is a trilingual situation: My husband (native American/good Greek speaker) and I (native German/very good Greek and English speaker) currently live in Greece with our 19 month old son and are planning on moving to...

Q&A: Bilingual parent – which language to speak to the child?

by Rita Rosenback | Dec 18, 2014 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question I would like to tell you a little bit about my story because I would love to get some advice from you. I am a Spanish native speaker married to a South African whose mother tongue is Afrikaans, although he is bilingual, he can also speak English. We currently...

Q&A: Watching cartoons in different languages – good or bad for bilingual children?

by Rita Rosenback | Dec 11, 2014 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question I am Egyptian so I speak Arabic and my husband is Italian. We speak together in English but we don’t speak English with our son. In his daycare they use English and Arabic and a little French. My 3 year-old son is speaking both but he is much, much better at...

Q&A: What if a bilingual child’s majority language is not as advanced as the minority one?

by Ute Limacher-Riebold | Dec 4, 2014 | Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Ute Limacher-Riebold

Question I’m American and speak English to my children (now aged 12 & 9). We live in the Netherlands. My husband is Dutch by birth (and speaks Dutch to them), but his mom is Spanish/Catalan and his dad is Czech/Slovakian (but also speak only Dutch to the kids)....

Q&A: What to do about bilingual teenagers mixing languages?

by Rita Rosenback | Nov 20, 2014 | Challenges, Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R, Teenagers

Question: Our children have grown up learning both family languages and they are now teenagers. We are happy they can speak both languages, but are horrified by how much they mix the languages when they speak to each other. When they speak to people who only speak one...

Q&A: Can a passive language speaker help a child become bilingual?

by Maria Babin | Nov 13, 2014 | Coaches, Maria Babin, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family

Question I would like to hear what your thoughts are about this: Languages: minority language (ml) - Spanish, majority language (ML) English Strategy: One parent, one language (OPOL) Country: USA Child: 1 year old Let’s say we found someone who could babysit our kid 4...

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