Question Hi, My question is, do you need to set aside time for language lessons either by parents or professional for the minority language? My 3-year-old daughter speaks Spanish (we live in Spain) and English (minority language) and she is well on her way to...
We have answered more than two hundred questions on the topic of raising bilingual children, and the worry that gets mentioned most frequently is whether kids growing up to learn more than one language can get confused by the languages in their family and...
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...
Question Hello, I just ran into your website and I loved it. I have a son who is 1.5 years old. I am Albanian, my husband is Spanish. We want to raise our son bilingual, so our plan is that I speak with him in Albanian only (minority language), and my husband...
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...
As parents of bilingual children, many of us have been there: finding ourselves in a situation where others give us advise on what is best for our children when it comes to their languages, and how we should behave as a family. Sometimes we get brilliant ideas on how...
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...
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....
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...
Question Hello, I have a question concerning a triligual environment in which my daughter (9 month old baby) lives. I am Serbian and my husband is French and we are currently living in France. I am speaking my native language to our baby and my husband his. She is...