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, My name is Roberta and I have only recently found out about your website and signed up to the newsletter and I'm hoping you can help with a query I have. I'm Italian and my husband is English and we live in England together we our 6-month-old son. He...
Question Dear Rita, It is with great pleasure that I read every one of your blog entries. I wasn't brought up bilingual, but throughout education I have become fluent in four languages (and have passive knowledge of two more as well as two "dead" languages); as it...
Today I can present to you another delightful multilingual family: Lisa, Ed, Joshua and Francesca who speak English as a family and live in Spain. You may already know Lisa as the driving force behind the site Cooking With Languages and the children's activity...
Question Hello! We moved as an English speaking family to Spain when my daughter was one, at the time none of us could speak Spanish and it was pretty hard. We naturally spoke English in the house and we still do. My daughter did not speak in sentences until...
Today I have the pleasure to introduce you to another lovely multilingual family! Mum Bernadette, dad Sam and their 18-month-old daughter Lily live in Barcelona in Spain. Bernadette was born in France to British parents, Sam is British and their daughter is growing up...
I am delighted to introduce you to another multilingual family: Giovanna’s lovely family from Luxembourg. Giovanna is Italian by birth and her husband is Flemish (Belgian from the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium). They have two children (nine and ten years old) who...
Question Hello, I am Franco-Mexican and my husband is Dutch. We have two daughters and live in the Netherlands. I only speak Spanish to them, my husband only Dutch, and together we speak English. This works perfectly for us, they don't mix up, but... lately my oldest...
Welcome the first part of an exciting new series 'Multilingual Family', where I interview families from different parts of the world. I have the pleasure to introduce you to the lovely family of Karolina, Oscar and their 2-year-old, gorgeous daughter Natalia. They...
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It's a great joy and honour to have Katey Howes join my blog as a guest today! Katey is a mom of three, children’s author and literacy advocate who blogs about raising kids who love to read at Kateywrites. Katey is a native English speaker who studied in Madrid, and...