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Q&A: How to pass on a family language which the parent is not literate in?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 30, 2017 | Challenges, Coaches, Literacy, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hi, I have a 5-year-old daughter and 1-year-old twins. I was born in Iran and speak Farsi. I moved to the United States at the age of four, so English is my stronger language. My husband only speaks English and we have a nanny who speaks Spanish. We...

Q&A: How to introduce an additional family language to a 4-year-old?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 26, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R

Question Hello, I am after some advice. I am Lithuanian, my husband English. Our son is 4 1/2 years old. My aim was to bring him up as bilingual but somehow it didn't happen. I spoke to him in my native language but not consistently enough. He doesn't really...

Q&A: Is it okay to have a third language as OPOL parents’ common language?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 23, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello, I would like to validate our family approach and maybe get some tips to improve on our current strategy. Our little one is 3 years old. We live in Austria and he is already in the kindergarten so picking up his German skills slowly but surely....

Q&A: How to support a bilingual 3-year-old learning a third language?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 19, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hi! I'm German, my wife is Greek, we live in Greece. Our daughter is 3 1/2 years old. I speak only German to her (and she responds in German). My wife and everybody else speak only Greek to her (and she responds in Greek). My daughter's Greek is...

Q&A: What are the implications of switching the language you speak with your baby?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 16, 2017 | Babies, Challenges, Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Dear Language Coaches, Can you please give any advice on my family's language situation? My wife is fluent in both English and Afrikaans, with HL (home language) Afrikaans. My HL is English and my Afrikaans is good enough for us to successfully...

How to use “monolingual toys” to motivate bilingual children

by Rita | Mar 15, 2017 | How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Practical advice, Toddlers

“How do I introduce another language for my toddler?” “How can I motivate my little one to speak my language?” “How to have fun when practicing the kids’ minority language?” These are questions I often get in the queries sent to our team of Family Language...

Q&A: Should a parent change the language spoken with a child in anticipation of an international move?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 12, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A Moving to another country with a bilingual / multilingual child, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello! We are a Spanish\Catalan family who has lived in China for nearly four years and our child speaks the three languages without no problem as we do OPOL and she goes to a Chinese school. We are planning to move to England in November or so, so we...

Q&A: How to introduce a second minority language to a child?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 9, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello, I have been reading your website with interest and hope you can help me in introducing French to my two-year old son. I am half English and half French and fluent in both languages, although my dominant language is English. My husband is Iraqi...

Q&A: Speaking different languages on different days – a good way to raise a trilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 5, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello, We are a Russian couple living in the Czech Republic and bringing up our 11-month-old daughter multilingual. In addition to Russian and Czech languages, we want her to speak English as well. Both of us speak Czech and English fluently and...

Q&A: Should minority language parents always be consistent about using their mother tongue?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 2, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Dear All, We are an Italian family living in France. We speak Italian at home (two hours at night and on the weekends/holidays) but sometimes in the afternoons after school, when my husband is not there yet, it happens that I speak French as well to my...

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