In this section, you can find Q&As on how to motivate your child to speak a language.

When a child grows up with three or more languages the challenges can be more pronounced than when only two languages are involved. For example, how to adapt the family language strategy when circumstances change and a third or fourth language is added? The solutions that work well for bilingual families, such as using the one person, one language family language strategy, are not straight-forward to apply if a child grows up in a multilingual environment. Nevertheless, children do grow up to successfully speak three, four, or even more languages. It can be done.

Q&A: How to help a toddler exposed to several languages with her speech development?

Q&A: How to help a toddler exposed to several languages with her speech development?

  Question Hi, My first language is Arabic, my 2-year-old child is American. Me and my daughter live in Netherlands where people speak Dutch. I don't know which language my daughter will end up speaking. I talk to her mostly in English, but sometimes in Arabic. I...

Q&A: How to add English as a third language for a 1-year-old?

Q&A: How to add English as a third language for a 1-year-old?

Question Dear coaches, Thank you for the great website and taking time to help parents. Reading your answers to others' questions gave me some general ideas about my concerns but still I have some topics in mind to ask you. So first I give a summary of our situation....

Q&A: How to pass on two heritage languages and an additional language to your children

Q&A: How to pass on two heritage languages and an additional language to your children

  Question Hello!  My name is Caroline and I am a native English speaker who has since become nearly fluent in Spanish. My husband is a native Korean speaker who speaks English as his second language. I have been studying Korean and am at an intermediate level....