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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 choose a child’s school and parents’ common language in a family on the move?

by Rita Rosenback | Jun 22, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello! I am currently pregnant with my first child (boy) and due to give birth in two months. I come from Pakistan and my husband is German. My mother tongue is Urdu whilst my husband's is German. English is the common language at home with my husband...

Q&A: Three languages and sign language – too much for a two-year old?

by Rita Rosenback | Jun 18, 2017 | Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hello Looking for a suggestion for introducing my second languages to my toddler. My husband and I are native English speakers. I was a Spanish teacher for five years, so I speak it well, but I'm definitely missing lots of cultural background and...

Q&A: How many languages can/should parents introduce to a baby?

by Rita Rosenback | Jun 15, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hello My wife and I are expecting and starting to think about how many languages we want teach our kids. Basically, our question boils down to, is it unrealistic to try for Bulgarian, English, Spanish, & Mandarin fluency, or should we just try for...

Q&A: How to choose the main school language for a trilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Jun 4, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Dear all, we are a bilingual family. My husband speaks English to our 3-year-old son, I speak German to him. My husband and I speak English at home, our son speaks German to me and English to my husband. We live in the Netherlands. At daycare our son...

Q&A: Should parents expose a trilingual-to-be baby to all languages from the start?

by Rita Rosenback | May 28, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello! My husband and I are expecting our first child, a boy, in June. My husband is Scottish, I am German and we live in rural Japan working at an international university. We only moved here last year and cannot really speak Japanese, although we...

Q&A: How to pass on and maintain three languages in a family facing a possible move?

by Rita Rosenback | May 25, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Q&A Moving to another country with a bilingual / multilingual child, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello! I have a question about raising a trilingual child and I need some guidance on that! My name is Daniela. My first language is Brazilian Portuguese. My Indian husband is a Hindi-speaker. We live in the United States where I am a PhD student. We...

Q&A: Questions about raising a trilingual child and balancing the exposure to three languages

by Rita Rosenback | May 14, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Dear Rita, first of all, I'm VERY happy I've stumbled across this website! It's really interesting to read other parents' stories and your replies, and great to see so many people are in similar situations. This is our trilingual situation: My wife is...

Q&A: How to pass on two minority languages in a multilingual environment?

by Rita Rosenback | May 11, 2017 | Coaches, Language development, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello, My name is Maria, I am Italian and together with my Libyan husband we have a 10-month-old son. Together we live in Malta, where our son was born. Our common language is English, since I do not understand Arabic and my husband doesn't understand...

Q&A: How to introduce a family language to older trilingual children?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 30, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hi, We are a family of four living in Germany. Father is British, mum is Norwegian but moved to France at 16. Kids (girl 10 and boy 7) are in a French school, but are also thought German every day as a mother tongue. They are completely trilingual,...

Q&A: When and how to introduce a third language to a bilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 23, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hi, This website has helped me so much, it's wonderful! We are a bilingual family and live in the US. I only speak Spanish to my 15 months old and my husband English most of the time (he is American, I'm Latina). Both my husband and I work full time,...

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