Question I love your website! It has helped me so much in learning how to raise our son and daughter in a bilingual home. My husband is Thai, and I am American, and we live in America. I'm a stay-at-home mom, and conversational in Thai, so I speak Thai at home with my...
The custom is to make resolutions for the new year, but as we all know, most of them fall by the wayside well before the shops start stocking chocolate for Valentine’s Day. As a parent of a bilingual child, what could you do instead? My advice is to forget about...
2014 What a fantastic year it has been! There have been so many highlights - here are the main ones: My book “Bringing up a Bilingual Child” came out in June and I am so happy and humbled by all the positive response I have had from my readers. The feeling of having...
Question I would like to tell you a little bit about my story because I would love to get some advice from you. I am a Spanish native speaker married to a South African whose mother tongue is Afrikaans, although he is bilingual, he can also speak English. We currently...
Your first-born is on the way to become bilingual – you are so happy to see that both languages are progressing well. You have managed to arrange enough exposure for both languages and look forward to repeating the “procedure” with your next child. It should not be...
Question I’m American and speak English to my children (now aged 12 & 9). We live in the Netherlands. My husband is Dutch by birth (and speaks Dutch to them), but his mom is Spanish/Catalan and his dad is Czech/Slovakian (but also speak only Dutch to the kids)....
Question: Our children have grown up learning both family languages and they are now teenagers. We are happy they can speak both languages, but are horrified by how much they mix the languages when they speak to each other. When they speak to people who only speak one...
Bringing up a child to speak more than one language is not an easy task. There are days when we need all the encouragement we can find to keep going. So I asked parents what they would like to say to other mothers and fathers of bilingual children – and here is a...
1 – Ei tapahdu itsestään Lapsista ei tule kaksikielisiä kuin itsestään. ”Lapset oppivat kieliä yhtä vaivattomasti kuin sienet imevät vettä” on sitkeä myytti, kuten myös olettamus että lapset oppivat kaikki kielet joita he säännöllisesti kuulevat – kumpikaan ei ole...
Question Hello, I will soon become a proud grandmother to my son's first child and I wonder how I could help in teaching him Finnish. My son knows conversational Finnish but his strongest language is English and his wife speaks English. They would very much like their...