Question Hello! Thank you for the helpful articles! My husband’s mother is Finnish, and all her family is living in Finland or other parts or Europe. Fortunately, they all speak English well so we all can communicate well. However, my parents are Korean...
Q&A: How to prioritise family languages and raise a trilingual child?
Question Hi, I would like some advice about how to raise our daughter speaking multiple languages. She is only five weeks old but I think we should work out what we're doing now. We live in an English-speaking country. I am English but also fluent in Spanish...
Q&A: How to convince the next generation to maintain the family language?
Question Hello, I have a question: I have successfully raised my children to be bilingual (English and Spanish) in the United States and couldn't be more proud of their fluency in speaking, reading and writing. We spoke it at home and they only use English at school....
Q&A: How to juggle several languages in the home – what if you move?
Question Hello, congratulations for the excellent website! It's great to hear about the experiences of other multilingual families and be able to get advice from a Family Language Coach, as it is often difficult to decide how to handle this subject. I would...
Q&A: When to introduce a family language to a child who will attend a trilingual school?
Question Hi I live in Hong Kong where almost everyone is trilingual speaking Cantonese, Mandarin and English. The school I will send my baby, who is five months now, is a trilingual school that will begin at the age of two (Cantonese, Mandarin and English). My...
Q&A: Three family languages – how to pass them all on? What about adding others?
Question Hello! I have a 4-month-old baby boy. I will stay at home with him the first year with a possibility of a few more depending on daycare availability. We live in Quebec, Canada. My native language is Spanish. I'm fluent in English, French, have a basic...
Q&A: How to prioritise between several family languages for your multilingual child?
Question Dear Sir/Madam Our daughter is almost 15 months old and we are seeking your advice on how to work on her languages. Here is the situation in our family: My native languages are Turkish and Russian. My husband's native language is English. We currently...
Q&A: Should parents ditch English as the family language to support their child’s minority languages?
Question Hi there! First of all, thank you so much for good work on the subject. I have been looking for such a blog for ages and now my wife found it 🙂 We also have a question regarding raising our son to be trilingual. I have read thru all the other cases,...
Q&A: How to maintain a family language once a bilingual child gets immersed in the majority language?
Question Hello We are a family who lives in Catalonia, Spain, we speak to our 2-year-old son in French because before he was even born we already spoke in French since we met up in Switzerland, even though any of us is French, we feel totally confident with it....
Q&A: How to support a bilingual child’s community language and maintain the family language?
Question Hello, I have been reading the posts on this site for a while, and they are amazing! Thanks for the effort. I got some questions regarding my son. Background about us: My wife and I were born and raised in Asia, and we're native Mandarin speakers. We...









