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Q&A: Bilingual parents – how to choose the home language and what to speak with your child?

Q&A: Bilingual parents – how to choose the home language and what to speak with your child?

by Rita Rosenback | Dec 4, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question 1 Hello, I am a bilingual parent (majority English but fluent in Chinese) my wife is majority Chinese but also fluent in English. We currently speak Chinese at home to our 2-year-old son. Our assumption is that he will learn English naturally thru his...

Q&A: How to choose the common language in a multilingual family?

Q&A: How to choose the common language in a multilingual family?

by Rita Rosenback | Nov 6, 2016 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

  Question Dear Coaches, first of all, thank you for a very helpful website! I have also read the book Rita wrote about raising a bilingual child, which I found very helpful when starting on planning the way with the languages in our family. First the facts about...

Q&A: How to deal with several family languages for a child with speech delay?

Q&A: How to deal with several family languages for a child with speech delay?

by Marianna Du Bosq | Oct 2, 2016 | Challenges, Coaches, Language development, Marianna DuBosq, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy

Question Hi, thanks for sharing important information on your website and being a reference for the parents who are lost in the sea of advice... We have a very specific question regarding our first daughter, who has some speech delay and is exposed to three languages....

Q&A: How to choose the common language in a multilingual family?

Q&A: How to choose the common language in a multilingual family?

by Rita Rosenback | Jun 30, 2016 | Coaches, Family life, Rita R

Question Hello! I would love to get some advice from someone in the same situation because it has been a little bit messy at home. We have a one-year-old, we live in Ireland but his daddy is Turkish and I’m Spanish. I speak with him in Spanish, his daddy speaks with...

Q&A: Our child’s teacher told us to stop speaking a family language – what to do?

Q&A: Our child’s teacher told us to stop speaking a family language – what to do?

by Rita Rosenback | Jun 5, 2016 | Coaches, Rita R

Question Dear Rita, Our family is an international family, I'm from Hungary, my husband is from Italy. My son was born in the USA, and our two girls were born in Germany, but we have moved a lot. My son is nine, he speaks Hungarian (not fluent), Italian (let's say...

Q&A: How to choose  the languages for a trilingual baby in a multilingual family?

Q&A: How to choose the languages for a trilingual baby in a multilingual family?

by Rita Rosenback | May 26, 2016 | Babies, Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question 1 Hi, I found your website and thought perhaps you could help/advise. I am pregnant with my first child and my husband and I are already thinking about what languages to speak after the baby is born. I am English, and I grew up in France so I have two mother...

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