Question Hi Family Language Coaches, Thanks for sharing so many useful tips and resources – I just discovered your website's Q&A section and I really love it! I have a question about raising a trilingual child. I was...
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Q&A: Do bilingual parents have to choose one of their languages to speak with a child?
Question Hi, I am Wadha from Kuwait. My partner and I live in Kuwait (Arabic is used in the community) and are bilingual parents: Arabic native speakers, but we both speak English as a second language. We have a two-month-old child and are planning to send her...
Q&A: Should parents raising bilingual children avoid code-switching?
Question Hello, My name is Benedicte, and my husband and I are expecting a baby boy in the next few weeks. We live in France and are both bilingual French-English. My husband was raised by an American father and French mother. I was raised by French-speaking...
Q&A: How to introduce a family language to older children?
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 convince a 3-year-old to answer in the minority language?
Question Hello I'm British, living in France for the past 13 years. I speak French to my French husband, and we have two girls, a 3-year-old and a new-born. Our 3-year-old was a late speaker (first words at 17 months) and I am the only person who speaks English...
Q&A: Which language will be dominant for a bilingual baby being exposed to two languages?
Question Hello! I have a 6-month-old son with my husband. We live in the US, and my mother-in-law speaks only Spanish to my son while she is taking care of him (M-F, 7-4:30pm). My husband is from Mexico, and I am from the United States. My husband and I speak...
Q&A: The other parent does not understand your language – should you speak it with your baby?
Question Hello, I’m so happy to stumble upon this website. It is lovely to see that we are not the only one with many MANY questions about raising a multilingual individual and that there is help out there 🙂 Here is our situation: Our son is 4 months old and we...
Q&A: How to support a bilingual child with dyslexia?
Question Hello, Can you please advise us on the following with regards to a 7-year-old? The boy’s mother is Australian, the father who he visits is Australian. His step father is from Pakistan and speaks Urdu, English and Arabic. The boy has been to Arabic...
Q&A: How to support a child’s minority language which you are not fluent in?
Question Hi! My question might be a bit complicated. I have a 17-month-old daughter. I speak Hungarian to her, my husband speaks Spanish and we speak in English with each other. We currently live in Hungary and the main language of the community is Hungarian....
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...