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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: When and how to introduce the concept of different languages to a small bilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | May 4, 2017 | Coaches, Language and bilingualism, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hello! What age is appropriate to introduce the concept of language to a child? I don't mean teaching the child a second language but teaching him that there are different languages and that each one has a name. We use OPOL at home with our 3-year-old...

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,...

Q&A: How to pass on two minority languages, one of them being a rare language?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 2, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello I am wondering what strategy to take. I am a native English-speaker who grew up bilingual in English and Assyrian. My husband is German, but speaks English to a native level. I am the stepmother to his lovely 6-year-old (monolingual) German...

Q&A: How to pass on a family language which the parent is not literate in?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 30, 2017 | Challenges, Coaches, Literacy, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hi, I have a 5-year-old daughter and 1-year-old twins. I was born in Iran and speak Farsi. I moved to the United States at the age of four, so English is my stronger language. My husband only speaks English and we have a nanny who speaks Spanish. We...

Q&A: What are the implications of switching the language you speak with your baby?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 16, 2017 | Babies, Challenges, Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Dear Language Coaches, Can you please give any advice on my family's language situation? My wife is fluent in both English and Afrikaans, with HL (home language) Afrikaans. My HL is English and my Afrikaans is good enough for us to successfully...

Q&A: Should minority language parents always be consistent about using their mother tongue?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 2, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Dear All, We are an Italian family living in France. We speak Italian at home (two hours at night and on the weekends/holidays) but sometimes in the afternoons after school, when my husband is not there yet, it happens that I speak French as well to my...

Q&A: How to do OPOL as parents if you are used to mixing languages?

by Rita Rosenback | Feb 16, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello My wife is Australian, I am Flemish (Dutch-speaking Belgium) and that is also where we live. We are expecting and want our child to be bilingual English-Dutch to pass on both of our cultural identities. Nowadays, since my wife's Dutch has become...

Q&A: “Am I a poor parent for not speaking the minority language with our child?”

by Rita Rosenback | Feb 9, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hello I have question and maybe this may seem silly, but do you think that the fact that parents who don’t teach or raise their kids as native bilinguals are “poor parents”? My son is 7. He speaks predominantly English at home but can communicate a...

Grandparents as language support for bilingual children

by Rita | Feb 8, 2017 | Grandparents, How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language

As parents raising bilingual children we know how important it is to give our kids as varied an exposure to their languages as possible. This becomes even more crucial if we are passing on a minority language. Building a network of people who can support us in this...

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