Question Dear Rita, Thank you for all the knowledge you share. Your page has been an invaluable source of information. I have one concern I wonder you might be able to help me with. I was born in the US but raised in Italy by Italian parents. My English pronunciation...
Question Hi, My question is: how to choose a language when the mother is bilingual herself? We live in France, so our community language is French, while our home language is Italian. The point is that I'm bilingual myself, Italian-French, so which language should I...
Question Hello! My name is Monique. I’m from the Netherlands originally and living in Australia with two children and my partner who is Australian. At the moment I’m a little lost as to what is the right bilingual system in particular with our youngest boy. He does...
Question Dear Family Language Coaches, Thanks for this service, which has been super helpful to us. Our kids are effectively trilingual – fluent in French, English and Japanese. Us parents are bilingual. One of us speaks to the kids in about 50% French, 50% English,...
As parents we want to do what’s best for our children – this affects how we behave in our everyday lives when it comes to choice of anything from food and clothing to school and the place we live in. In addition, parents of bilingual children have one more aspect to...
Question Hi, I am a first time mom (my baby is 2mo) and both my husband and I are interested in raising our child as multilingual/trilingual. We are both Spanish and living in Ireland, and as per all the reading we have been doing about bilingualism we are speaking...
This is the time of the year when our social media feeds get filled with pictures of families holidaying – either on a relaxing staycation in their own home or out and about in the country or abroad. Whatever way you decide to spend your family holidays, it is always...
Question Hello! My husband and I are monolingual but our 5-year-old is fluent in German thanks to a German immersion school. If she no longer attends the school, so her German exposure decreases from 40 hours/week to 3-5 hours a week, is she in danger of "losing" her...
Question Dear Rita, It is with great pleasure that I read every one of your blog entries. I wasn't brought up bilingual, but throughout education I have become fluent in four languages (and have passive knowledge of two more as well as two "dead" languages); as it...
Question Dear Multilingual Parenting, I have been following your Facebook page for a while and I have really enjoyed the articles that you post. I may not have read all of them, but I have saved most for later when I find time. I am contacting you to seek some advice...