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Q&A: Will a small child lose a language if the exposure time is drastically reduced?

Q&A: Will a small child lose a language if the exposure time is drastically reduced?

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 7, 2016 | Challenges, Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R

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...

Losing or never learning a family language – how does it feel?

Losing or never learning a family language – how does it feel?

by Rita | Apr 16, 2014 | Challenges, Language, Language and bilingualism

  When I tell people what I do and what my book “Bringing up a Bilingual Child” is about, I regularly get to hear comments such as “That’s great!” followed by “Oh, I wish I could speak my parent’s language.” It would be so beneficial for parents who are...

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