Q&A Archives – Page 25 of 55 – Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: How to cope with multiple languages in a family?

by Rita Rosenback | May 21, 2015 | Coaches, Practical advice, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question My wife and I are having a baby, we are truly excited but we are scared about the language in how to educate our child. We are of different nationalities, Portuguese and Russian, we live in Germany (since one year) and our common language is English (our...

Q&A: How to teach a non-native language (English) to a toddler

by Rita Rosenback | May 14, 2015 | Babies, Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hello, I am from Poland and the father of a 20 months old daughter. For me and my wife out mother tongue is Polish. I caught up an idea to introduce another language to my child from TV cartoons … let me explain. Here in Poland in national television, there...

Q&A: Can I teach my son Spanish during the weekends?

by Rita Rosenback | May 7, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hello, My son is five and his mother tongue is English, I'm trying to speak in Spanish with him. He is interested in learning Spanish and already knows some words, but what would be the best method to turn him bilingual? He is with me on weekends and I am the...

Q&A: Will parents mixing languages confuse a bilingual child?

by Ute Limacher-Riebold | Apr 23, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Ute Limacher-Riebold

Question Both my husband and I are bilingual in French and English. We have exposed our daughter to both languages and I now realise that we may be confusing her as we both speak both to her... We currently live in an English-speaking country and plan to move back to...

Q&A: How to make best use of videos for a bilingual toddler and how to motivate talking?

by Nick Jaworski | Apr 16, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Toddlers

Question Hello and thank you for the blog! I am a second generation Swedish speaker (Swedish mother) that has only been to Sweden for holidays and I live in Canada. Now I am trying to teach my 3.5-year-old son and 3-month-old daughter Swedish. I've been speaking...

One parent, one language – OPOL is dead, long live OPOL!

by Rita | Apr 15, 2015 | Babies, My book, Practical advice, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy

Which strategy should you use to raise your bilingual child? Ask the question and you can be forgiven for getting all confused with the different viewpoints you are offered both by experts and other parents. Today I will take a closer look at the best-known of the...

Q&A: How to reintroduce English for our bilingual children?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 9, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R

Question I love your blog and helpful tips! I wanted to consult you on an issue if I may. I hope you have some time to help me out with professional advice. I have two kids, ages 4 and 7. We are both originally from Israel and speak Hebrew as mother tongue as well as...

Q&A: How to support all the languages of a trilingual 4-year-old.

by Nick Jaworski | Mar 26, 2015 | Challenges, Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child

Question I am Korean and my wife is Japanese. We have a 4-year-old boy and currently live in the US. My wife and I speak English to each other, although we use broken English (not perfect English). My wife speaks Japanese to my son while I speak Korean to him....

Q&A: Motivating a child to use minority language & using different languages with siblings

by Maria Babin | Mar 19, 2015 | Coaches, Maria Babin, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Siblings

Question My daughter is 2.5 yrs. I have only spoken to her in Spanish her whole life (we live in the US) her mother, a stay-at-home mom, only speaks English. If I press her, she will speak in Spanish, but she always responds in English unless I refuse to listen unless...

Q&A: Passing on a non-native language to a child

by Rita Rosenback | Feb 26, 2015 | Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question I stumbled across this website and found it extremely helpful and interesting. I tried to surf through some of the questions and recent posts but my situation does not seem to be covered. My wife and I are talking about trying to have children in the next few...

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