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Q&A: How to introduce an additional family language to a 4-year-old?

Q&A: How to introduce an additional family language to a 4-year-old?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 26, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Rita R

  Question Hello, I am after some advice. I am Lithuanian, my husband English. Our son is 4 1/2 years old. My aim was to bring him up as bilingual but somehow it didn't happen. I spoke to him in my native language but not consistently enough. He doesn't really...

Q&A: How to reintroduce a minority language to a school-aged child?

Q&A: How to reintroduce a minority language to a school-aged child?

by Nick Jaworski | Nov 12, 2015 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, School-aged children

Question I have a unique situation as many bilingual families tend to have and could use some advice. Here is my background: I grew up in Latin America with a Spanish/English bilingual mother and a Spanish-speaking father. Spanish was my first language but all my...

Bilingual children: (re)introducing a family language

Bilingual children: (re)introducing a family language

by Rita | Apr 23, 2014 | Being the parent in a multilingual family, Challenges, Family life, Practical advice, Toddlers

As the benefits of bilingualism are getting more widely known and the old myths about it dispelled, more and more parents decide to pass on the family languages to their children, giving them the gift of an additional language, fantastic! But what if everything...

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