trilingual Archives – Page 4 of 17 – Multilingual Parenting

Q&A: How to introduce a family language to older trilingual children?

by Rita Rosenback | Apr 30, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hi, We are a family of four living in Germany. Father is British, mum is Norwegian but moved to France at 16. Kids (girl 10 and boy 7) are in a French school, but are also thought German every day as a mother tongue. They are completely trilingual,...

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 support a bilingual 3-year-old learning a third language?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 19, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hi! I'm German, my wife is Greek, we live in Greece. Our daughter is 3 1/2 years old. I speak only German to her (and she responds in German). My wife and everybody else speak only Greek to her (and she responds in Greek). My daughter's Greek is...

Q&A: Should a parent change the language spoken with a child in anticipation of an international move?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 12, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A Moving to another country with a bilingual / multilingual child, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello! We are a Spanish\Catalan family who has lived in China for nearly four years and our child speaks the three languages without no problem as we do OPOL and she goes to a Chinese school. We are planning to move to England in November or so, so we...

Q&A: How to introduce a second minority language to a child?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 9, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello, I have been reading your website with interest and hope you can help me in introducing French to my two-year old son. I am half English and half French and fluent in both languages, although my dominant language is English. My husband is Iraqi...

Q&A: Speaking different languages on different days – a good way to raise a trilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Mar 5, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Rita R

Question Hello, We are a Russian couple living in the Czech Republic and bringing up our 11-month-old daughter multilingual. In addition to Russian and Czech languages, we want her to speak English as well. Both of us speak Czech and English fluently and...

Q&A: Is a dual-language school which introduces a third language the right choice for a bilingual child?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 26, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hi, I have a 4-year-old son. We live in Los Angeles. I'm originally from India and native Hindi speaker. My husband is American and monolingual (English). Since my son's birth I've been on a mission to teach him Hindi. I'm proud to say that he...

Bilingual children – no language confusion!

by Rita | Jan 18, 2017 | Bilingualism, Challenges, Language development, Myths, Non-native language

We have answered more than two hundred questions on the topic of raising bilingual children, and the worry that gets mentioned most frequently is whether kids growing up to learn more than one language can get confused by the languages in their family and...

Q&A: Choosing the school language for a bilingual child – one of the home languages or a third one?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 15, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hello, My daughter is two years old. We live in Beirut, Lebanon. Our community language is Arabic. Our schools provide education either in English or in French. Some schools teach both English and French languages equally. Since birth, my daughter was...

Q&A: How to maintain and support minority languages in a multilingual family?

by Rita Rosenback | Jan 12, 2017 | Coaches, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello, I am currently pregnant with our first child and my husband and I are trying to make a family language plan. I am American so my native language is English, but I also know a good amount of French and a few words and phrases in Ewe. My husband is...

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