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...
Q&A: Does introducing a new language impact on learning to read and write in another?
Question Hei, in search of advice I have found your webpage and hope you can help me with the following problem: Our family (me, my husband, and two boys, aged 4 and 6.5) are German living in Norway. Both kids go to Norwegian kindergarten/school, so the surrounding...
Q&A: How to choose the common language in a multilingual family?
Question Hello! I would love to get some advice from someone in the same situation because it has been a little bit messy at home. We have a one-year-old, we live in Ireland but his daddy is Turkish and I’m Spanish. I speak with him in Spanish, his daddy speaks with...
Multilingual Family with English and French in Spain
Today I have the pleasure to introduce you to another lovely multilingual family! Mum Bernadette, dad Sam and their 18-month-old daughter Lily live in Barcelona in Spain. Bernadette was born in France to British parents, Sam is British and their daughter is growing up...
Q&A: Questions about teaching a toddler two non-native languages
Question Due to the length of today's question it has been stuctured slightly differently with the answers being added after each subquestion. Nick has answered the main part of the query and Rita has responded to the rest [the name of who has answered will be given...
Q&A: How to choose the languages for a trilingual baby in a multilingual family?
Question 1 Hi, I found your website and thought perhaps you could help/advise. I am pregnant with my first child and my husband and I are already thinking about what languages to speak after the baby is born. I am English, and I grew up in France so I have two mother...
Q&A: How many languages can a small child cope with?
Question 1 Dear Coaches, First of all, thanks for what you're doing, that's really useful for people like me. I have two twins, boy and girl, they are 16 months old, I'm Italian and my wife is Russian, so far we are using the one parent one language approach, it seems...
Q&A: Does reading to a child in a third language work with OPOL?
Question Hi there, I've found your website really helpful. Thank you very much for sharing all that info! I would like to ask for a bit of guidance. I am Spanish (fluent in French and English) and my husband is French (English fluent and good level of Spanish). We...
Q&A: When and how to introduce a third language to a small child who will attend a bilingual school?
Question Hello, I have the following question. My mother language is Bulgarian, my husband is French and we live in France. I am also fluent in English. We have a one-year-old son and I have already start thinking about the number of languages he needs to speak....
Q&A: How to support a toddler’s minority language which a parent has not spoken with the child in the past?
Question Hello Coaches! I grew up in the US, with a Colombian mother and a German father. It was always clear that English was not spoken at home, and my parents followed OPOL very closely. Because I never had formal schooling in Spanish, my spoken Spanish is fluent,...









