#introducing a language

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

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

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Hello!

Thank you for the helpful articles!

My husband’s mother is Finnish, and all her family is living in Finland or other parts or Europe. Fortunately, they all speak English well so we all can communicate well. However, my parents are Korean American and although they have lived in the US for almost 40 years, they prefer to speak in Korean, their family language.

My kids are now 11…

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Q&A: How can a parent switch the language spoken with a toddler?

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Hi from Turkey!

I have twins, a boy and a girl and we have been speaking in our mother tongue since they were born, and it’s been 20 months.

I can speak English fluently and I wonder if I start to speak only in English with them to make them bilingual how much do they get confused seeing their father has started to speak a different language they have never heard before.

Their mother…

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Q&A: How to introduce German alongside three other family languages?

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Dear multilingual parenting team,

My name is Wioletta and I am a Pole who has lived in England for 12 years now. My partner is Scottish. We have a 3-month-old daughter to whom I speak exclusively in Polish and he does in English and Scottish.

I am wondering about introducing German to her as I hold a degree in teaching German. I tried speaking it to her before, but it felt quite…

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Q&A: How to introduce English to a toddler in an environment with limited language resources?

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Dear Coaches

I can’t say how grateful I am to you because of this wonderful website!

I and my wife have an 18-month-old daughter. We are both Iranian from North West region in which Azeri (a dialect of Turkish language) is the dominant spoken language. Farsi (Persian) is the only official language of the country being mandatory to be used exclusively in educational system, TV…

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Q&A: How to introduce a third language to a bilingual toddler?

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Hi there,

I have a question about how I should go about introducing a third language. My 2-year-old is currently bilingual (English, Bosnian). I speak both languages, my husband speaks Bosnian and some English, so I am the one who speaks nothing but English all the time, and husband does a combination.

I am also fluent in German and would like to expose my son to that language as…

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Q&A: When and how to introduce a third language to a bilingual child?

Q&A: When and how to introduce a third language to a bilingual child?

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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, we have an au pair at home that only speaks Spanish to our daughter.

Our daughter is exposed to Spanish 80% of the time. She doesn’t say…

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