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Q&A: When others object to you speaking a non-native language with your children
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Hello
I´m a native speaker of Spanish and fluent in English, currently raising a 14-month-old boy in English. I speak to him in English 100% of the time while my husband speaks in Spanish (the community language as we live in Spain).
My question is how likely it is that my son will become bilingual since I am not a native speaker of English. Most of what I’ve read is about native…
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Q&A: How can a single parent raise a bilingual and bicultural child?
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Hello!
I’m expecting my first child in February. I’m going to be a single parent – my son’s father is Mexican and I’m white. My son’s father will not be in his life whatsoever, but I want my son to know his culture and know who he is on the inside.
I want him to grow up speaking as much Spanish as possible just like his side of the family. I would like him to be fluent in Spanish one…
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Q&A: How to choose the languages for a baby in a multilingual family?
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Dear Family Language Coaches,
I have a question about raising our first born (due in two months) multi-lingual which I was hoping you could kindly help us with. My wife is Ukrainian and speaks Russian (native) and English (not fully fluent, but quite good – perhaps level B2). I am Dutch and speak Dutch (native) and English (fully fluent). Together we speak English to each other. I…
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Q&A: How to add English as a third language for a 1-year-old?
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Dear coaches,
Thank you for the great website and taking time to help parents. Reading your answers to others’ questions gave me some general ideas about my concerns but still I have some topics in mind to ask you. So first I give a summary of our situation.
I am Iranian, and Persian is my mother tongue. My husband is Turkish. and Turkish is his mother language. We live in Turkey and…
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Q&A: Which language(s) should a multilingual mother speak with her child?
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Dear Multilingual Parenting team,
I am still in my early pregnancy, but like all ambitious mother to be, I’m already considering all kinds of scenarios regarding the baby’s future education. As a multilingual person, which language shall I speak to my baby is one of the most important question.
I’m native Chinese who has immigrated to the US in my mid-twenties. I speak quite fluent…
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Q&A: If a child loses a language are all the benefits of bilingualism gone?
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Hei!
I am a German single mom to a soon 4-year-old boy. He was born in Finland and we’ve been living here all the time. At home I only speak German to him. He started to attend Finnish daycare at age 1.5 (part time), full time from age 2.5. Although his language development is naturally a bit behind his monolingual peers, he speaks both languages with ease and can switch between them…
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Q&A: About language exposure, family language strategy, speaking a non-native language and confusion
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Hello,
I am Italian but I know English very well so I really want to try to teach it to my one-year-old daughter. I speak English to her since she was three months old. In the beginning I thought to use the OPOL method but it’s really hard for us, because my husband doesn’t speak English at all and I felt I was excluding him.
Now I’m using English with my daughter just when we play…
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