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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? https://multilingualparenting.com/2017/03/26/qa-how-to-introduce-an-additional-family-language-to-a-4-year-old/

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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 understand it apart of a few words/phrases that I use with him. I really want to change this.

I want my son to speak my language so he…

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Bilingual children: (re)introducing a family language

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 doesn’t go to plan and your baby grows up to be a toddler, school kid or teenager who can or will not speakyour language? How can you…

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