My wife is from Colombia, and I’m from Belgium (from the part where we speak Flemish which is the same language as Dutch). Between us, we speak English (we lived 5 years in New York) and Spanish (I lived a year and a half in Colombia and my Spanish is reasonable). It’s about 50/50, we [...]
Tagged bilingual kids, minority languageI vividly remember the first multilingual kid I ever met. It was in London, in or around 2001. The memory gives me motivation to make the effort with my own kids. I was visiting the house of a friend of a friend. The father was Japanese, the mother French (and they were living in London). [...]
Today I’m starting this blog. Our kid is about 19 months old, she’s not really talking yet (blabbing a lot thought), but when she does it will probably (?) be in Spanish and in Dutch, the two languages we’re raising her in. I think she might speak English too since we speak a lot of [...]