I got an email the other day that I thought I’d share here. It’s about raising your kids in multiple languages and the kids then loosing interest and loosing the language. This is exactly what I’m afraid of when we move to Colombia. What do you do when your kids don’t want to speak the [...]
This great forum question asks if teaching kids 5 languages is just too much? “My family has rather a unique situation. I live in Italy, but the German-speaking part (South Tyrol), so my first language is German, but of course I am fluent in Italian too. My mother is English so I guess I [...]
I 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 [...]