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@floydk Of the other Italian families that live nearby, the only ones that successfully have bilingual kids are the ones with both parents speaking the native tongue, and then kids getting English at school. The rest of the families, myself included, with parents speaking English cause the...

@barsomo I’ll check podcast out thanks

@robtarc Italian is my mother language, I haven’t used it so far because they’ve always gotten so angry about it even early on (my kids both like to get right to the point), and now my 6 year old is more “teachable” and open minded, so seems like it’s a good time to start without so much push...

@w4g Sometimes. It’s hard tho because I need to get a message across and I get blank stares. Do you tell them in Italian and translate in English so they get the message, or just say it in Italian and point till they get it?

@zjmcdon98 I like what you said of finding repetitive/daily actions to insert the language. Makes more sense to them probably than the random sentence I spew out here and there and then they forget.

My kids are 4 and 6, wife speaks only English, at home we speak English. I am bilingual Italian and English. Tried teaching the kids but they always got so frustrated even at a young age. I’m worn seeing if it’s too late. Also we live in the US and they get English everywhere all the time, which...