multilingual parenting

Quick background: my husband and I do OPOL, English and Czech respectively. The community language is German. My husband and I use English to talk to each other but only use our native languages with the kids. We will speak German to the kids only if they have a friend around who doesn't speak...

Hi everyone. I'm currently doing OPOL. I'm originally from Cameroon but grew up in Belgium. Went to a French school so it's my first language then years later we moved to the US. I stopped speaking French regularly for over a decade because of the environment but I picked it back up once I got...

Hi All - my wife is German and I am Egyptian - we lived in London and now we live in Denmark. Our kids speak four languages and we have encouraged them to express themselves with languages. They have tremendous capabilities to soak soo much in. Especially during the early years- but just...

I'm a single mom in a country where the majority language isn't English (Hungary). I speak almost exclusively English at home with my kids. When my older one, now 5, first learned to talk, English was definitely her stronger language. But now that she's in public school and uses Hungarian all...

If you are interested in helping scientists understanding how multiracial and multicultural children gain their social identity, you may want to take part in a study from the Duke Identity and Diversity Lab, located in Durham, NC. Our lab is broadly interested in relations among social...

Having read every book in our home frontwards and backwards at least 500 times, we've turned to e-books. We've found some good options, but I'd love to find more! We read in English, French and Italian. My kids are 4 and 5. Here are some resources I've found for e-books in non-English...

My native language is Turkish, my wife's is Bosnian and we have been living in Sweden for nearly the past 6 years. My wife learned some Turkish but we speak English among each other, as we have always been. Unfortunately we still don't speak Swedish very well since we work in international...

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...

Hi all, hope you are having a good day. as mentioned we are raising our daughter with OPOL method (Spanish, Mandarin, English). She is now exposed to bilingual in nursery (English and Spanish) and is doing fine understanding almost all at the age of 2, albeit doesn’t speak much yet. I am quite...

Hello. I've been studying Genki (text books, vocabulary is more focused for college students) combined with AJATT (immersion) and other stuff for a while now, I'm not very fluent or anything but try my best. In my home we watch a lot of anime, my husband always put it in english dubs, but when...

Both my partner and I are Vietnamese who live in the US. We both speak English and Vietnamese fluently and we want to have two children who can speak and write both languages. Our question is: which is more difficult to raise as bilingual, 2 siblings or only child. After meeting our friends’ 2...

Hi everyone, I’ve been following this sub for a while now! I’d love a bit of advice/ someone to calm my nerves. I amAmerican and I am married to a Spaniard. We live in a very small Spanish (Galician) city, just north of Portugal. We are currently following OPOL, so I speak to my (8mo) old...

Hello! I'm curious about how people do when teaching how to read in a multilingual home (3 languages). All our languages share same alphabet :), but pronunciation is different. Did you start with only one? two at the same time? how did it go? We have books in all three languages, and we do...

First off - I’m sorry if this question has been asked before! I tried searching but didn’t find an answer. :) I’m currently pregnant with my first! I’m American, my husband is Spanish, and we live in Spain. We both speak both English and Spanish. I’m interested in books that go into detail on...

My 4 year old knows 4 languages, 3 fluently. One of the three (Language A) is the language spoken at preschool and by his peers. However, he's generally a shy child and hesitant to communicate with his teachers and classmates. So despite understanding Language A very well and possessing a wide...

My husband (Ecuadorian) and I (American) live in the US and have tried to do OPOL since our daughter was born. Originally she picked up Spanish very well and could speak fluently with both of us since she was about 2 years old. Occasionally her Spanish has fallen behind English, but we’ve been...

Hi! We have a one year old baby and we’ve been following OPOL since he was in my womb. I speak Spanish to him 95% of the time and my husband speaks Slovak absolutely all the time to him. We both speak English to each other and we live in an English speaking country. I feel that OPOL works fine...

Hi! My fiancée and I have always wanted our children to speak English and Spanish. She is the daughter of Mexican immigrants, I'm American, but lived in Central America for two years and picked up Spanish there. She learned Spanish at home (she didn't speak any English till kindergarten but...

And the funniest thing was seeing him assign a language to my 7 month old. My partner and his family all speak greek together so naturally my daughter will also eventually speak greek in that environment. The kid however is used to speaking greek with adults and german with kids, and a third...

My husband and I speak Chinese Mandarin and are living in the US (obviously, community language is English). We are both bilingual and wish to raise our child English/Mandarin bilingual as well. We’ve been exclusively talking to baby (2 months old boy) in Mandarin and plan on continuing to do...