multilingual parenting

We had friends over this weekend and their (non-bilingual) child (15 months) is communicating using signs, following baby sign language (see e.g. here: ). The parents are not fluent in actual sign language (i.e. the local version of ASL), but tought their child selected signs like "milk"...

I’ve been reading through different posts in this sub, and I have learned so much from this community! I am first-time mom, expecting our baby boy this coming summer, and I would love any advice and feedback on how to raise our son in a bilingual environment. Here is some background information...

Hi multilingual parents! For context, I am trilingual (Filipino/English/French), English being my strongest and my favored language. My SO is French-speaking and about a B2 level in English. We live in French-speaking Switzerland. I take care of my now 16 month old baby 100% and I‘ve been...

We live in the US so the child will pick up English in daily life. We speak Spanish at home. My mother tongue is Polish though I have now lived outside of Poland the majority of my life and I no longer consider myself “fluent” (I only use it when I speak to my family on average once a week for a...

Hi all, I’ve read a lot of helpful things in this sub and I am now looking for some advice. We have a daughter who is just turning 6 weeks old this week. I speak both German and English and my wife speaks only English and no German. We live in the US. I was planning on using OPOL in German...

New here so apologies if this has been answered before, but I’d love to get opinions. I’m expecting my first child and am English, but speak German fluently (studied at school + university and lived in Germany for 4.5years before moving back to the UK in 2020). I speak accent-free and understand...

Hello everyone. New to this sub so sorry if something similar has been asked. I have a 8 month old son and I come from a background of many languages. My parents were born in Pakistan, moved to Sweden where I was born and brought up. I speak Swedish fluently and Urdu very well as well as...

Hi everyone - my son is now 4 years old. We raised him speaking Mandarin Chinese as his first language, supplemented with Cantonese and a bit of Spanish. Ever since he went to preschool, he has switched more and more into English, although he switches between Mandarin and English pretty...

We were getting Highlights High Five Bilingüe but now we need something a little more advanced. There are a lot of great Spanish magazines out there but can't purchase most of them: Caracola by Bayard Education - my favorite of all the options because of the illustrations. Only sold in Spain...

I have done a mistake. And didn't teach my son my native language - Russian. He is now almost 4, we live in Japan and he can speak English and Japanese. But I want to teach him my language too. What activities did you do if you were in the same situation?

Hi! I hope you and your family are able to home, indoors, and are healthy. In response to the crisis, we are creating different resources for parents, so I was hoping you could circulate the following information (please & thank you!): TOMORROW (sorry for the late notice, it came together...

How much does homework matter in kindergarten, in an immersion school? My 5 yo goes to a Chinese immersion school and they send home a homework packet that’s about 8 pages long, to be completed between Wed and Sunday. It’s about half Chinese half English. I think even in china, I didn’t get...

I have a 1 year old daughter and I’m a native speaker of a very small European language while living the UK with my British husband. We do One Parent One Language with my husband speaking English and me speaking my native language to our daughter. My daughter also goes to an English-speaking...

Hello, I’m currently doing my degree in Educational Psychology in Nottingham and need participants in order to conduct a project for my dissertation as part of a Language and Literacy class. The test is an online Vocabulary and Reading test in English on children in Years 4-5 (Aged 7-9). All...

We are doing OPOL (I speak A, my husband B, our common language is B; grandparents speak C with my LO) at home. However, as I am basically the one who spend most of the time for my LO and read to my LO, I sometimes confused if I should only read book in language A to my LO, because others won’t...

Hi! I looked at the trilingual posts here but didn't find anything similar. I'm looking for advice/insight/reassurance... TLDR: parents - native monolingual Czech + English (fluent, bilingual, not mother tongue), daughter 2.5 y.o. - Czech/English at home, German in daycare, grandparents -...

Hello! I posted this to the learning language sub but someone suggested I try here. Our daughter is 5 and will be starting kindergarten in the fall. She got into the French program at a local (free!) dual immersion school that is K-8. The school and program have rave reviews but the kicker is...

Hello, I have been following this sub for a while a I have a question I want to ask; is almost everyone doing & defending OPOL because it is the best method, or because it is effectively the best method that they can do personnally? I have been raised by a French/German couple that spoke to...

I have always loved coming here for advice and reading all your experiences. Here is ours so far. We are living in Australia, Mum native English speaker, Dad native Spanish speaker, German is a family heritage language and we are both trilingual in all 3, though German is the weakest language...

I am a SAHM and we do OPOL, I speak to him in the minority language (Japanese) and im the only one that does on a day to day basis as we live in USA. A parent of a mums group im a part of reached out to me to see if we’d be interested in a babysitting/play date swap of a couple of days a week...