multilingual parenting

Hi, Looking for advice here as I can’t find much about our specific situation online. Wife’s native language is English whereas mine is Spanish. We live in an English speaking country, so Spanish would the minority language in our case. Our son is about 10 months old and we’ve pretty much been...

We speak Russian at home. We live in the US but daycare is Spanish. Our 15 m.o. hears English at the pool, doctors’ offices and when we visit friends. We don’t know Spanish and all the books we have are in English (we read a lot). Current set up is - we speak Russian, read English, Spanish at...

Hi! I’m about to start babysitting my almost 6 month old nephew a few times a week and I would really like for him to be fluent in english by the time he starts school. I’m the only person in my family that’s fluent (we live in Spain) and I was wondering how to best approach this. I’m thinking...

Hi all. I have a 24 month old and we practice OPOL (French and English). My child is very communicative, though mainly using toddler jargon. He has a limited vocabulary of around 40 words and has not yet started speaking in 2+ word phrases. His comprehension in both languages is very good. It...

Hello, we speak 4 languages at home: I the mother speaks French father speaks Hindi we speak English at home we speak German outside home (school, work, anything) The children are 3 and 6. Now they know mostly English and German. I sometimes try to introduce French but both of my children...

Hello! Need some input on how to keep Spanish in the mix. Based: US Community language: English Mother tongue: English, heritage: Spanish Father tongue: French Nanny + Grandmother: Spanish He’s 2.5 and speaks / understands all 3. We are moving and the area we are moving to has no...

Here’s my dilemma. My 16 mo old is ready for daycare, part time. My husband is fluent heritage Spanish speaker but rarely speaks Spanish to baby. I barely know any, but do my best and speak more Spanish to her than he does (reading other posts, I need to try and learn more now). I have 3...

I’m a fourth generation Japanese American. I don’t speak Japanese anymore unfortunately (or at least not fluent at all lol). On the other hand, I speak Spanish, Portuguese, and French to a passable level (I’d say around B2+). We live in southern california so I thought I’d try speaking some...

It is not super serious but we have someone who is with our 12 month old two times a week for a few hours at a time and only speaks Portuguese. This will probably be the case for the next 6-8 months or so. Is this “worth it” so to speak in building a foundation and should we continue it? Or is...

Hey there, I’m a former Spanish teacher/professor and I’ve just had my first child. I taught Spanish for about 10 years to every age from pre-k to college. I’m not a native speaker; didn’t learn until I was in high school. I switched careers about 5 years ago and now I rarely have opportunities...

I have a toddler who is constantly learning new words at daycare and at home. We speak 3 languages at home (Italian, Spanish and English) but only English at daycare. Half the new words are in her minority languages which is great! But I’m nervous that the daycare teachers will say “no, that’s a...

Hi all! It was great to hear from other multilingual families in my other post, and I wanted to share another situation I am facing. I would love to hear how y’all might handle this. We’re doing OPOL with an almost 1year old. My husband and I have very basic knowledge of each other’s language...