multilingual parenting

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...

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...