multilingual parenting

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...