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Hello,

and thank you for all the useful info on this website.

My question is on how to approach raising a baby in a foreign country, exposing him to three languages, and if talking to him in my non-native language or not. I found many relevant discussions already, but none addressing our specific case.

Both me and my wife are native Italian speakers. We just moved with our…

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Hi Family Language Coaches,

Thanks for sharing so many useful tips and resources – I just discovered your website’s Q&A section and I really love it! I have a question about raising a trilingual child.

I was raised bilingual (English and Italian) and grew up in Italy and the US. I was very lucky in this sense, because I did get enough exposure to both languages besides just hearing…

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Hello!

We are Americans living in Kuopio, Finland (for over 10 years). We have a daughter who is almost 19 months and goes to Finnish päiväkoti (=kindergarten). I was told by the neuvola doctor (paediatrician) to not mix languages and only speak English. We are not fluent (sadly!) anyway, but I am confused why we can’t encourage her speaking the majority languge, Finnish, at home.

We…

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Hello,

My husband and I live in Chicago and both speak Spanish and English. My native language is English and his is Spanish. We have both spoken to our 19-Month-old daughter in Spanish since birth as we figured that eventually she would inevitably learn English from her grandparents, friends, media etc. She also attends a Spanish speaking daycare except for once a week when her…

Today’s guest writer is Marieke Romano-van den Hoek, a 33-year-old mother-of-two, who blogs at Speaking More Languages, where she shares her family’s experiences of bilingual upbringing. Marieke lives in Holland with her Italian husband and they raise their children (1,5 and 3,5 years) bilingually in Dutch and Italian. Marieke has a great passion for languages: she speaks Dutch, English, French,…

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Hi,

I am wondering whether it would be helpful to change our approach. My daughter is 23 months old and I’ve been speaking German with her, while my husband has been speaking English. I am a stay-at-home mom and we are living in Germany, so German is the majority language, although my husband doesn’t speak German – so I speak English with him (and also with the dog).

We live in…

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Hello,

thank you so much for this website, it has been such a great resource and source of positive reassurance on our journey to raise bilingual children.

I have a question regarding switching the language method in the family. My husband is American, so English native and is learning German. I am German and speak English almost at native level. Our two children, who are 1 1/2 and 6…

Q&A: What are the implications of switching the language you speak with your baby? http://multilingualparenting.com/2017/03/16/qa-what-are-the-implications-of-switching-the-language-you-speak-with-your-baby/

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Dear Language Coaches,

Can you please give any advice on my family’s language situation? My wife is fluent in both English and Afrikaans, with HL (home language) Afrikaans. My HL is English and my Afrikaans is good enough for us to successfully communicate but I still make quite a lot of mistakes, so I wouldn’t say I’m completely fluent. Afrikaans is the minority language since we…