#switching languages

Q&A: How to start speaking your native language with a 2-year-old to make her trilingual?

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How to start speaking your native language with a 2-year-old to make her trilingual?

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Hello

Me and my husband: I was born and raised in Latvia (Latvian native language), and my husband was born and raised in Italy (Italian language). We both learned English in…

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Hi from Turkey!

I have twins, a boy and a girl and we have been speaking in our mother tongue since they were born, and it’s been 20 months.

I can speak English fluently and I wonder if I start to speak only in English with them to make them bilingual how much do they get confused seeing their father has started to speak a different language they have never heard before.

Their mother…

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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…

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Hello!

We are a Spanish\Catalan family who has lived in China for nearly four years and our child speaks the three languages without no problem as we do OPOL and she goes to a Chinese school. We are planning to move to England in November or so, so we decided to put her into an English school twice a week until July, when we’ll leave China.

We have always spoken our own languages to…

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Hello,

I have been reading your website with interest and hope you can help me in introducing French to my two-year old son.

I am half English and half French and fluent in both languages, although my dominant language is English. My husband is Iraqi and fluent in both English and Arabic. I speak to my son in English, my husband speaks to him in Arabic. The common language at home…