When we moved to the USA I was very confident that my 3 year old son will continue to speak Russian. However - within months my confidence was disappearing. My son started to resist. I was surrounded by people who only spoke English. Like water flowing down the path of least resistance - he wanted to speak the language of his friends and teachers........ I thought if I just keep talking in my … [Read more...]
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Your Child Is Already Bilingual….Now Don’t Kill It!
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If I tell you I am bilingual, what will you think? Probably that I understand two languages, speak those languages with no accent, and read & write in those two languages fluently. That's rarely the case......... You see I gained that kind of high fluency from learning both languages in my early childhood when I was exposed to communities speaking both languages. The reality is that this … [Read more...]
026: How A Parent Can Stick To Speaking Heritage Language
Today's question came from a reader who speaks Arabic to her kids. She writes: My biggest problem is that I forget to speak my native language! I am so fluent in English, and surrounded by it so much all the time, that I keep slipping back into it without even noticing! The first year I did well with both my kids in trying to speak Arabic, and often said things in both languages (my husband doesn't … [Read more...]
011: Maria Babin | One Parent Speaks Two Languages to Her Children in a Unique And Very Effective Way
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In this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast, we talk with Maria Babin. She is the founder of Trilingual Mama. She has four trilingual kids with her French husband and they are residing in France. She graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo Utah, in 2000 with a Bachelor's degree in French. Maria completed an undergraduate coursework early childhood language acquisition and graduated … [Read more...]
The “Need” To Speak The Language: A Lifelong Quest
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The door to our 100 year old kitchen swings open. My 4 year old rushes through straight to the living room. “Mama, where is my dolly?” she asks in perfect English while dumping the whole content of the toy chest on the floor. “What did you say, lil’ bunny?” I sweetly ask in Russian while chopping cabbage for borscht. “My dolly, the one with pink dress?” she continues without any effort … [Read more...]
Why I Wasn’t Excited When My Child Spoke Her First Words
Children all develop at different paces, but in general you can expect the first words to start arriving at about 12 to 18 months old.These are generally repetitions of sounds that the baby has heard many times before. But when she says it for the first time, parents become as exited as they can be: they clap hands, exclaim words of encouragement, tell everyone around about it, share it on Facebook etc. … [Read more...]
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