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The Top 5 Bilingual Parenting Mistakes You Must Know to Raise Successful Multilingual Children

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Mistake #4 can be avoided by striking a balance between correcting and allowing the child to be themselves It's only a mistake when we overdo one or the other, so the challenge is finding the right equilibrium Is it hard for you to find a balance when it comes to correcting mistakes?
Comment from : @MultilingualFamily

Thanks for your helpful videos; you did a great job with your children! I have a practical question I speak Italian and my husband speaks Farsi; we live in Germany, and German is also our communication language We will use the OPOL method, but we don't know how to introduce German Will interaction with other children and school be enough? Won't the child feel disoriented in kindergarten?
Comment from : @Laura-pu2vx

I respectfully disagree with your opinion on TV/books I absolutely agree - real human interaction is key to making that language a real part of your child's consciousbrbr However, TV and especially books are critical for increasing your child's vocabulary and fluency Time and time again, you see children become conversationally fluent in their second language regarding day-to-day activities, but they have no specialised vocabulary For example, they cannot follow the news or read books beyond basic picture books That is because they were not exposed to those resources in any capacity Conversely, the children who did watch plenty of TV shows and read books in their second language end up becoming very well rounded
Comment from : @kickboxing3728

In our situation, the majority language (which includes my husband) is Spanish I’m the only person who speaks English to our daughter We also read books in English She used to speak words in both but now that she’s creating short sentences (20 months) she uses Spanish only I’m not sure how I can help, since I’m the only English-speaking reference for our baby girl
Comment from : @justtrilce5109

I am Bosnian and my husband is Ukrainian… very similar/slavic languages Some words are almost exactly the same, many slight differences in emphasis or a single letter, while other words are completely different We both know each other’s language a little bit, mostly just understand it We speak English as we live in the US Would baby confuse the two languages since they are so similar? We are thinking that the OPOL method should work as we can speak it with our family members as well but we do fall back on English often Any advice? Thank you!!
Comment from : @sanelaax3

I don't have kiddos yet, but it's good to learn for the future right?😊
Comment from : @angelas888

Hi Andrea, I found your videos so useful and clear that I would suggest my wife to watch them in order to convince her to maximize the exposureto the minority language She doesn't know much about bilingualism and keeps over-exposing our children to the majority language brIn this video only a(n important) sentence is still not so much clear to me: "Learning multiple languages at once without mastering any of them may be detrimental to the overall cognitive development"brWhat exactly means that? That equal exposure should be avoided if the child is not proficient in the majority language? Or that the parent must be adequately proficient?brbrThank you in advance!
Comment from : @emanuelegabriela2051

My friends and I just got on with it and brought up our children with both languages 40 years ago There wasn't much advice about in those days so we winged it In fact, we were just emerging from the theory that using more than one language from the start would "confuse" and "damage" the child, so everyone in the same position was experimenting or just getting on unscientificallybrbrWe must have got something right because they are now bringing up their own children bilinguallybrbrOver 50 of the world's population is bilingual without any effort or theoreticising on the parents' part It's the norm in large parts of the world No need to overthink it
Comment from : @jackybraun2705

I wonder how dangerous it is that the child can not tell the different languages apart and gets really confused if the parents are not consistent in their language usebrbrWe don't aim at both languages to be perfect, but that he gets the basics in the minority language urdu at leastbrAnd it's hard for my husband, who is the native speaker in that language, to keep talking urdu to our 3 month old son he keeps falling back into germanbrI am also learning urdubrSo sometimes we talk in urdu, sometimes germanbrIt's hard to stick to rules like speaking urdu at home or somethingbrbrI am really worried that in the end, our son won't even be able to tell the languages apartbrAny experience or advice concerning our struggles?
Comment from : @ginaali8144

I’m an English speaker currently learning Spanish My bf’s first language is Spanish but living here in the US has really weakened his Spanish speaking We’re currently living with his parents who speak majority in Spanish We’re expecting our first baby end of September and I have made a big deal out of making sure our baby knows both languages!
Comment from : @reborka

nothing special
Comment from : @hamidrezakheirian8013

I am Slovakian but living in Spain I speak to my kid Slovak and his mother Spanish as we should However, I speak to my son sometimes Spanish when we are outside around other Spanish…intuitively this seems the best approach, also when I teach him words sometimes I mention the Spanish version but 95 of time it’s pure Slovak…could you please confirm that this is in fact ok
Comment from : @mpeniak

Hi, we are Polish couple I speak fluent English ( lived 15 years in UK) but my accent is still strong How this can affect my child ? She's 11months Thanks
Comment from : @nataliamichalska6187

You are a Spanish speaker, right? Mexico?
Comment from : @cristinarodriguez5417

Wow! Thank you so much for your videos! Me and hubby are learning a lot and good to know what to expect and try to be prepared for raising our child with multiple languagesbrI did have a question and hope to hear what you think For background, we are in the US and am planning to speak to our baby in my native language, Tagalog (Philippines), which will be the minority language Me and my parents and brother will be her main source of Tagalog as we don't really have a lot of other resources in that languagebrI just thought about me singing in general I have not been singing songs in my language and I only sing songs in english I love just singing in general everyday and we also have praise in church Will you recommend i refrain from singing in english to her or around her?
Comment from : @lifewithkurbin

Thanks for different advices My children 8 and 6 understand the minority languangue (English) but always reply back in majority languague (Italian), I don't know to increase the minority language Thank you
Comment from : @giuseppinadimartino6699

Thank you for useful information 🌹🙏🏻 I’m from Iran so my first language is Farsi but I speak also English Turkish French Almost arabic and Spanish and Azerbaijani My husband speaks English French and arabic We speak English at home so I want my baby to learn all of them what do u suggest ?
Comment from : @tinarhz73

Thanks for sharing your history, it will definitely help us raising our baby!
Comment from : @Olivettevictorique

We’re a Polish-Mexican couple and we’re nervous about our first kid Your videos are very helpful and calm us down, they make it all sound possible Thank you :)
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Comment from : @MultilingualFamily

thanks alottttttttttttt for sharing, it was very helpful
Comment from : @ngotri1995

I'd love a video with tips for raising a multilingual child in a single parent family (either because you are a 100 solo parent or the other parent is away for long periods of time) I will be raising my children as a single parent and want to be able to teach them my first language of Sign Language, but also English as it will be the primary social language and French as it is my family's language They will get English through child care, but I don't know how to teach them both French and Sign without confusing them but also giving them enough exposure (my family does not live nearby so will only be able to speak to them in person a handful of times a year)
Comment from : @silversleeper1193