Comments on: A Mission Statement for Raising a Trilingual Child

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By: AnaGloria Rodriguez

AnaGloria Rodriguez — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:44:16 +0000

University international student clubs are awesome. When I was at WVU I belonged to Women Across Cultures, which was open to anyone in the community, one didn’t have to be a student to participate. I made some wonderful friends and learned from so many women from so many countries.
What was also great was that the majority of the children were at least bilingual, if not polyglots.
BTW, I LOVE it that you have a plan. I had/have a plan as well and I believe that is one reason that my kiddos have done so well in learning two languages and enjoy learning about languages.

By: BethO

BethO — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:21:28 +0000

Hi Suzanne,
I used to work in the international students office of my college. Since you’re connected with a university, I’d suggest maybe finding out about international student clubs, and there may be an international faculty organization. Also there could well be a community cultural center somewhere in town. They’d have various things going on to participate in. Back in my hometown in Ohio there were only a few international community organizations, but people were very welcoming, seemed to really like having my daughter around at their events and she enjoyed herself.
Just an idea. It would help make that connection to the world outside school, in that language.

By: sgmateus

sgmateus — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:27:11 +0000

Thanks ladies. I guess my main concern/biggest challenge Beth is that we aren’t moving from one country to the next where the languages change. There is a trilingual school here in town. I plan on possibly doing some research there in the future and learning how students there are motivated to becoming trilingual given that we live in Central Texas

Thanks again for your comments and support. I really enjoy hearing your thoughts and stories.

Suzanne Mateus

By: Beth Ortuño

Beth Ortuño — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:33:36 +0000

As inspiration for you I would like to tell you about a family I know. Both sisters are from India, but they are several years apart in age. Their father was a military man who was stationed several different places. They spoke Hindi at home and both sisters learned English at school from an early age. Each of them additionally speaks THREE regional languages of India (these are not dialects, they are separate languages), but not the same ones. So each sister spoke 5 languages, 2 in common. Subsequently, both sisters went to college in the USA.

One ended up marrying a Norwegian and moving to Montreal in Canada, where they both were required to learn and pass exams in French, but later the couple moved to Norway and that sister started learning Norwegian.

The other sister while in college here in the USA met and married a man whose mother is German, father is Italian, who was raised with both those languages at home in Germany, but went to a French immersion school there so he also speaks French, as well as learning English at school since Kindergarten, and went to college in the USA. After marrying, she set about to learn some Italian, and her husband decided to study Spanish since so many people around here speak it.

Now, what languages will their son speak? Just look up through my post and see which ones his parents could choose to teach him themselves, then add the possibility of going to an immersion school in Arabic or Mandarin Chinese, which can be done where we live.

Sure, as humans there must be some type of limit. But clearly, 4 languages fluently from childhood is extremely do-able. And I also personally believe it is no accident that these individuals as adults have the ability to easily “pick up” more and more languages throughout life, as well as being able to make good friends and get things accomplished in any enviroment.

By: Beth Ortuño

Beth Ortuño — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:06:00 +0000

This is in my opinion a really good list of questions for any trilingual or bilingual family. I’m so NOT a to-do list type of person!!! But I’m finding that it’s really necessary to think through some things. Otherwise, it’s likely we figure out what we should do, just about when the easiest opportunity has already passed. Kids grow so fast. I do believe it’s never too late, but we can be a lot more effective with astronomically less effort, the earlier we start. Right now I’m seeing my older nieces and nephews starting to show signs of losing their Spanish. I want to slow that for them as much as I can, and hopefully prevent it entirely for my baby son. Thank you for articulating this list of questions, a structure which will us have a stronger approach, so we can achieve what we want to do.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:31:38 +0000

Way to go! Your child is going to be so smart!! .-= Melanie´s last blog ..Bilingualism Online: Recommended Readings =-.

By: Elisa

Elisa — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:05:20 +0000

I support your mission statement. As I read your story I thought about my own daughter. For her, if she wishes to communicate with her grandparents she will have to speak minimum of 2 languages (spanish and croatian) and English for education. But I'm trying to put myself in your shoes and to teach our child a fourth language that is not common to either of us, well that takes motivation, courage and patience. So kudos to you. I admire your decision. I recently met a mother who is Hungarian married to a Croatian. They speak swedish amongst themselves since that's where they met. Mom speaks Hungarian to their kids, Dad Croatian, and swedish at school and English she mentioned is also on their list! and she said she read some studies that stated children can absorb and distinguish up to 7 or 8 languages by the age of 5! WOW. right? .-= Elisa´s last blog ..Lessons learned: Is moving overseas a Good idea? =-.