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When Papi is Responsible for Raising a Bilingual Child | Latina Lounge — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:45:39 +0000

[...] wife and I have decided to use the one-parent/one-language (OPOL) approach to raise our daughter bilingually. This means that I am the Spanish language model. As such, I am [...]

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When Papi is Responsible for Raising a Bilingual Child | SpanglishBaby™ — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:01:27 +0000

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By: Rachael

Rachael — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:45:29 +0000

I have that problem in which I don’t speak enough Spanish to my child because my husband only speaks English and I would like us all to be in included in the conversation. When I’m around my mom however he only hears us speak Spanish. This is very hard to do!

By: Sanda

Sanda — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:06:05 +0000

Thank you, Beth, this has given me some great food for thought. You’re right, English is always easy to pick up and maintain wherever you are in the world. Just today I met with a former classmate of mine from university who travelled all over the world with her children when they were younger – and guess what, they’ve forgotten most of those languages that they were immersed in back then. But I am sure that if they did go back there, they would find it easier to relearn them than someone who had never been exposed to them before.

By: Beth Ortuno

Beth Ortuno — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:03:18 +0000

I’m not sure, but have a suspicion even in France there is a “cool” factor for kids, and lots of media content available, in English. If nothing else, tons of stuf is on the internet that they would love consuming via their own ipad or “new” used laptop. If you will be returning to the UK within a relatively short time, some limited exposure like that could well be enough. Here in Houston we have an entire high school in our neighborhood where the entire student body are very recent immigrants, and year after year a high percentage of students are admitted to every kind of university including the most prestigious, much higher than other schools in the area (so they are acing their entrance exams — in English — even compared to native born students). My point is even older kids can get up to speed really quickly once immersed in a language. You don’t want it to get completely rusty but you can always do little spot checks with them from time to time, for example by asking them to write something in English for you, and if they seem to be falling way behind, then go to beefing up their English. In any case I would hate to see either Greek or Romanian being given a back seat in your home, if it’s not absolutely necessary, because it seems to me there are more easily other opportunities for English, not just now but throughout their lives, whereas a quality level of Greek or Romanian could be harder to achieve any other way than at home with you now.

By: Sanda

Sanda — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:35:20 +0000

Sorry about that, it submitted the comment before I had a chance to give it!

As some of the other respondents have said, it gets more difficult to maintain other languages once the children are at school and immersed in so many hours of reading, writing and speaking another language. And having a sibling also makes a great difference, because they tend to speak the dominant language to each other, and you can’t impose anything else on them!

We used OPOL before our children started school – my husband spoke Greek, I spoke Romanian, while we lived in the UK and they attended English nurseries. This worked pretty well, they had very good accents in all three languages and at about the age of 4-5 my elder son was indistinguishable from a native Romanian speaker. After they started school, they started replying in English to us, although they would switch quickly back to Greek and Romanian when we were visiting relatives there (or when they came to visit). Now we have moved to France and they have started French school, and we have even more of a dilemma. But we know we will be moving back to the UK at some point and that they need to continue their schooling in English. Should we insist on our native languages, at the risk of confusing them even more? Should we revert to English, for fear that they will forget it or not keep it up at a sufficiently good level to enable them to reintegrate into English schools? Or should we use as much French as possible to help them to learn it quickly?

By: Sanda

Sanda — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:28:29 +0000