Comments on: 3 Important Factors to Consider When Raising a Bilingual Child

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By: Olga

Olga — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:04:01 +0000

Thanks, Ana for this interesting article. What works for us is the OPOL method (I speak Polish, my husband speaks German), and the children go to a Dutch daycare. So, they’re trilingual. I am trying to be very consistent with speaking only Polish with my children (although the older one wants me to sing Dutch and German songs). AS for the language exposure, it seems that research differs on this one- I’ve heard 30 per cent of waking hours. I love that you mentioned the parents’ desire to raise multilingual children. In research on multilingualism, it is usually assumed that because the benefits are so overwhelming, every parent should want to raise their children bi- or multilingually. Except not all parents have this desire, and not all parents are able to raise multilingual children (time, money, commitment).So, like all things parenting, it is a choice.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:25:39 +0000

this was a very helpful strand… No need to post my question as the discussion posed and answered one-two of them, but I wanted to express my gratitude as always for keeping the conversation (and encouragement) going.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:28:21 +0000

Thanks for all the input!!! I do feel like we are doing a great job with our son. He understands both languages (or so it seems) equally. When he asks us what something is by pointing to it, I usually say the English word first and then the Spanish; my husband just says the Spanish word. Our son is not talking a lot yet, but right now, the words he does say are language specific….for example, he says “leche” but not milk. But he says “hot” not caliente. I don’t stress too much about it because I know he is getting good exposure to both languages (Spanish from me and my husband and English from everywhere else, me, my parents, friends, their kids, etc.) Now if we can just get my husband’s English on track……. I feel like I’m doing a science experiment!!!!

By: Beth Ortuño

Beth Ortuño — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:57:37 +0000

p.s. our son is also hearing a mish-mash all the time and a lot of Spanglish from Papi’s family. Papi and I are the only ones who stay in English when we’re in English and Spanish when we’re in Spanish. I was worried Marco would be speaking the mixed-up stuff he hears from everyone else — meaning nobody monolingual can understand. He did, for a while. But he figured out how to separate the two languages when he was around 2.

By: Beth Ortuño

Beth Ortuño — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:53:53 +0000

I guess the point is, like Ana said, you can be flexible and change what you are doing, as the child grows. If the commitment is there, you find ways to boost whatever is sagging.

By: Beth Ortuño

Beth Ortuño — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:49:12 +0000

Ana, I think you are really onto something, talking about desire being so important.
Not only does it drive the parents’ actions — it must be related to creating the perceived need in the CHILD’s mind, as well. And perceived need in the child’s mind is what keeps the language going strong in those middle-school and teenage years.

By: Beth Ortuño

Beth Ortuño — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:37:31 +0000

Laura, you sound like us! I was speaking English to my husband so he could learn. We actually thought, since Papi works evenings and the Baby was with him or with his beloved Tia all in Spanish all day, that he would be definitely leaning toward Spanish for the first years until he started school. Not so. He was about half-and-half. I don’t know if that’s because it was Mommy speaking English and Mommies are special, or because I just talk my head off all the time when I am with a baby (’cause you’re supposed to do that, they say), or if it’s because he loved Word World and Super Why so much and we let him watch those almost every day (and he did learn a lot), or what, But he was already starting to get more leaning toward English, and then when we started going to church / going to the gym, he was in the nursery there in English a couple times a week, and he went very lopsided toward English. So we have really tried to boost Spanish at home including me speaking to my husband, and we figure his English lessons will just have to wait. We’ll still be married after this, but Marco will only be little and in super-language-sponge mode for a short time.