Comments on: How Bilingual Parents Can Raise a Trilingual Child http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/05/how-bilingual-parents-can-raise-a-trilingual-child/ Raising bilingual and bicultural kids Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: przydatne linki | Trilingua Blog http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/05/how-bilingual-parents-can-raise-a-trilingual-child/#comment-376516 przydatne linki | Trilingua Blog Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:48:36 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=23363#comment-376516 [...] http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/05/how-bilingual-parents-can-raise-a-trilingual-child/ [...]

]]> By: Marilou http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/05/how-bilingual-parents-can-raise-a-trilingual-child/#comment-190297 Marilou Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:04:25 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=23363#comment-190297 Hi Suzanne,
I came accross your blog just this morning. I have a 4 yr old and we are raising him trilingual. He understands my language ( tagalog ) perfectly but I never imposed him to speak it though sometimes he would speak it every now and then. My husband talks and read to him in Greek. His educational videos and books are in english and greek. He speaks and read in English very well and talk some greek to my husband. Yesterday his preschool teacher was asking me permission to evaluate his language because sometimes when you ask him questions instead of answering he repeats back the question instead. Is this normal for trilingual kids? He never used to do that but a month ago my dad stayed with us for 2 months and he was teaching my son to speak and sing in our language. So he started repeating what he said. He actually memorized several songs in our language. Me and my siblings grow up with 3 languages too and I had a memory talking to my sister when we were little that she repeats everything I say. I never actually paid too much attention about my son repeating my questions especially he does not do it all the time and I just thought it is his way of learning words and sentences. But the pre school teacher got me thinking about it.

]]> By: Jennifer http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/05/how-bilingual-parents-can-raise-a-trilingual-child/#comment-158043 Jennifer Mon, 23 Jul 2012 01:10:41 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=23363#comment-158043 I am doing my research now that I am 8 weeks pregnant. I really want my children to speak 3 languages. I speak both english and spanish but my husband only speaks english. I’ve been trying to teach my husband but he is learning in a slow pace. Which is why I want to start as soon as my child is born. I have not chosen a third language yet, I was going towards portuguese (since it is similar to spanish) or something more complex like chinese. I feel stuck because I do not know how I can teach my child a language I dont know. I loved your blog and you have helped me realize it is possible thank you and keep us updated!

]]> By: Xochitl Oseguera http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/05/how-bilingual-parents-can-raise-a-trilingual-child/#comment-137600 Xochitl Oseguera Sun, 27 May 2012 05:49:36 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=23363#comment-137600 Estimada Suzanne,
Gracias por compartir tus consejos para educar a nuestros hijos con dos y hasta tres idiomas. Es importante que mantengamos este tipo de información al publico para que nos ayudemos mutuamente y además superemos las barreras y los mitos negativos que abundan sobre la educación bilingue. Mi hijo esta aprendiendo 3 idiomas (Spanish, English and German: “Germanglish”) y aunque no es nada fácil, los niños tienen la capacidad de aprender muchos idiomas a la vez. ¡Saludos!

]]> By: Kathleen http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/05/how-bilingual-parents-can-raise-a-trilingual-child/#comment-137569 Kathleen Sun, 27 May 2012 03:29:33 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=23363#comment-137569 Good for you guys!! Your daughter is lucky to have you working hard to expose her to 3 languages!! She will definately figure it all out with time. My daughter cried when I told her she would be going to a new school for first grade and learnng only in Spanish. Now she thanks me for her Spanish skills and loves her school. I have no doubt your daughter will thank you later as well!

]]> By: suzanne mateus http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/05/how-bilingual-parents-can-raise-a-trilingual-child/#comment-137407 suzanne mateus Sat, 26 May 2012 13:55:23 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=23363#comment-137407 That is awesome! I love the way children naturally use their other languages as resources ;)

]]> By: ettedgui family http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/05/how-bilingual-parents-can-raise-a-trilingual-child/#comment-137157 ettedgui family Fri, 25 May 2012 23:43:40 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=23363#comment-137157 We speak Spanish and French at home. English outside of the house with the world. I make every effort to speak to my girls in Spanish and repeat what I am saying I French…sometimes that does not happen, but they are blessed with grandparents that do not speak English, so that helps. They learn to figure it out in all languages…it may take a little longer to process in one language, and that is when we come in and take advantage to use all languages as we help them through to say what they are thinking in Spanish or French. Sometimes they mix Spanish and French, not English. Love it!!! Would love to add another language. Oh! And the whole idea that mo. Speaks more than one language is a good thing. It’s a living example that they can too, AND it doesn’t confuse them. Key is to be firm and consistant about the child knowing they speak to mommy in one specific language. In our home, the children speak in Spanish to mom. Great article!

]]> By: suzanne mateus http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/05/how-bilingual-parents-can-raise-a-trilingual-child/#comment-137117 suzanne mateus Fri, 25 May 2012 20:59:12 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=23363#comment-137117 That is so interesting, Casey! I always get the “So, are you teaching her Spanish AND English” There is definitely a language status dynamic involved. Another thing I find interesting is that some parents stop speaking to their children in the foreign language when they bump into an English speaking kid or parent. I just keep speaking Spanish. I figure that Sabrina will learn to accommodate others as she gets older and that for now the more Spanish she hears out of my mouth the better.

]]> By: Casey http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/05/how-bilingual-parents-can-raise-a-trilingual-child/#comment-137101 Casey Fri, 25 May 2012 20:16:01 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=23363#comment-137101 This is really interesting and I’m glad to see other parents doing the same thing that my husband and I are trying to do. I am a native English speaker, he is a native Spanish speaker, but we are both fluent in both and my husband has taken some classes and can muddle through conversational French and Japanese, so we’ve been little by little trying to expose our son to French. An interesting aside that we have noticed is that when we talk with other people in our community about how we are trying to teach our son english, spanish AND french they respond very differently than when we are in public speaking spanish with our son. One response praises our educational techniques and endeavors in a very high-brow cultured manner and the other almost seems to shame us for being in the United States and not spending all of our time speaking english. Somehow adding another european language makes us less immigrants and more global transnationals.

]]> By: suzanne mateus http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/05/how-bilingual-parents-can-raise-a-trilingual-child/#comment-137081 suzanne mateus Fri, 25 May 2012 19:13:12 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=23363#comment-137081 Hi Diana,

I like to see it as not confused but working things out. Also, the social and cognitive benefits will surpass any of the short-term effects of being exposed to more than one language. In fact, if I were you I would consider using the one parent, one language method ALL the time ;)

Suerte

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