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any one with a bilingual baby?
im britishborn in Colombia we speak spanish and my hun speask albanian, i want my bb to speak those languages as well as english,
i just dont know how easy its going to be for him, how long till he manage the 3 or what will he use as his main language. hooooo too much q, im so confuse
Advice PLS.
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i just dont know how easy its going to be for him, how long till he manage the 3 or what will he use as his main language. hooooo too much q, im so confuse
Advice PLS.
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I'm English and so is hubby but we live out in Norway, my lo is only 11 months so not speaking yet lol but he is going to start nursery next August and so will start picking up more Norwegian then.
We have other English friends out here with children and it is amazing how easily they pick up the two languages. A friend of mine has a 2 year old and she seems to use whichever language has a word for things that is easiest to say!
Children tend to learn languages differently to adults so they use it much more naturally. I would say if you speak some Spanish to your lo and your husband speaks some albanian he will pick it up.
It is also useful to get baby books for him in the languages so he can see the words too.
I'm English and so is hubby but we live out in Norway, my lo is only 11 months so not speaking yet lol but he is going to start nursery next August and so will start picking up more Norwegian then.
We have other English friends out here with children and it is amazing how easily they pick up the two languages. A friend of mine has a 2 year old and she seems to use whichever language has a word for things that is easiest to say!
Children tend to learn languages differently to adults so they use it much more naturally. I would say if you speak some Spanish to your lo and your husband speaks some albanian he will pick it up.
It is also useful to get baby books for him in the languages so he can see the words too.
I used to know a family where the mum spoke in sweedish to her chldren. they understood it all and could speak some.
It would be great for your lo to be able to speak 3 languages and they will be able to learn them the easiest when young. I would expose them to as much of the different langages as poss and as they get older you can explain things in diff languages so that they hear them and copy them. Also reading stories in the diff languages would help and be great!
Kerry, Freya and Bump
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One of the funny things we have noticed though is lo calls me the thai word for mum & never uses the English & calls oh "dad" in English & not in Thai. We figure it is because when oh refers to me he uses the Thai word & vise versa!!!
my close friend was born to a brazilian mother and an english father in venezuela...she spoke spanish at school, and her parents spoke to her in their first language so her dad in english and her mum in portugese. she is now tri lingual and speaks near perfect french and italian too!
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i wonder if because i will be sending him to english nursery he is going to prefer it.
my brother speaks spanish but he prefers to speak english even at home!!
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I wish my French were good enough to be able to bring my baby up to be bilingual, but now I'm not using it regularly it doesn't come easily any more
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Good luck
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lisa mum to jack and 32 weeks woth baby number too (gatecrashing again sorry xx)
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thats took long
I nearly always speak to them in English but have never been strict with them about answering me in English. Just try and be layed back about it and it will all work out.