Questions tagged [language]
Use of language in general, and about learning foreign languages. See also the tags [language-development] and [bilingual].
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I messed up and didn't teach my 4 year old much English, how do I start now?
Any ideas how I can teach my 4 yr old son English, even though I'm sure I've missed some vital window by not doing 1 parent 1 language?
A little background: English is one of my native languages but ...
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Should we raise our child as trilingual or quadrilingual?
Let me provide you first with some context. My partner and I live in the Netherlands. I am Italian and he is Spanish, and we both speak fluent English (the second language for both and the language we ...
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My 3 year old son sounds incredibly racist, how to handle this?
My 3yo got a book about monkeys for Christmas and he's been all about monkeys for a couple weeks.
Like all kids this age, he talks a lot, and has a wild imagination, but we live in a cosmopolitan city,...
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Daughter not learning Spanish, not interested
My daughter was born in Spain, and my wife is Spanish (I'm a native English speaker). At my wife's insistence, we only speak English at home.
Now, my daughter has been through 3 years of early infant ...
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Should I speak German with my child given I am not a native speaker but C1 level?
The title says it all.
I am not a native German speaker, but I have achieved C1 level (according to the Goethe Institut). I no longer live or work in Germany, and haven't visited for some time, ...
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Do I keep my daughter's Russian vocabulary small or not?
My husband is American, and I am Russian. We live in US in an area without a large Russian community. My relatives are in Russia. Our daughter is nine months old, and I have been speaking to her in ...
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Should I correct my daughter's pronunciation of ballet terms?
I'm a Hong Konger. I grew up in Montréal, Canada so I speak French, albeit with a perfect Québécois accent (which I'm proud of). I now live in Hong Kong. My daughter was born in Hong Kong and mostly ...
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How can I convince my child to write?
Recently my child(3.5 Years old) has joined a pre-school class. A couple of months passed and he participated in all types of activities and events. He has also learned oral words. Sometimes feel he ...
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How to encourage a child to learn a distant language and culture?
I want to motivate a child of High school age to learn a new language from far away like Japanese and learn about other cultures and civilisations like - Zen and ancient Japanese culture, for example.
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One parent one language: three-way conversations
We are planning to use One Parent, One Language to raise our child bilingually. Parent A uses German with Child, Parent B uses English with Child. Communication between Parent A and Parent B is in ...
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In which language to speak to third parties when following the OPOL approach?
I am a native english speaker settled in the Netherlands; I speak fluent (but not very grammatical) Dutch. I now have a granddaughter Rosie of two months and her mother (my step-daughter) has ...
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Raising a bilingual kid. When should we introduce the majority language?
We are a family living in an English speaking country with a 3-year-old. My wife and I speak both French and English and we are committed to raise our kid bilingual in both languages. So far our ...
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Teaching a child 2 languages that are not part of their environment
I've seen a few question regarding language, but none that fight my current situation.
I live in Ukraine and my wife has a 2 year old child that almost exclusively heard Russian so far. I, on the ...
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My child witnessed a toddler being taught to cuss by older kids. How to deal with rude language at social gatherings?
I took my 9 year old son to a little social gathering with some kids from different sporting activities. Some of the families attending this gathering come from a very "rough" background.
One of the ...
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4 languages... are we going to overload our child?
My husband and I are native speakers of 2 different Languages. Lets say mine is A and his is B. We both can speak and understand the other language - with varying fluencies. He speaks my native ...
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