Are you raising your child to speak all languages that you and/or your partner know? Why or why not?
As for my husband and I, we both speak fluent Spanish and English and are raising our baby to speak both. She is only 10 months old but shows understanding of both as we [...]

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I'm bad at english cause i'm shy and never spoke since 6 yrs old now i'm 26. i'm bad at spanish too because even though i come from mexican parents,school was in english, university was english, and yes i never had english speaking friends, but also never had spanish speaking friends and i never really [...]

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I would like some advice from bilingual parents, I am a latina single mom and I would love to know how I can help my 5 year old to learn to speak english, she understands some things that I tell her but she won

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you child a second language?
Do they understand and speak both well?
Yes. Actually My Husband and I both speak English and Portuguese with both our children, and he sometimes speaks French with them as well. Our son is still a baby, but he seems to pretty much understand all the languages, and our older daughter [...]

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if one parent speaks spanish and the other english,and the kid is wanted to be fully bilingual,would it be wise to teach the kid a language first and then the other? or both at the same time?`
The two most successful language systems to raise bilingual/multilingual children are: One Person One Language (OPOL) and Minority Language [...]

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I'm referring to bilingual Spanish/English. I have bilingual students and they are not proficient in either Spanish or English (speaking, reading, or writing). It's truly sad. What's the best way to help them because they have it the hardest academically? Parents speak Spanish but the child can't do it that well and their English skills [...]

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America is one of the only nations where the native people usually only speak one language. I was just wondering how many of you parents are or planning to raise your child/children to speak different languages?
If you are, than which languages?
I was born in Italy and speak both English and Italian fluently. My 2yr daughter [...]

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I'm not trying to compare but my daughter is almost 2 and she hasn't uttered a single comprehensible word yet. Just a lot of baby talk. She's healthy, happy, understands what we're saying to her very well and she can comunicate her needs perfectly. Her doctor says it's ok for bilingual baby not to talk [...]

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I speak Portugueses and English (I'm from Brazil)… and my husband speaks only English (but he's trying to learn portuguese too). I'm almost 28 weeks pregnant with 1st baby (it's a girl!!!). I really want my daughter to speak both languages.
I'm reading books and articles about this subject to get more information… but It would [...]

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