https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:35:38 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2349341 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 14:30:22 +0000 mrsvdv 2349341@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our kids will learn French and English in school and I hope they will become fluent in both! At home we speak Dutch. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2349338 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 14:29:04 +0000 yin 2349338@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Alivoo01: I should try with LO2 because it's hard to convince him to sound out words. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2349254 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:50:50 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 2349254@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our kids will go to the public school system that has a Spanish immersion program for pre-K-12th grade. Our nephew is in 2nd grade in the same program and he is reading in Spanish and English at the same level. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2349250 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:48:18 +0000 Alivoo01 2349250@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yin: Some words are easier for DS to learn/grasp in Chinese than English. For instance, he can't pronounce squirrel and just stares me. I know he's trying to say it, but nothing comes out. But when I tell him, "chong shuu", he'll repeat it immediately. Then again, he's 2 so yea... lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2349247 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:46:40 +0000 Alivoo01 2349247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS speaks/understand Chinese and English even though he's more English driven. I'm hoping he'll pick up another language when he's in grade school, but still retain Chinese. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2349229 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:38:43 +0000 yin 2349229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just English for now. He shows interest in learning new languages from school, and I teach him a few words in Cantonese when he asks. If our first choice for Kindergarten doesn't work out, he might go to a Charter school with a Spanish Immersion program. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2349152 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:12:23 +0000 snowjewelz 2349152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hopefully beside English, DD will learn Cantonese (for sure she will) and Mandarin (hopefully around family enough to pick it up). Then she can also learn another language at school later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347936 Sun, 08 Nov 2015 08:26:20 +0000 SugarplumsMom 2347936@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD speaks English and Swedish. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347866 Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:12:53 +0000 sera_87 2347866@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He's completely bilingual, to the point where half his sentence is English and half is French. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347590 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:26:31 +0000 Mamasig 2347590@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They speak English and understand Spanish. They some words in Spanish and completely understand it but their primary language is English. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347580 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:01:52 +0000 LilSprinkles 2347580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS speaks English and some Spanish. He will learn some Thai as he gets older, so he can communicate with DH's mom's side of the family. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347475 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 06:59:07 +0000 brownepiano 2347475@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh. I should be teaching him Spanish from birth but my Spanish has seriously deteriorated from too many years of not using it. Part of me feels guilty because he could be bilingual, but raising a kid is hard enough! He is barely speaking English at 20 months so I think adding another language would have slowed him down more. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347470 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 06:35:33 +0000 Mrs. D 2347470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are completely english speaking, but are considering putting her in French Immersion when she starts school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347468 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 06:06:56 +0000 looch 2347468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son exhibits the classic behavior of a kid exposed to a language spoken only at home by one parent: to respond in English! I've read that it requires a lot of exposure to get them to speak in the second language, especially if they know that the person also speaks English.</p> <p>For this reason I do not consider my son to be bilingual. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347454 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 02:05:35 +0000 Corduroy 2347454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD speaks English and some Mandarin from daycare but I have no idea how much. When baby brother was born all of her baby talk was in Chinese otherwise she refuses to speak it in front of me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347453 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 01:51:33 +0000 lamariniere 2347453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My children are English and French native speakers and they also speak German fluently since we live in Austria and their daycare is all German speaking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347424 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:44:46 +0000 chopsuey 2347424@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD speaks English, some Korean and some Spanish!<br /> DS speaks English and some korean </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347415 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:08:10 +0000 Charm54 2347415@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in a bilingual community so DDs will speak English and French. We speak English at home but I am trying to make a point to speak French with the girls more often, read our French books,'etc. Once they get to elementary school they will be enrolled in French Immersion K-12. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347409 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 20:57:38 +0000 mrsjyw 2347409@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep he's bilingual in English and Korean, though his dominant language is English! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347408 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 20:54:13 +0000 BandDmommy 2347408@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are starting our son in a language immersion program this January, he's 3. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347404 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 20:48:53 +0000 mrs.shinerbock 2347404@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our LO(s) will learn Spanish. DH speaks it to her and she does FaceTime with his family several times a week, but I am contemplating trying to speak it as our family language side she is exposed to so much more English. I am not fluent, so it will be difficult for me to speak Spanish all the time in the house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/doeswill-your-lo-know-more-than-one-language#post-2347372 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:54:50 +0000 Bao 2347372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think my kids will learn a little throughout school but I don't expect them to be fluent in any other languages. I may teach them some basic Spanish for fun! </p> <p>Will your LO learn a second or third language? </p>