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!
Will your LO learn a second or third language?
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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.
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We are starting our son in a language immersion program this January, he's 3.
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Yep he's bilingual in English and Korean, though his dominant language is English!
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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.
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DD speaks English, some Korean and some Spanish!
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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.
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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.
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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.
For this reason I do not consider my son to be bilingual.
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We are completely english speaking, but are considering putting her in French Immersion when she starts school.
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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.
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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.
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They speak English and understand Spanish. They some words in Spanish and completely understand it but their primary language is English.
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He's completely bilingual, to the point where half his sentence is English and half is French.
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DD speaks English and Swedish.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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@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
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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.
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@Alivoo01: I should try with LO2 because it's hard to convince him to sound out words.
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Our kids will learn French and English in school and I hope they will become fluent in both! At home we speak Dutch.
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