My wife (polish) and I (French) are expecting a baby,how can we teach him French and Polish at home?
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at
6:28 pm
Is it better to talk to him in our respective languages or shall we alternate (on day French, the other day polish)?
He will go to public school, so he will definitely learn english there, we are just worried about him not speaking our languages very well.
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have your wife speak to him/her only in polish and you speak to him/her only in french and until he/she goes to school let him watch cartoons in english.
Good luck!
Don’t alternate by day. That will just confuse him. Best way would probably be to each talk to him in your respective languages, you French and your wife Polish, so that he doesn’t confuse the two languages (which will most likely slow down his learning of those languages) untill he’s learned the difference between them.
Once he knows how to properly distinguish between the two languages, you can talk to him in either language. However, it’s still advisable to not mix the two up in a conversation.
Speak to him in your native languages when you are with him. If you both speak all three, then so much the better, whichever is more natural at any given time, should be the one you use with him/her.
I should think that alternating days might actually be more confusing than, say, we feel like using one right now, the other at other times. Whatever is natural is better.
I work with small children, and the multiple language homes seem to look, when single language kids have good speaking skills, multiple language kids are still decoding. DON’T let that discourage you! They catch on and catch up and surpass the single language kids almost every time!