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multilingual children
Hmm, I guess I am reading too much about motherhood and stuff as I started to remember that once I was very interested in the topic of multilingual children. I subscribed to a mailing list where people discussed difficulties and how they manage it. I even bought a book or two about the subject.
I think this helped a lot and my son now has both a Hebrew mother-tongue and a partial Hungarian father-tongue, so to speak. Unfortunately my daughter quite refuses to speak in Hungarian. She does not even want me to tell her stories in Hungarian.
Anyway I searched for multilingual and surprisingly only found one other person listing it as an interest.
I think this helped a lot and my son now has both a Hebrew mother-tongue and a partial Hungarian father-tongue, so to speak. Unfortunately my daughter quite refuses to speak in Hungarian. She does not even want me to tell her stories in Hungarian.
Anyway I searched for multilingual and surprisingly only found one other person listing it as an interest.
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I think it's a very useful skill to have your children grow up multilingual if they are interested. I have a friend who grew up multilingual in Japanese and English (she and her family are all Japanese, but she was raised in the United States) and now she is a professional Japanese to English translator. She said her parents used to make her sister and her give them a quarter any time they spoke English in the house and that's why she is multilingual now.
I don't have any children yet, but eventually I'd like to try to raise my children to be multilingual. :)
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It certainly have advantages for the children to grow up with more than one languge but it can also be difficult. In our case I am the only one who can constantly communicate with the kids in the other language which makes things complicated. Sometimes to the point of lack of understanding in the family. This brought me to the point that many times I prefer to speak in the majority language to avoid confusion.
How do you plan to raise children in multilingual environment? Are you living in a country with a different language than your mother-tongue?
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Re: one parent one language
When they "want something from me".
And of course there is grandma and some friends in Hungary.