multilingual children

[szabgab]

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.

Comments

[yvi]

I know that pne is bringing up his daughter English-German.

[cesy]

Out of curiosity, would you call yourself bilingual or fluent in English or something else?

[yvi]

I call myself fluent in English, because I only started learning at 11. But I regularly speak, think and sometimes even dream in English, so on a day-to-day basis I suppose it isn't a big difference :)