 Re: Learning 3 languages | |
I started teaching my first child, Willem, 3 languages. English, Spanish, and German. I stopped teaching him German before he turned 2 because I believed he was learning Spanish slower than English and because since I don't speak German fluent and didn't think I could find enough resources to supplement my lack of knowledge in the language. But up until that time he knew words in each of the languages.
My 4 children know Spanish and English but it has been an effort on my part to speak mostly Spanish with them and then to get them to want to reply in Spanish.
When Willem was 4 he lived in the Dominican Republic for a few months and that gave his Spanish a much needed boost. He is 12 and a half now and uses his Spanish with students at school because he doesn't think his teachers can know what he is talking about that way. Willem knows both languages the best out of my children.
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Robert |