3 Things I’ve Learned Raising Trilingual Children
If you are a parent then you know all to well how important it is to stimulate your child’s language development, though what happens when you live abroad and are responsible for this alone?
This is the reality for us expats who live in a different country and would like to give our children the gift of a second language.
Let’s let you in on a little secret that most people don’t know when raising bilingual children: they don’t get confused by speaking several languages, as a matter of fact, they could keep learning languages!
My children speak 3 languages fluently: Danish, English and Portuguese and along this journey there have been a lot of challenges – kind of like a science experiment in many ways.
Here is the first thing I’ve learned so far in raising my trilingual children:
My kids are multilingual and somehow it just comes naturally. I am Russian myself, speaking Russian to kids, my husband…