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- Subject: Re: how to raise a bilingual kid
- Message-ID: <243@trident.datasys.swri.edu>
- From: nina@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Nina Rosson)
- Date: 29 Dec 92 21:33:57 GMT
- References: <C01A5z.Jv1@world.std.com>
- Organization: Southwest Research Institute
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- In article <C01A5z.Jv1@world.std.com> cwn@world.std.com (Christopher W Nash) writes:
- >I'm sure at some point or other this topic has been raised here, but
- >I need recommendations for books about teaching a kid how to talk when one
- >parent is a native English speaker and the other is not. In my case my
- >wife is Danish and we are about to have a baby. We plan to bring the kid
- >up using both languages but we'd like to learn more about just how to do
- >it. So if anyone can suggest a book or article about this or if you have
- >any other advice, I'd be greatful. Thanks
- >chris
- >cwn@world.std.com
-
- I am in a similar situation, so I would like to have information on this, too.
- My husband is American and I grew up in Finland, speaking Swedish at home. We
- have an 8.5 month old baby girl. My husband wants her to grow up speaking
- both English and Swedish, and I'd like that also. The problem is that I'm
- not sure how to go about it.
-
- I very rarely have the opportunity to speak any Swedish, my husband doesn't
- speak/understand the language at all - and in addition to it being hard to
- carry on a monologue with a small baby, I feel funny speaking to her in a
- language that my husband doesn't understand at all. - A friend of mine
- suggested recently that I could say everything in English, and then right
- after repeat it in Swedish. Any opinions on this? (It may actually have
- a nice side benefit of my husband learning it at the same time!)
-
- Thanks for any advice you may have!
-
- Nina
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