Bilingualism: how to help children bilingual

In family they speak more than one language, choose what is the most affordable way to convey the richness of language for children. For advice I can give it to you the experience I’m having.

If you talk to your child with a language that is not yours, to correct what is your focus, do not forget that the child will absorb every inflection and even if they are guilty, yet the errors in pronunciation. For this reason the majority of pediatricians recommend that each parent uses their tongue to speak to the child.

If your son, whom you have begun to speak in their own languages, it mixes the two fine speech, what do you do? Each one of us is decide how to behave. Personally, I repeat what the Mini Vac in Italian tells me in Spanish, is boring, but over time the results and the rewards are amazing.

Sometimes I adopt the technique of asking “how dad says,” to make him remember the word in Spanish, perhaps, recorded only in Italian and his father when they speak in Spanish. Anyway, whatever method you adopt, do not do the first step, in social contexts, it seemed very rude to speak in a language that most people do not understand.

I quickly realized that it more important to add to our deep understanding non-verbal can also chat in a common language and both included; then, the concept of rudeness was reduced!