Bi Lingual ? kids ... Parents living abroad.

the_djoker

Hi, accidentally posted the below to PI, got some good replies there ...


Hi,
I'm Irish and live in Barcelona and myself and my gf have a son (2 months) .
She is Spanish and speaks Catalan to him - I speak English to him.

I know it's early days but I am a little concerned, my friend here has a 3.5 year old boy and is in the same situation.

But his son won't speak English despite him always speaking english to him,
They say the kid is embarrased ??? but this wouldn't account for the kid not speaking to his dad when alone ?


Since we live here in Spain we are planning to have more english material in the home - as well as TV (all films will be in VO).

So really I'm asking for people on boards who are in the same situation ,
if you have a kid in a foreign country , how is his/her English ?

or to non English speakers in Ireland - how is your kids "other native tongue"


Particularly im interested in couples who speak different languages natively


Thanks .

Kash

I don't have any advice, but I am very interested in seeing what people say, as we'll be in a similar situation (hubby is native French, I barely speak it and we'd love for our almost baby to be bi-lingual)

Moonbeam

Duplicate thread.