How We Raise Our Trilingual Children

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Comment from : Andrea Breitenmoser

I am expecting my first baby, is going to be a girl! soy de Puerto Rico and married and American So we will definitely be following tips
Comment from : Coraima Rosado

Such a wonderful video I’m from Brazil and pregnant with my first daughter 🤰🏻 (8 months here) I want to talk to her in English and my husband in Portuguese But I’m also a sign language interpreter in my town and I saw some videos about how can we communicate with babies using sign language Because they don’t know how to talk, so using signs there’ll be no problems My question is: how can we do that? It’s going to be three languages at the same time In my case it’s Brazilian Sign Language, Portuguese and English I’m pretty confusing about it Can you help me, please? How can I do that? 🤷🏻‍♀️
Comment from : Poliana Martins Rodrigues

I am bilingual from birth: Czech and Slovak (similar languages I know), I am dating a South African girl, she speaks like 4 languages from there, and we live in Denmark If we have kids my plan is: I would speak to them in Slovak, she would speak to them in her best South African language, together we would speak English, and the kids would learn Danish in kindergarten
Comment from : Damian Leporis

Hi Andrea,brThanks for the informative video (I know it's been a few years, but hope you're still reading comments) I've been looking for more resources because I'm trying to raise my (now 13 month old) baby with Russian, English and Korean I'm Russian, my husband is Korean, we speak to each other in English but we live in Korea It's very hard on me, as I'm the one with her 99 of the time; my husband works 12hrs a day, so OPOL doesn't work as he is absent most of the time So I'm speaking Russian only Mon-Thu, and English only Fri-Sun I signal that I'm speaking English by wearing a bright yellow wristband I'm not good at Korean, so I'm hoping that the dominant language of the country, as well as my in-laws, will be sufficient in teaching her Korean The toughest thing for me though is how little support I'm getting Everyone is like, "poor kid," "you're torturing her," "howcome she doesn't say any words yet?", etc Koreans also tend to give you a side eye when they hear you speak another language in public, and treat you differently when you do (especially since I look Asian) I want to give her the opportunity to learn languages of her families from the beginning, but it's coming very difficult I don't even know if I'm looking for any advice, just wanted to vent my frustration a bit Thanks again for the great content!
Comment from : Lera Kim

Why does Swiss German sound like Spanish
Comment from : ROSH

De qué país eres? Hablas el español un poco extraño, como los de la sierra de Perú o Bolivia
Comment from : Lalahaha

I'm pregnant and would like to raise our baby trilingual I speake Spanish and English and my Husband English and Polish The challenge is that My husband and I can only communicatr in English Any advise on that? I imagine we will need to speak English when we speak the 3 of us together only Help! Hahaha
Comment from : D P

I'm Arab, I speak Arabic and Turkish, my husband is Turk he only speaks Turkish, his mom is living wth us she also speaks just Turkish I Want to teach my future baby Arabic English and Turkish How can I do that 😢
Comment from : Ben ve siğil ilaçı

My wife and I communicate with each other in English, also English day care I speak Dutch to our son and my wife Portuguese What is the best practice if the kid wants to address both parents? And you mentioned the cartoons, you switch languages for that?
Comment from : Dietrich Carlé

Hi, what do you speak between you and your husband? If it is english does that confuse the children or will they pick it up and speak it as well?
Comment from : Isabel Fuentes

I’m planning to have kids and I’m afraid they will get confused I speak Brazilian Portuguese, my fiancé speaks Danish and we speak English to each other We live in the Swiss German (so they will learn that at school) The problem is I speak Italian to my sister and my stepfather I’m not sure how I can approach that and don’t my kids feel confused
Comment from : Maria Eduarda Pereira Garcia

My bf and I speak Spanish together It’s his second language (Kaqchikel is his 1st) and my third language (Dutch and English) It’s so hard to decide which languages we will be teaching our future kids Because his mother does not speak Spanish and neither do my parents I want the future kids to be able to connect with every side of the family They will probably learn Kaqchickel, Spanish and Dutch Is it possible to learn 4 lol, as English would also come in handy 😅
Comment from : Isa Strack

Could you share the way how to get over the awkward feeling weh u speak the minority language with your kid?
Comment from : NGÔ XUÂN TRÍ

Thanks a lot for the video I'm myself french but unfortunately my kids don't speak french fluently,they understand basic things and can say basic sentences,numbers,colours We have been focusing more on English as my husband is British and doesn't speak french Arabic is my kids second language ,they learn at school I now want to include more French in our routine Hopefully it works for us all But consistency is the hardest part for me
Comment from : from_him 2you

I am from Vietnam it was very nice video, very helpful, could you pls share detail plan to raise a bilingual kids!!!! thank you so much
Comment from : NGÔ XUÂN TRÍ

Andrea can you tell me your full name please I m wrting an artical about growing babies like trilingual can you tell some information about trilingual too? Please
Comment from : Maftuna Mahmudjonova

Can I ask, where do you live? Whats the dominant language in your environment? As I understood, you are teaching them Spanish and German, and your husband?
Comment from : Tequilabumbum

Your videos have a huge value for my family from now on! I am Spanish and I was living as well in Switzerland, in Geneva, but now I am living with my German husband in Germany We switched our main language like you guys, as well We switched from English to German like our main languages I speak Spanish to our 17-month-baby-boy, my husband speaks German, and we also speak fluent English We expose Spanish in a long travel like you guys, using the Ferienwohnung for weeks in summer but as well in Autumn or/ and Spring I would like to speak to them again some English will listen your tips carefully and I thank you in advance Andrea Liebe Grüße!!
Comment from : Elena Montilla

I’m a monolingual American here, guess I’m just living out a fantasy in my head as I watch this video lmaoo 😂😂
Comment from : Payton

Hi there Wanted to ask about my casebrI am lithuanian born, which is my tongue language I am married to a filippina and we talk to each other in English What is more, we live in France, but my wife is only starting to learn French, so she is not a French speaking personbrWhich would be the better way to learn our new born baby to speak 3 languages ( French, English and Lithuanian )br1 French - important, because we live in France and he will start a French kindergardenbr2 Lithuanian - important, as we are planning to move to live to Lithuania in the futurebr3 English - important, as it is our communication languagebrThank you !br2
Comment from : Justinas Braziulis

Hi Andrea, thank you a lot for your videos and explanations I have a question that I didn't find answered so far in the videos I watched What is your opinion about mixing the strongest language of the father with the relation ship language? It wouldn't be a passive learning language anymore in that casebrI would be really glad to hear your advice
Comment from : Marie Muller

Your Spanish accent sounds Bolivian 🤔
Comment from : Fabs

Thank you for explaining! Do you use any printed materials /workbooks ages 1-2-3 yo teach them languages? Thanks
Comment from : INNESS

Can you tell me what kind of game is playing your kid when you're speaking Swiss German?
Comment from : Cristina Cornianu

The problem of TRI lingual is they never master any language, a monolingual person will always have a greater vocabulary than a multilingual person in a specific language
Comment from : O mochileiro

Cool video How did you start to teach them? Did both of you take the same time to teach them their language or are they better at one of the languages?
Comment from : Flirt-Forschung

Hi, I'm a new subscriber and have one q In OPOL method, what language do you speak TO YOUR HUSBAND in front of your children? Anw thanks for the video, really helpful ❤️
Comment from : Gia Baca Buku

Hi :) just discovered you and I have a question: brDoes your husband understand Swissgerman/German and Spanish or not? And do you understand Danish?brbrThank you for your response 😊😊😊❤🙏🏼brbrPS your children are soooo cute and smart 😍🌸
Comment from : ena

Hola Andrea, mi esposo y yo vivimos en Holanda Él es Filipino pero habla más inglés que tagalog Yo soy Guatemalteca pero me crié con español e inglés Mi esposo y yo hablamos en inglés en casa Tenemos 2 hijas de 15 y 10 años que hablan inglés y holandés Yo intenté enseñarles español pero por presión, falta de información y constancia, no nos fue bien Viendo tus videos quisiera enseñarles español para que por lo menos lo puedan conversar y entender Con nuestro tercer hijo quiero hacerlo bien desde el principio Cómo piensas que debemos tomar acción? Ayúdanos porfavor! 🙏
Comment from : MsATY84

First video in my quest to learn more about how to raise a trilingual child as I’m currently expecting my first -and most probably - only child My husband is Brazilian, I am Peruvian, and we’re both fluent in English as we’re both ESL teachers We live in Peru We’d love for our child to learn the three languages we speak
Comment from : Jimena Aliaga

My wife is from the Philippines and I'm Mexican, we're having a great time teaching our kids to speak 3 languages haha
Comment from : Nobody

My father forbid my mother to teach me Thai when I was young so I lost the chance
Comment from : Chrissi Kirkland

Hello to all, I am a Bulgarian, living in Germany married to a Catalan man from Spain I speak Bulgarian and English on a pretty good level, as well as German and Turkish on an advanced level My husband is speaking Catalan and Spanish- excellent, his English is on a good level but his German is pretty basic He also has a daughter (7 years old), she is living in Spain with her mom and speaks Catalan and Spanish as well as she knows some words and phrases in English She usually visits us every summer for about a month and a half and I have already learned some basic Catalan and Spanish to communicate with her We also try to spend as many holidays as we can with her in Spain Now I am pregnant and I am wondering which languages should we speak to the baby My husband will probably choose Catalan and I understand quite a lot although speaking for me is a challenge But he doesn’t speak any Bulgarian so I am afraid he might feel left out if I choose it to speak to our baby As well as Bulgaria is a very small country and I think the language won’t be very useful to my kid besides to speak to her relatives when we visit which I am hoping she can learn from them That’s why I am considering speaking to her in English or German But I feel guilty to leave my own language out I would be grateful if you can share your opinions and experiences with me 🙏
Comment from : Deni Vecheva

Thank you for sharing how you do it I have a 3 year old who speaks English since we live in the US I have started to speak only Spanish but sometimes it's hard for me since I am 2nd generation and born and raised in the US However, I have been brushing up and I have seen my DD absorb Spanish! I also put videos on Youtube for kids and that has been helpfulbr My husband has the same background, but he refuses to speak Spanish to her, just here and there (his Spanish is not as great, LOL) So, he speaks English , and we speak it to each other in the house br However, since a year ago, she started to have a huge interest in Chinese from a bilingual video she saw and enjoyed Ever since , I have been playing those videos b/c nobody speaks Chinese in our home and even in our community! So, I have used flash cards and even signed her up to several beginning Chinese online classes and apps My concern is too much screen time I am having a hard time with learning it too and I don't want to deprive her from learning It'll be different if one of us kmew it but what do you recommend?
Comment from : Iris S

Your daughter is so cuteeee!
Comment from : Natalie Christensen

I want to raise my kids to be fluent in English, German and ASL It’s gonna be difficult but at the very least english and ASL German if they want to
Comment from : Natalie Christensen

My daughter in 5 and she can speak English, Portuguese and some Japanese I've been talking to her in theses languages since she was born It's amazing!!
Comment from : Cícero Silva

As a Swiss German person, it's really weird hearing Swiss German online It always feels like the world doesn't speak Swiss German, I honestly just can't get used to it Your daughter is so talented!
Comment from : Mimmy Rose

Hi, we are raising our daughter trilingual as well Thank you for the tips I have a question, in the first video your daughter is playing with a matching game (after she plays with the puzzle) could you link the game Thanks a lot!
Comment from : Maryann Aguirre

Read with me -Slow & Easy Chinese｜快乐阅读 - 简单中文

Thank you so much for sharing My kids speak French, English, Chinese We are trying to introduce Spanish as well It’s not an easy journey for parents Personally I feel like learning the language is not only about speak like a native speaker, but also know the culture and the history Expose the kids to a good language environment Keep it up!
Comment from : Read with me -Slow & Easy Chinese｜快乐阅读 - 简单中文

Do you think it is possible for ‚„future“ child to learn Croatia? Because my mum is speaking Croatia fluently but I‘ve never really learned it as a child ( sad :[ ) I would visit my mum like twice a week or so and she would only speak Croatia with my child
Comment from : Mona Leher

Thank you for these enriching videos! I have one thing I would like to clarify When you introduce the pompom to let your child know you are switching languages, Do you speak a certain language to tell her that, or do you just show her the pompom and she associates it I have a one year old toddler, and I would like to switch between Arabic and English Thank you!
Comment from : Joy Jeha

At the dinner table were you speaking spanish tonthe kids and your husband were speaking a different language simultaneously?
Comment from : Missmini

I wish I have more wisdom and know more on how to support my girls It’s kinda complicated brI have a 3 and and 4 year old My husband speak to them in Portuguese and I speak Spanish now my mom stays at home and she speaks Quechua and we live in USA brThank you for sharing
Comment from : Ani Alca

swiss german is just a dialect of high german, every german can understand every swiss and vice versa
Comment from : JQ Frank

I was raised bilingual My husband too… sort of we are struggling to not keep our child monolingual It’s hard because we speak English to each other and that is what she speaks at school…
Comment from : Claire’s doll closet

What if you're a single parent? Opol method is not an option How could i teach two languages to my child?
Comment from : shx3sh

Hi thanks for the great video it’s really helpful - can you tell me how the game is called that you play with your daughter ( the one with the colored frames and pictures ) ? Thanks
Comment from : C, H

Hi Andrea, Lisa here Thanks for your helpful sharing However, I do encounter a issue now and need your expertise to help me Me and my husband are both Chinese and Chinese are our mother tongue But we moved to Singapore for years where we both speak English as working language After I gave birth to my son, I have been used the OPOL method which I speak English and my husband speaks Chinese My son is now 16mth old but I found my husband didn't spent a lot of time with my son as I do As a result, my son now understand most of the daily terms in English but don't understand Chinese In this case, when I speak to my son, shall I switch to Chinese? Will it makes him confused or cause him with a self-esteem problem? Or do you have other suggestions that help my son to learn Chinese as a mother tongue?
Comment from : Zijun, Lisa Xu

I have no kids and I am multilingual, I admire parents raising multilingual kids and I regret not having had that in my childhood but I always think that behind such videos there's parents' ego
Comment from : Gresias78

Surely this is quadrilingual right? As English is also in the picture?
Comment from : Uncanny Vally

Wait so how did you yourself learn so many languages?
Comment from : emhtptc

Entiendo que tú hablas español, alemán e Inglés Hablas un cuarto idioma?
Comment from : Private User

Before I even start working on my third language, I choose to learn about how to raise trilingual children lol
Comment from : 吳樂華

Hi, great video Can you tell me the name or the manufacturer of the toy with squares that your daughter is playing with?
Comment from : Parnaz Tabrizian

I grew up in The Netherlands, since my mom is from there but my dad is Canadian I grew up speaking only Dutch, but English was my parents' secret language for when they needed to discuss adult stuff Just from listening to them when they were speaking English I was able to pick up some words They didn't want to teach me English because my dad was at risk for being deported, but when that risk wasn't there anymore and he was allowed to stay in The Netherlands I was allowed to watch Canadian tv Especially on the weekends I watched a lot of tv and this was my main resource for learning English Now I'm fluent enough that when I go visit my family in Canada, strangers are not able to tell that I didn't grow up there Whenever I've had a conversation with a stranger and my cousin asks if that person could guess where I'm from (/where my accent is from) they always guess cities in the same region It's amazing how kids can pick up language like that even without anyone formally trying to teach them that language
Comment from : Julie Anne

Your daughter is amazing! I would love our child (we are pregnant) to speak 3 languages the same way (English Italian and German) but my issue is that my partner only speaks English and I have a feeling it will be difficult for me to speak Italian or German with our child if he does not understand it Do you speak Danish or understand it when your partner speaks it with your daughter? Is it difficult to be disciplined? Thank you so much for your help and your videos!br-Steffi
Comment from : Stefanie Moro

There was some pretty good advice in this, like having an indicator that the language has now changed, I thought that was cool, though, do you have any advice on teaching your kid another language without knowing a language yourself? Would the best way just to be like, surround them with that's languages media, like Russian cartoons or something?
Comment from : Lemon

Strory from my experience: I know a girl, 4 yo, speaking Italian with dad, Spanish with mom, Polish with nanny and English in kindergarten She's never confused and adapts perfectly!
Comment from : Alexandra9001

Me and my partner are both Polish, but I'd like to teach my children (hoping for one ore two in near future :p ) second language from the very beginning Does that mean one of us has to use Polish and one has to use the second language? And since the second one will probably be English, should we speak with each other Polish or English?brbrIf, by chance, I'd be lucky enough to teach my children the 3rd one should I start from the very beginning?
Comment from : Alexandra9001

May I ask you why you don't teach them German instead of Swiss German? Wouldn't it be much more useful for them?
Comment from : Wawruto

Was ist das zweite Spielzeug dass sie hat? Danke❤️
Comment from : sandra williams

in kenya almost everyone speaks 3 languages, if not more cause of interactions between different people or general interest
Comment from : Christine

in my optinion english should be alomost always the 2nd or 3rd language before starting with another one
Comment from : Tzap

Me as a trilingual watching this video:
Comment from : Ὀλβιόμοιρος

Do you ever have a fear of missing out? For example, if you kid says something hilarious in Danish but you cannot understand it I am so passionate about this topic even tho I am nowhere close to having kids 😅brI also heard somewhere that the 2nd child would pick up language more from the 1st child so they might be harder to teach all 3 languages, how has this been in your experience?
Comment from : Iva

Great input We also use the opol method I agree, singing is so important, and reading No such thing as too many books I had to smile though when you said your countries are not that close Japanese-German family here Difficult for anybody at the moment to travel though
Comment from : Katharina

My wife and I do speak three languages We have no kids and won't any time soon, but this has certainly been on my mind for a while! Thank you for the video and I look forward to checking out this channel some more
Comment from : Zach Danz

At what age did you send your daughter to daycare so that she could pick up Swiss German? I'm curious because I would like our daughter to pick up 3 languages too I only speak Polish to her and my husband Spanish We speak English to each other and we live in an English speaking country Our daughter is 15 years old and starts to speak, mostly Polish words, or first syllables of words, sometimes she will pick up a word in English too Thank you
Comment from : Magdalena Madeja

Ai que niña tan adorable y se llama igual que yo 😊❤️ yo quiero enseñarle a mi niño catalan y español así que probaré con lo de ponerme un sombrero o algo
Comment from : Laia Ferrer Argemí

Me encantó tu vídeo! Wonderful job! I want to do the same when We start having kids! My husband and I live in San Francisco we speak English and Spanish! You’re welcome to visit us! Felicidades!
Comment from : Blanch Sosgrand

This was fun to see! Thanks!brThe pompom and visiting others seems to work well! :) brWhen I studied to be a preschool teacher, we once ha a lecture with a multi lingual person He/she said that everyone in the household spoke one language (several generations too) so it took years before he/she understood that many people can speak the same language and didn't understand what language they'd speak The terror described wasn't fun to hear about
Comment from : ceicli se-i-sl-i

8:13 I mean, I'm super passionate about languages but honestly, a gesture like that is all I could ask for
Comment from : Julia B

You said that you were raised speaking Hochdeutsch and Schwizerdütsch Where did the Spanish come from? Was that a language that you learned later and became fluent in? When did you know that you are fluent enough in a language to teach it to your children? For example, I feel very comfortable in my third language, Italian (I use it in my free time and for work), but if I would trust myself to talk to my child in that language well enough for them to learn in properly? I'm not sure
Comment from : GräfinVonHohenembs

What would you recommend for the OPOL Method if one parent doesn't speak fluently the native language of their other partner? Wouldn't it create a bit of exclusion for the parent who doesn't fluently speak that language, every time the other partner speaks with the kid? Thanks :)
Comment from : ToastMusic

Que chevere! Soy de Irlanda y hablo ingles pero estoy aprendiendo espanol y practicando casi todo el tiempo Cuando tenga ninos yo los quiero hablar hiberno ingles y espanol perfectamente Creo chevere que sus ninos hablen tres idiomas
Comment from : Coach Cal

What language do you and your husband speak to each other at home?
Comment from : Life with Lidz

Hilsen fra en schweizer pige i jylland :D bi selber au mehrsprochig ufgwachse und ha nur devo profitiert, rede mitlerwile 5 sprache
Comment from : Sceneghostie

All the English people in the comments who only speak English: ah yes interesting :)
Comment from : UnpaidIntern

We spoke our native languages to our children (me German, husband English) for the simple reason that I wanted them to be able to speak to their German relatives All around spoke English Didn't know it was called OPOL In school they both learned French Had exchanges with French, German and Italian schools Now they live in Thailand and speak fluent Thai The eldest has added Spanish to her mix on the way Languages are a wonderful thing which enrich your emotional language and your thinking
Comment from : rosiandhermusic

What are the chances? Last week I was telling my friend that I would like my future children to speak at least 3 languages and now YouTube recommended this video This is truly amazing and super beneficial to the children God bless this family!
Comment from : Mel Anchorly

Me: born trilingual I'm from Philippines🇵🇭
Comment from : Eoi

child's brain is so elastic and adaptive in an impressive way i lost my English language fluency when i started to learn Spanish ,my brain said enough is enough
Comment from : Faisal Alkhedhrawi

Great video Cheers from Lausanne 😊
Comment from : Morgane

I am Latvian, my husband is Danish and we speak English together Our daughter is only one year, but we are already exposing her to all three languages People around us might think it is crazy, but I am sure that child's brain is more that capable of learning three languages simultaneously Will try OPOL method, because now we kinda switch them, even mid-sentence English is so easy, that sometimes I speak it to my daughter even if we are alone, and when I catch myself, I switch to Latvian We are also singing some songs, but to be honest we are also very lazy and don't think too much about different ways to teach her purposely 😁
Comment from : Austra Ābele

My swiss husband's family is from the french canton They speak french at home, Schwiizerdütsch outside, Hochdeutsch and English at work
Comment from : smiles

I grew up somewhat between tri and quadrilingual (we moved a lot) Or 5, since one of my languages is also German/Swiss German, and some people count it double Now we also live in Switzerland but speak English natively at home I'm torn between also using one of my other languages or not We also do the daycare thing, so Swiss German is "taken care of", sort of, and we can always start it up at home as well, and English is obviously useful, but so would be one of the other languages So I don't know :) brI really like your hat/pompom idea! I might do that for the other language, which is also what one of our baby's grandmas speaks to him So I could wear a grandma's language hat Thanks for sharing your situation and ideas!
Comment from : justaname

In which country do you live? I am Turkish and my ex-wife is German and we live in England, my daughter can't speak German as her mum didn't even speak a single word German with her since she was born We even had German au-pairs lived with us 4 years, she was talking to them in German and to her daughter in English When I said, you should speak to her your own language she said, English is more important to her because we live in England! Now she doesn't speak German at all and she can't communicate with her cousins and relative Such a shame! She can at least speak Turkish thanks to my affords even we were separated when she was 5
Comment from : Gokhan P

Me, a 21 year old German, not even thinking about having kids and only being bilingual: br“YES let’s watch a video about teaching my kids 3 languages”
Comment from : Svenja Meißner