5 Language Proficiency Boosting Tips | Quick Ways to Improve Your Language Skills

Did you know that a parent's language proficiency, not their native language, is actually more important in determining a child's language development? #bilingualchild #bilingualkids #bilingualchildren
In this video I share 5 quick ways that you can improve your language skills as you go on about your day.
The study I mention in this video:
Unsworth, S., Brouwer, S., de Bree, E. & Verhagen, J. (2019). Predicting bilingual preschoolers’ patterns of language development: degree of non-native input matters. Applied Psycholinguistics. doi.org/10.1017/S014271641900...
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[@dailyitalianwords-italianw3970]

I’m raising my son in Italian as a non-native speaker and I find your channel so encouraging! Keep up the great work!

[@LiveYourLanguage]

Thank you so much for your nice comment and for watching! I'm glad you find my channel encouraging 🙂. It's hard some days so we can all use encouragement!

[@TitaAguirreGarcia]

Im trying to do the same. How long have you been doing it? May I ask What are your successes or struggles? We only been doing this for a few months since birth.

[@alexandrafriedline613]

Love your channel! I’m currently pregnant and am hoping to be able to raise our child in my non-native language, Spanish. My mother is a native speaker as are all of her relatives, but I didn’t really become conversational in the language until college. I’m so encouraged by you and how intentional you are being with raising your own kids bilingual. Keep up the good work and thanks for the tips!

[@LiveYourLanguage]

Thank you so much for watching and for your kind words! Congratulations! What an exciting journey you're about to start. Your situation is similar to mine, but my mom spoke French. It's too bad our parents didn't chose to speak their languages with us as children! It's great that you will have all that built-in support for keeping up with the language and I'm sure your child will be so thankful.

[@Mac_an_Mheiriceanaigh]

Your mother and her relatives are great resources -- make sure they know to only speak Spanish with your child!!!

[@marigori3043]

Thank you for your tips ❤ I'm raising my baby girl to be English and hopefully Spanish speaker.

[@jojo-cq6qv]

Raising my 3 kids with my non-native language of Turkish and I really needed this sort of encouragement today. Thank you for your videos. They are inspiring and full of practical advice 🙌🏼❤

[@LiveYourLanguage]

Thank you so much for your kind words and for watching my video! I'm glad I can encourage you because can be really hard some days! Hang in there--it'll be worth it!