How We Raise Our Kids To Be Trilingual in English, Mandarin and Russian

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

How many languages are you raising your child to speak? Answer 2 if you're in camp BILINGUAL, 3 if you're in camp TRILINGUAL, and 4 if you're in camp QUADRILINGUAL!

[@norahbasakran347]

I think filming the kids speaking or studying will be helpful for viewers

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

Hi Norah, thanks a lot for your comment! I am considering making videos of my kids speaking or studying, so that's definitely something I might do in the future. Thank you!

[@trucho-duarte]

Thank you for your video, we here try to raise our little sweetie as a trilingual kid too, English, Spanish, Vietnamese b.c her dad & she are Colombian and she's studying at Int'l school follow British curriculum.

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

Thanks for your comment!

[@cristian15154]

So, basically, your are saying that, when you are with your 2 children without your husband being present, you will talk to them in mandarin, when your husband is with the children without you being present they will talk in Russian, and when the 4 of you are together "YOU ALL WILL TALK AMONG YOURSELVES" in en English, that is to say, husband and wife talk to each other and the children in English, right?

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

Apologies for the late reply! Yes, that's right, that's how we interact with one another :)

[@EmmaYannZhang]

Congratulations on your new KZbin channel Julie! I read your website and bought your book as well. Very interesting content! Keep updating 😊😊

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

Hi Emma! Thank you so much for your support!! I just watched the BBC interview on your channel - super impressive stuff, well done

[@EmmaYannZhang]

Thanks! I'm trying to speak more Chinese to them now. My oldest still can only understand a little. He is obsessed with those babybus games in Chinese and a Chinese character learning game though. He can recognise quite a lot of characters from the games but can't really understand sentences and words.

[@Dianaselje]

So cool! Would you say any of your kids have a preferred language to speak? And what language do they speak to each other?

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

Thanks for your comment, Diana! They definitely prefer English, and they speak to each other in English unless the conversation involves me/ dad x

[@Hana-ld7dw]

Thanks for your video! Should we schedule time a day to speak a language? Oder a language a activity? Thanks so much

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

Hi Hana, thanks for your comment! Can you tell us a bit more about your background and language set-up?

[@Hana-ld7dw]

@@themultilingualfamilyhub i speak Vietnamese as my mother tongue, German as my second language, and English. I'm also learning Chinese and Spanish. My husband speaks Polish and German, and we communicate in German. I would prefer to teach my baby German and Vietnamese as priority languages, with English later on. However, sometimes I feel confused about how my baby will absorb all the vocabulary. Sometimes I feel comfortable speaking German with her, and other times Vietnamese. I plan to speak German with her in the mornings and Vietnamese in the afternoons. When we're together with her father, we'll speak German. Does that sound okay? She is 7 months old and already tries to imitate us when we speak. I'm feeling a bit confused.