Trilingual in THREE Months (Our TRUE Story of Blood, Sweat & Tears!)

In this video, I share the 100% TRUE story of how our son went from speaking only ONE language to THREE languages in THREE months. I hope this will encourage, motivate, and help other parents who are hoping to raise bilingual or trilingual kids.
Why listen to me? I am a mum dedicated to raising two TRILINGUAL children, in addition to being a professional translator and language instructor with a degree from Cambridge University. My book Bilingual and Trilingual Parenting 101 has also hepled thousands of readers worldwide.
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[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

What's your experience raising a bilingual or trilingual child? Did it happen effortlessly, or was it a struggle? Share in the comments below and let's start chatting!

[@Saya-ql6rt]

Fluent in Russian, Chinese AND English???... Two of the hardest languages plus the language spoken by the whole world?? that's so impressive and the child is SO lucky! The parents did a great job :)

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

Thank you so much @Saya-ql6rt ! They may not speak all three languages perfectly, but we're proud of how much they've achieved :)) x

[@kilominum]

tf you mean two, english is the hardest, chinese you just have to memories the words/symbols and that's it, russian follows a set structure but english you not only have to learn all the words by heart you also have to learn stupid rules that 70% of time don't matter. I spoke serbian, spanish and blody japanese at 5 but mastered english only at 12. But I talked about writing. When it comes to speaking I would say chinese is easy since the sounds are not complex, russian would be harder than english but english is no easier to learn than the other two. The idea that english is easy became popular because a lot of people speak it (btw english is not spoken by "the whole world", just because a lot of europe and america speak it doesn't mean anything, just by pure numbers more people speak indian than english) and because people like to make fun of americans for only speaking english so they just say its easy when in fact its hard to learn to speak and to write and its really challenging to master you don't start at a young age. English is not the hardest but is in fact a "hard" language.

[@kilominum]

btw I did say tf and may have sounded angry but in no way am I attacking you just wanted to inform you of my experience and because a lot of people I know and speak to have the same opinion that english is hard

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

@@kilominum Thank you very much for your comment! I agree, the common perception that English is "easy" certainly isn't true. In my personal opinion, I actually don't think any language is objectively "difficult" or "easy". How difficult a language is depends on, first and foremost, what your mother tongue is. I personally find Russian VERY hard, but for someone who already speaks a Slavic language, that might not be the case. And in any case, I find that becoming fluent in a language and gaining mastery of it can be two different things. It might not be that hard to become conversationally fluent in English (again, that's why most people think it's an easy language), but it's much, much harder to attain near-native fluency in English. I know that for a fact as a professional, certified Chinese-to-English translator - even lots of NATIVE English speakers do not know the correct use of the subjunctive, just to give you one example! So, yes, I absolutely appreciate your perspective. Thanks for sharing it here with us! May I ask which country you're from? I love interacting with my viewers and getting to know them :)

[@user-og1nu5pb8c]

你老公會中文嗎？還有你自己會不會俄語？ 我是德國土生土長的韓國人，大學畢業以後在北京讀研，但半途而廢就移居廣州和深圳，常住至今已有25年之久。我老婆是廣州本地人，我自己也基本學會講廣東話，我老婆以前在日本東京留學。 兩個小孩從小在家裡講國語，粵語和韓語，也跟著他們媽媽學說日語。幼兒園到小學4年級是上大陸的，5年級到高中畢業為止上的深圳的一家美國國際學校。目前大兒子在首爾讀大學，女兒在香港。 平時我們兩公婆沒有為了培養他們的多國語言能力而額外做出一些努力，不過每當跟孩子交流時平時盡量用自己母語，時間久了他們自然而然就學會。到了上學時期，每次放假我帶他們去韓國提供更多機會去跟韓國人多方面接觸。 他們平時上網都隨便看英中韓文的，自小習以為常。上大學以後他們因為自己感興趣開始學法語，西班牙語等其他語言，比起別人進步還是與眾不同。

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

感謝您的留言！！我老公不會中文，我的話會將一點基本的俄語。你們家的背景非常有意思，感謝您的分享！是的，從小接觸別的語言相信長大後學別的外語還是會事半功倍！加油加油！

[@artugert]

How did your son learn English? We have always spoken to our two year old in only Mandarin, and though we live in the US, he barely knows any English.

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

Hi @artugert , thank you for your question! Our son started going to nursery part-time at the age of 1, so I suppose that's how he learned English. Our daughter was in a similar situation as your two-year-old - she only spoke Mandarin and Russian until she started going to nursery at 21 months, but then she picked up English very quickly. If you live in the US, I'm pretty confident that your son will pick up English easily once he starts going to daycare/ pre-school :)

[@artugert]

@@themultilingualfamilyhub Oh right, of course. Thanks for the answer.