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Parents with bilingual children, how did you do it? (lemdro.id)

submitted 5 months ago by governorkeagan@lemdro.id to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Although I mention parents specifically in the title, this isn’t just for parents to respond.

My wife and I are trying to raise our child to be bilingual (English and Portuguese). Currently we’re both speaking a bit of both to our child and when they eventually go to school we’ll speak more Portuguese as they’ll be exposed to English everywhere else.

Is this a good approach or is there something we can do better?

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[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was born and raised in the US. My parents spoke Spanish only. They maybe knew 5 words in English. I grew up learning Spanish fluently at home. Everything else (i.e. school, tv, friends) was in English, so I learned that naturally.

Downside: I feel like it created 2 personalities. I feel emotions, relate to family and romance, and cook in Spanish. I think logically, conduct business, and have friends in English.

[–] Name@feddit.nu 2 points 5 months ago

Oh I do that too and I read somewhere that it's pretty common to adapt different personalities to each language. I am by far more courageous and bold when have my English personality.