[B]Anyone teaching their child SWEDISH or GERMAN? in Cork area?[/B]

Amelie84

Hello there, I am half swedish, half german and have a baby of 6 month now. Dad is Irish. I will mainly talk german to our child and sing some songs in swedish to get him used to that language too, but make sure he will be bilingual in German/English!
Does anyone else do the same? Maybe even in German / swedish?
:):):)

Hobbitfeet

Hi I'm not in cork but my partner is German and speaks German to our lo who is 7 months now. I hope he picks up German well

Amelie84

Hobbitfeet wrote: »

Hi I'm not in cork but my partner is German and speaks German to our lo who is 7 months now. I hope he picks up German well

oh brilliant!! my son is nearly 7 month too i hope your partner is consequent with the language. thats so cool

Xdancer

We're also bringing our daughter up trilingual. She is 9 months old. My OH is French, so speaks French to her, I speak English and we live in Spain. I also speak German, but I think 3 languages are enough! :-)

It's brilliant that we have the possibility to speak foreign languages to our babies from birth. They don't know how lucky they are! :-)

I've heard that it can delay speech, but even if it does, I think it will be well worth it.

Amelie84

Xdancer wrote: »

We're also bringing our daughter up trilingual. She is 9 months old. My OH is French, so speaks French to her, I speak English and we live in Spain. I also speak German, but I think 3 languages are enough! :-)

It's brilliant that we have the possibility to speak foreign languages to our babies from birth. They don't know how lucky they are! :-)

I've heard that it can delay speech, but even if it does, I think it will be well worth it.

Its brilliant! and dont worry about the delay because no one could tell if that child would have been delayed anyway. none of my brothers nor me were delayed in our speech. So don't worry about it. as you say, its totally worth it. there are many kids having delayed speech with only one language and they will later be fine, so its not easy to say that its because of the different languages, a kid in that age won't know the difference until its 3 or 4 years old. They just learn more words Keep doing it !

liliq

Xdancer wrote: »

We're also bringing our daughter up trilingual. She is 9 months old. My OH is French, so speaks French to her, I speak English and we live in Spain. I also speak German, but I think 3 languages are enough! :-)

It's brilliant that we have the possibility to speak foreign languages to our babies from birth. They don't know how lucky they are! :-)

I've heard that it can delay speech, but even if it does, I think it will be well worth it.

I think it's more that the proficiency in each singular language is slower to develop, but overall speech development doesn't suffer.
I think it's an amazing gift to be able to give a child to bring them up with more than 1 language!

galah

not in Cork either, but also aspiring to raising a trilingual child (who at 9.5 months is blissfully unaware of it )

I speak German to him, hubby English, and we live in the Gaeltacht, so Irish will feature heavily around here!

uck51js9zml2yt

Im irish and my wife is slovak vak.our 2yr old gets english and slovzak.
Ke has just had 7 weeks with his slovak grandparents and is getting along perfectly

Amelie84

thats soo good love it as I was brought up bilingual (swedish/german obv) and always had advantages! even now job wise, its just such a GIFT ! keep doing it guys, never give up!