Lost and Found

Bilingual

Since we started thinking about having a family we regularly spoke about raising our child or children bilingually (well, trilingual if you count Swiss German which is almost an entirely different language). We have already started this even though she is only nine days old, with A speaking to her in German and me in English. They say that children raised this way take a little longer to start actually talking, but then they know to converse with each parent in a different language.

In January last year I spoke about our friends in Germany where he is German and she is French. They too are raising their daughter and son in both Languages. They came to visit last week and he mentioned that for the first time, there daughter corrected his French grammar when he was speaking the other day. She is only five years old. I can see this happening to me in no time.