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Guide for parents

Guide for parents raising a multilingual family – The early years (0-5 years) WFBG exists since 2003 and we have discussed issues, concerns and advice given by others on many, many occasions. From these discussions we have extracted some very basic tips which every bilingual family starting out will find useful to read. Thanks to

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Key tips

We are based in England, so we refer to English as the community language. If you are worried about your children learning English: Don’t! Your children will always learn the community language. If you speak only another language at home, try to arrange some exposure to the community language “ child care, play groups, nursery,

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Advantages of bilingualism

The many advantages in becoming bilingual are outlined below Communication advantages Communication within the family may be improved. Being able to communicate with each parent in the parent‒s preferred language may contribute to making the parent-child relationship closer and enables parents to pass on part of their own heritage to their child. Bilingualism is also

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Common concerns

My partner doesn’t speak or understand my language. I feel that s/he is being excluded from family life because s/he does not understand conversations between my child and me. Our members have had different ways of dealing with this. Much depends on whether the partner is him or herself supportive of the decision to raise

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