How to Raise Bilingual Children | Teach Two + Languages

I wanted to share my experience of teaching my son Russian whilst living in the UK. Here's my story and ways to help you teach your children multiple languages!

CHAPTERS
00:00 My background; Russian & English
04:06 Methods of teaching kids two languages
07:28 Interactions & learning techniques

Methods:
1. The whole family speaking one language (that's different to outside/school etc.)
2. 1 person 1 language. This is particularly useful to teach a child multiple languages at the same time. This is the method I'm using to teach my son Russian in England, UK.
3. A time or space/place. This is where you teach a particular language during a particular time of day or choose a room or corner where they can speak only that language.

Interactions:
1. Books
2. Songs
3. Rhymes
4. TV
5. Toys
OR a mix of the above makes the perfect way to immerse children in a language.

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[AlinaGhost]

When I was researching about the ways to teach my child Russian and English, I found that there weren’t many real life examples. I hope that this video and more in the future will help families who are bilingual!

[JessvanDalfsen]

I'm so here for this video, my husband speaks to my children in Dutch and I speaking in English. I did worry about the confusion but was informed that they won't. my little one started speaking later also. my daughter only watched Dutch language on television. We don't allow English music or television in the house, the reason is my husband who speaks Dutch is at work all day and it's the only way that I can saturate my kids into the Dutch language ☺️ x

[sheedcamp]

Guys it starts at 4:20 if u want to get straight to the point

[katieherbert]

Really interesting to watch! Looking forward to seeing Aidan learn both languages!

[ericvtec-lbmg]

I'm pilipino and my wife is Latin American and we living in Australia, I have two twins and we have this rules that when we are at home we only speak Spanish but when we are outside we used English and when the kids are with they Grandama or cousin they speak Pilipino tagalog, hey and it works now they are trilingual.

[milanalysenkova]

It has been wonderful seeing you! Thank you for sharing your experience! All the very best :)

[innaisaev]

Молодец. Если учить языки с самого детства, тем лучше проходит развитие ребенка

[catbuthuman]

I’m saving this for a few years down the line when I have a kid. I’m glad I’m getting some advice on Russian specifically. Even if it works on many, it is the one I plan on teaching my kids other than English.

[tuamamisgey]

This actually really helps me, I am no where near ready to have children (as I am very young). But me and my boyfriend were talking about having kids one day and I realized I really want my kids to be able to communicate with my family in Spain. I live in America now, but I was born in Spain and lived there until I was 11. I’m still fluent in the language, problem is I have no one to practice my Spanish with. I want to be a good mom so bad lol

[jessicak]

Such a lovely video! He’s growing up so quick! ❤️

[PolianicesdaPolly]

Such a wonderful video. I’m from Brazil and pregnant with my first daughter 🤰🏻 (8 months here). I want to talk to her in English and my husband in Portuguese. But I’m also a sign language interpreter in my town and I saw some videos about how can we communicate with babies using sign language. Because they don’t know how to talk, so using signs there’ll be no problems. My question is: how can we do that? It’s going to be three languages at the same time. In my case it’s Brazilian Sign Language, Portuguese and English. I’m pretty confusing about it. Can you help me, please?

[nurversace]

i used this video as a source while doing my essay writing assignment about raising bilingual children, thanks for the useful information...

[hannahconfino]

I just had a baby girl and between me and my partner we are fluent in four languages. I'm British (English), he's Sudanese (mother tongue Masalit, fluent in Arabic), we speak English at home and Hebrew is the community language because we live in Israel (like you did!).

Any tips on how to teach the four languages? I'll speak with her in English, Adam in Masalit (it's very important to him to pass on this language), Hebrew at school and how do we add in the Arabic? It would be such a shame to give up on it - it's the majority language in Sudan and the common language of the Sudanese community here in Israel and of course neighbouring countries.

Do you have any thoughts, ideas or tips for us? Thanks for this video :)

[D-edceuebew]

Do you speak to your son in Russian at home only or outside as well? Or outside in English only?

[justseenaface]

Thank you for your video! I have a 2yo. We speak Spanish at home and live in an English speaking county. I also read English books in Spanish, but yesterday he asked me for the first time what the actual words say on the book. Did you ever have this happen? Now I’m wondering if I should write the words in Spanish below the ingles so he can see both sets of words.

[Innessofficial]

У меня родился малыш и я сама столкнулась с этой проблемой. Я говорю по русски, мой мужчина по португальски, а между собой мы говорим на английском. Моему малышу 5 месяцев, я говорю с ней исключительно на русском с рождения, а мой мужчина на португ. Как вы рекомендуете вводить английский язык? Мы оба свободно им владеем.Вы можете поделиться какими пособиями вы пользуетесь для обучения/планируете пользоваться? Какие книжки по обучению 2/ 3 м языкам мне стоит почитать ?

[natr.]

What language do you speak when there´s three of you, while having dinner for example?

[olgakharina]

I am raising a child as multilingual - Russian, Ukrainian from he was born and German from 2 years. Now he is 3 years old and he is perfectly speaking Russian, and mix it with Ukrainian, understand German and speaks a little. So now I think about how I should teach him reading?

[HangLe-clpd]

Thanks so much. I'm creating a bilingual language environment for my 9-month-old baby too

[tr.lubnaimlahi]

It's been three years since you made this vid, now that your child is 4, would you mind updating us on the issue, I'm in dear need of it ❤