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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Snoozin: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by MyKingdomForATaba2Koshari: [b]This all makes me very confused about raising my child in a multilingual setting. You see I´m Egyptian living in Holland, my husband is German and we´re planning to move to England next year. So there are 4 languages involved, if you´d consider Dutch a `language`, hehe. Because I didn´t want to confuse my baby, I chose to speak English to him, and his father speaks German. But now I really think I should speak Egyptian to him, and he should learn English in England. I´ve read so much about bilingual children, but there´s almost nothing about multilingual upbringing. What I know is that some kids grow up to be introvert and even depressed if they get too confused between languages. A friend of my husband´s who´s half German half Iranian, and who´s 41 , does not speak one word Persian, because back then they said two languages is too much for a growing child. Of course we know now that this is bull. So is there a maximum limit..[/b][/QUOTE] That is so cool! Your kids could end up being fluent in multiple languages! I wish I had some advice on how to handle raising kids to be multilingual but I have no idea. I think I read somewhere if they are taught very young, they somehow know how to differentiate it, especially if they are only speaking one lanugage at school and another at home. Or one language to one parent, another with the other parent. I had friends whose family was from Chile. The kids were born in the US and grew up speaking Spanish til they got to kindergarten. They picked up English easily and then would listen to their parents in Spanish and reply in English! Weird, but it worked. The one girl gave up Spanish because she didn't like it, but it had been embedded enough as a child that when she decided at 30 to pick it up again, she was fluent almost instantly. Good luck with everything. I think giving a child more than one language is a wonderful gift. <IMG SRC="http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/smile.gif"> [/QB][/QUOTE]
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