The experts agree that it is more efective to speak to cildren in many languages during the eaarly age, because it will allow them to completly learn a language hollistically. Speak a secong or a third language, this will train the infant’s brain circuit to help to create a easier method to learning languages in the future.

The most widely used method for bilingual or multilingual families is to speak with their children in each parent’s mother tongue, it is known as the ‘OPOL’ method (one parent, one language). The other most common method is a language in each environment that is to say the children are exposed to a language in a family context and another one in the social context.

Children naturally dont want to speak another language that is not the language they will speak with their friends and classmates. But if you want your child to speak the language of the father’s or mother’s family, will depend largely on the commitment of the parents. If one day the child says “no more Spanish”, talk to him calmly about how important it is to know another language, and especially in our case, since it is a language spoken in different parts of the world, and by many millions of people.

Educating children in a multilingual environment can help them to recognize the importance of their culture and heritage, develop a strong and personal identity and it can be of great use for work when they grow up!

Young children must use rhymes, songs and games from their childhood. As your children grow, be more persistent and creative. Some parents send their children to language schools to learn the language in a more formal way. Many families also choose to send their children to spend more time with their relatives in their homeland, whether if it is just for the summer time or longer. Do not forget that it is important to have friends who also speak a heritage language.

Occasionally a child can mix some other word between the two languages, but at first those cases are normal, especially when the two languages have similar words. However, those small mistakes often disappear with time.

Being multilingual means that a person can understand and communicate in several languages, and express thoughts clearly in different languages. In addition, bilingual and multilingual children understand better the cultural diversity of our world and they are more open to new cultures and differences thoughts.