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Superpower, family, love, perseverance, connection

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I find it incredibly inspiring and motivating for me (the adult/mother!) to see that my children (all adults) who grew up with 5+ languages are constantly adding more to their repertoire! Their curiosity towards other languages is amazing. So, I celebrate their constant motivation to improve their skills and learn new ones! (Proud mama here)

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With that wording, I'm struggling to come up with an answer as my little one is only 2 and he's only starting to speak. Maybe I'd say, "Come back to me in 3 years."

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Being virtually the only source of the heritage language in this country, as the rest of my family lives far away.

Related to that, the difficulty of getting together with that side of the family that speaks the heritage language, due to the tense political situation between the two countries.

Switching back and forth between the two languages

Finding and maintaining regular playdates with children and their parents who speak the heritage language

Lack of specialized events for smaller children in the heritage language where we live (there are for older ones)

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Juggling two different heritages, languages, cultures

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family, languages, community, heritage, superpower

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Resilience

Connection

Commitment

Awareness

Success

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To me it would look something like my oldest eating sushi while the youngest has baked beans or ham sandwiches...😅

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Stick to your mother tongue with your children, no matter what 😅

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Stick to your mother tongue with your children, no matter what 😅

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Lucky, challenge, power, happiness, community 

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Lucky, challenge, power, happiness, community 

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Challenge, Proudness, Culture, Distance, Love

The picture of our family’s multilingualism would be something about connection and stronger family ties.

The thing about multilingualism I find most difficult would be that I can’t help my children when they have social problems in school because of their non-fluency (yet) in the school language. I can only give them advice from home. If a friend asked me about multilingual children and what to be careful about, I would say don’t listen to toxic advice like “Your child will be confused with too many languages”, or “your child is gonna be a slow learner”. The last one is not necessarily true, sometimes it happens, but an amazingly big amount of times it doesn’t. Even children learning just one language can be a slow learner.

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It can seem easy at the beginning and there will be some roadblocks, setbacks. Get informed, be clear about the goals and know what you are doing and how to support your child. When someone advises you something that feels off, get a second (and third!) opinion and trust the process.

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exciting, interesting, challenging, rewarding, marathon

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We never know if what we are doing will be enough for them to use the language in day to day situations and later also in more formal settings. At home we only see part of what they are able to do.

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Put Realistic Goals - Plan Ahead - Review as needed

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Put Realistic Goals - Plan Ahead - Review as needed

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If you want to speak and write in the minority language with your child when they will be a teenager, then you need to plan ahead. It takes consistent effort, intentional choices, and patience. It won’t just happen on its own, but it’s absolutely worth it.

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It’s difficult to always try to provide opportunities and material to keep the exposure to the languages balanced so that they can develop as we want them to. To have this constant anxiety “are they ok with the community language? Are they falling behind compared to their monolingual peers?” Or “am I exposing them enough to the minority language? Is their vocabulary limited?” Or “are they comfortable enough to handle social life in the community language? Do they have the vocabulary needed to express their emotions / defend themselves?”

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Our family’s multilingualism is like four flying trees, their branches intertwined mid-air. The roots exist, but they are light and flexible, not anchored in one place. Instead of drawing strength from the ground, the trees rely on each other, staying aloft and connected through mutual support.

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difficult, superpower, marathon, amazing, magical