Raising child in a trilingual family?

Question

Hi,does anybody have an experience with raising a child in a trilingual family? I am expecting a baby and want to speak to her in my mother language (Czech), my partner is English and we live in Spain. We speak English at home and are having a dilemma whether to speak Czech-English (she will learn Spanish at school) or me speaking Czech- my partner Spanish to her and my partner and me speaking English together. Any advice is appretiated.Thanks

Answer 1

I'm from Argentina, my husband is from Japan, we live in America.  There's three languages: Castellano, Japanese, and English.

My husband and I speak in Japanese typically.  But, when I am home alone with the baby, I speak in Castellano (Argentinian Spanish).

If we are out, grocery shopping or at the mall, whatever, then I use English.

My son will be able to fully learn English at school, and we are sending him to a Japanese school as well so he can read/write in Japanese.  

Answer 2

well im 15 but my condotion is easier

im from haiti

we speak creole. my parents learned french. we aslo speak english. sorry about the advice but.

wait did you say partner. tell me you aint g*y uhhhh

Answer 3

it's more benefit on your child to be able to learn that many languages. Don't worry about it, your child will differentiate the languages as he get old. I grew up learning 4 + languages.  

Answer 4

I'm wondering the same thing.

I'm Puerto Rican, (Spanish native speaker, fluent in English), my husband is Albanian (Speaks Albanian, Italian and English) and We live in Florida...

When we start having kids, I'm wondering what's the best way to have the child speak as many languages as possible...

I know my mother in law will teach them Albanian... I want to teach them Spanish, and I know they'll learn English as well...

I'm hoping to learn Albanian before they come along, so I won't be left out!

Good Luck to our kids!

Answer 5

Why not just speak in english to the child when at home at let the child learn spanish naturally...

Answer 6

I grew up bilingual..more fluent in Polish first but then got better in English when I went to school.

No matter what you chose you should make one of those languages English I think..so that you can speak it all together. Kids are pretty good at picking up languages so if you want your child to be trilingual the more power to you. Just make sure you child can communicate with both parents and knows the language of the country you live in.

Answer 7

It is easier to learn languages as a child. Try all three, if it doesn't seem to go over too well, bring it down to two. Good luck!