How to speak to Bilingual and trilingual babies? Tips to Increase and Ensure Sufficient Language Input

Published on 30 November 2022 at 15:40

"Language input" in general means all sources of language your child is exposed to, and quantity, as you may guess, is the number of sources. 

In a case like mine, when I am separated from the country of my native language,  language sources are scarce. To be honest, for several years, I was the only native speaker of Russian miles around, and my kido was shocked when she saw other adults speaking Russian.

There are a few easy tricks on how to increase the amount of language around your baby.

1️⃣ Speak/think aloud - talk about anything when you're around your baby, keep talking all the time

2️⃣ Take turns, and wait for the response - give a child time to reply to participate in the communication

3️⃣ Expand, recast, develop - actively modify baby's speech. Search for "Expand," "recast," and "develop" online or sign up for my online course.

4️⃣ Engage relatives - bring your family into the picture, and make their participation regular

5️⃣ Reduce/refuse from videos - exclude video at all until the age of 4

Stay tuned for more on the basics of multilingual household routines that scaffold language acquisition as a crazy 😜
More on how to increase the amount of language input you may find at @thelanguagething

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