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Hi Skatty,
My name is Luciano. Don’t worry! I am Spanish and I have been living in UK for nearly 15 years. I’ve two children ages 4 and 6. Both born in UK and both are bilingual. You have done the right things with your daughter. Try to come to UK as much as you can with your daughter. Also try to engage her us much as you can with your family and culture. Children with that age and bilingual tend to be a bit quite. Don’t worry if that is your case. She’ll be fluent very quickly and you will see massive progress in the next 2 years. However you keep talking all the time in English as I do Spanish with my children. Keep talking English even if she starts talking you in Danish later. Don’t get angry however say to her now tell me in English. Don’t do that if she is too tired after school. You don’t want to put her of. And remember everything she already learnt including her English accent she will never forget it. You just need to be cosistent as you are already. “Muy bien” Very good and “Buena suerte” good luck.

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]]> Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:56:45 +0100 Dirk on Hello, I am the first to post!! http://www.raising-bilingual-children.com/forum/experiences-as-parents/hello-i-am-the-first-to-post/#p2 Experiences as parents http://www.raising-bilingual-children.com/forum/experiences-as-parents/hello-i-am-the-first-to-post/#p2 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:33:52 +0100 skatty on Hello, I am the first to post!! http://www.raising-bilingual-children.com/forum/experiences-as-parents/hello-i-am-the-first-to-post/#p1 Experiences as parents http://www.raising-bilingual-children.com/forum/experiences-as-parents/hello-i-am-the-first-to-post/#p1 ML@H and so far my daughter's first langauge is very much English as I stayed home with her for 2½ years. She now speaks Danish as she is in full time nursery but not on the same level as the average Danish kid her age, I am fine with that and judging by how quickly she has started to speak Danish I don't think she will have any problems. I do worry about her English though, she already tries to speak a lot of Danish with her dad even though we are pretty strict with only watching English TV and dvds 95% of the time and all her books are English and we read to her a lot, she loves books :) My pet peeves are people who tell me how "lucky" she is to have two languages and think it all just comes for free with no sacrifices or work! I also get annoyed with people telling me that she will learn English in school anyway and everyone speaks English! There is a big difference in speaking a langauage than having native like competence which is my aim for my dd, if she chooses to spend time in England studying then I want to it to be as easy as possible for her. We have pondered over whether to add a 3rd langauge and how we could do that but I am wondering if it is better to focus our energies on her being as balanced a bilingual as she can be or have another language and not reach her top potential in English, I think practicalities mean focusing on the English is the best for now. Anyway that's it for now, I'd love to hear others experiences, see you Katt :) ]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:50:20 +0100