10 recommendations to successfully raise a bilingual child:
- Define who speaks which language with your child
- Stick to what you have agreed, don’t mix or change back and forth
- Accept deviations to the rule
- Take equal care of the strong and the weak language
- Be aware of the advantages of a bilingual education, but realize that there are some drawbacks and problems
- Realize that you as parents have an outstanding role in the multilingual education
- Be prepared that some problems and challenges will arise
- Strengthen the language development process by using different tools during the different development phases
- Build up a social network in the second language of your child
- Don’t give up easy