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5:13 am
QuoteHi Manal,
Glad to be part of this research! Would you mind sharing more details? (sorry if it's posted somewhere else, I cannot see it!)
We are a Franco-Mexican family living in England. We speak to our son in Spanish and French respectively (OPOL), he attends nursery where everyone speaks English and my husband and I communicate with each other in English.
Exciting, thanks!
Manal said:
Thanks…Looking for more families still to get more credible results. This research can help families check whether or not their linguistic practices are on the right track. If you feel your family fits the criteria above, please join us on our exploratory research. Looking forward to hearing from you.
1:00 am
Hi M,
I am japanese, my husband is from south india.
We have Our little one, 7 months. We communicate with each other using English. We live in London, England. Happy to help you in your research. Junkom46@gmail.com. Please forward the details.
Wish you all the very best in your research.
Wishes
Junko.
3:29 am
Hello,
I am Spanish and my husband is English. We each speak our language to our baby, 3 months old. We speak mostly English at home between the two of us. We live in Paris, France (baby was born here). We speak French when we are with French friends or in "French daily life".
Good luck with your project, ad please share any information and findings!!
Cristina
2:01 pm
Hi,
Just in case you get desperate, but by the looks of the response, you won't – we're an Albanian dad, English mum living in Italy. We use OPOL with the kids (aged 4 and 1) and an interesting mix of English, Italian and occasional Albanian or Spanish with each other. Any good?
Kate
5:59 am
Hello! I'm Brazilian, my husband, Spanish, we live in Malaysia (daily life in English) and our 4 1/2y old goes to the French School. Would love to help you with your research – feel free to email me questions and points to be discusses :)
12:52 am
Thank you all for your posts… more families are needed still. Please, make sure your family meets the criteria of the research before you reply or email, many thanks.
12:12 pm
Hi Manal, I don't see the criteria — can you give more details or show me where to look? We're a US mom, Peruvian dad living in US now but previously in Japan, teaching the kids both Jpns and Spanish. Does that fit?
—-OH, nevermind, I just looked on the 1st page of the thread and found the details. Since I'm a native English speaker, I guess I don't qualify. Looks interesting, though! Best of luck!
12:55 am
Hi there.
I speak hungarian and my husband speaks spanish to our daughter. We live in the U.S., so my husband and I communicate in english to each other.
Let me know how I could help.
Petra.
2:31 am
Hi Shannon …thanks for your sweet wishes :)
Hi Petra..yes, you can help…would you, please, send me an email, so that I can contact you?
Many thanks,
Manal
11:57 pm
Manal, never mind. I got your email already. Thanks. Sending you an email right now….
12:09 am
My wife is Chinese, I am German. We live in Beijing and our two children go to the German Embassy school. My wife speaks Mandarin to our children, I speak German to them and when we are all together having dinner we speak English (at least we try). My wife speaks only some German and my Chinese is also limited, so we normally talk mostly in English to eachother.
All the best with your research. If we can be of help, please let us know.
Rudi
5:57 am
Hi Manal,
Interesting research! Would it be possible to be on a mailing list even though my familly doesn' t quite meet the criteria for you?
We are raising trilingual children, but English is one of the home lamguages, this is why I assume we wouldn't be of interest to you, but the general findings would be interesting to read as information on trilingualism is harder to find than bilingualism, and believe me, there are plenty of differences! Thank you.
All the best with your research.
Ursula
Email: mail_ursie@yahoo.co.uk
1:57 am
Hi Rudi and Ursula…Thanks for your interest in this research…. unfortunately, your families don't meet its criteria…I'd be very happy sharing the results with you, Ursula :)
10:24 pm
hi!
we are living in USA, my husband is German, I am Mexican, we are raising 2 girls they are trilingual. our family language is german.
Alex
2:00 am
Hi, our two children (7 and 10 years old) are trilingual – English, Dutch, Turkish. I am Turkish and I mostly speak Turkish to them. My husband is Dutch and he speaks Dutch to them. We are now living in Holland so they get exposed to Dutch a lot and our family language is mostly Dutch. They are attending the British School and their English is their learning and social (among their friends) language. When you ask them which language they feel the most comfortable at, they say English. They recently started learning French at school…
2:33 am
Hi Alex and Fatma…Thanks for your interest in this research… In order to meet this research criteria, parents need to be speakers of languages other than English, speak English to communicate with each other and speak their respective languages with their children. Do your families follow the one parent one language method? Please, let me know.
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