Comments on: Polyglot http://ghalimi.name/2009/06/24/polyglot/ The personal weblog of Ismael Chang Ghalimi Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:07:59 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ismael Ghalimi http://ghalimi.name/2009/06/24/polyglot/comment-page-1/#comment-522259 Ismael Ghalimi Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:33:41 +0000 http://ghalimi.name/?p=746#comment-522259 Jared, Gene, You're absolutely right. Keeping it up is definitely a challenge. In order to maintain a balanced exposure, we're planning to have her attend a Mandarin-speaking school, either one of the local public schools, or the <a href="http://www.istp.org/" rel="nofollow">International School of the Peninsula in Palo Alto</a>. That way, she will spend most of the day speaking Mandarin, and I will continue teaching her French in the evening. Living in the U.S., English should not be a problem, and living in California creates many opportunities for speaking Spanish. We'll see where this takes us... Jared, Gene,

You’re absolutely right. Keeping it up is definitely a challenge. In order to maintain a balanced exposure, we’re planning to have her attend a Mandarin-speaking school, either one of the local public schools, or the International School of the Peninsula in Palo Alto. That way, she will spend most of the day speaking Mandarin, and I will continue teaching her French in the evening. Living in the U.S., English should not be a problem, and living in California creates many opportunities for speaking Spanish. We’ll see where this takes us…

]]> By: Gene Golovchinsky http://ghalimi.name/2009/06/24/polyglot/comment-page-1/#comment-522228 Gene Golovchinsky Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:49:48 +0000 http://ghalimi.name/?p=746#comment-522228 Consistency is key! Cases like Neige have been described in other places, including the book Raising Multilingual Children. My experience with this (we are raising my son bilingually) is that while the kid can learn more than one language, at some point imbalances in exposure will produce differential expertise. At 28 months, my son's proficiency in English and Russian was more similar than now at 3.5 years; English is (slowly) taking over. I wrote some of this up a while ago on my <a href="http://palblog.fxpal.com/?p=431" rel="nofollow">blog</a>. Consistency is key! Cases like Neige have been described in other places, including the book Raising Multilingual Children. My experience with this (we are raising my son bilingually) is that while the kid can learn more than one language, at some point imbalances in exposure will produce differential expertise. At 28 months, my son’s proficiency in English and Russian was more similar than now at 3.5 years; English is (slowly) taking over.

I wrote some of this up a while ago on my blog.

]]> By: Jared Goralnick http://ghalimi.name/2009/06/24/polyglot/comment-page-1/#comment-522208 Jared Goralnick Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:36:35 +0000 http://ghalimi.name/?p=746#comment-522208 Fascinating, and it makes me only a little jealous... I wish you much luck in continuing to raise her with 4 languages. Fascinating, and it makes me only a little jealous…

I wish you much luck in continuing to raise her with 4 languages.

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