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Raising my children bilingually

15 Oct

Visit with Vanaema and Vanaisa (Grandmother and Grandfather)

For the past 8 days the girls, Daddy and I visited my parents.  This involved 6 hours on an airplane each way.  The good news is that we had the best flights ever.  The girls were great and for the most part, the travels were painless and not unpleasant.  A is picking up new words like crazy and the timing was great for her to be exposed to more Estonian speaking other than just K and me.  As far as I can tell A still doesn’t know she speaks two languages, though she is getting close.  Or maybe she already knows and I am a step behind, as usually, in noticing A’s development.  Either way, she is doing very well, follows instructions in two languages and we have no communication issues at all.  We understand each other very well in two languages which is all I could ask for at this point.

K is still mostly speaking to everyone in English, though with the added Estonian language exposure, perhaps was saying a bit more in Estonian.  K still speaks to A entirely in English and I am not quite sure how I can change that though it is something I want to work on.  I just have to be careful not to nag and just to offer occassional, friendly reminders to try to get them started. This is clearly my next challenge.

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