Hi. One quick note in response to Marco of Italy (living in Argentina)that relates to what I want to ask: You mentioned that your daughter speaks/understands both Spanish and Italian. Are you teaching your daughter English too? Yours seems perfectly fluent, so I just wondered if you're sharing that with Julia or not...
In our case, we are generally doing opol (me English, hubby Spanish), but we both speak Japanese as well (dh is conversational, I'm fluent and a professional Jps-Eng translator). We met in Japan and just left there last year (when ds was 2 yrs 2 mos). Although our son did hear and understand some Japanese when we were in Tokyo, we didn't make an effort to teach him any, because 1)we wanted to be sure he got Eng and Spanish and didn't get confused, and 2)we knew we would leave soon and we are not likely to return to LIVE there at least for several more years, so we figured there was no need for him to learn it. Now we're thinking of teaching Jpns too to our kids (son is now 3 yrs 5 mos, daughter 11 mos). Shafer (son) can recognize and repeat a few words and I suspect he could learn it if given the opportunity, but I'm not sure how or WHEN to introduce it. Right now we're focusing on getting his English up to speed for when we move from Peru to the US (probably in July), because his spoken Spanish is much stronger than his English (still quite broken, tho he understands everything). So I don't want to mess up that process. But I also don't want to wait too late and miss some window of opportunity in terms of his mental ability to add in a 3rd language. For what it's worth, there are no other Jpns speakers around us here, and there probably won't be in Texas either. So his exposure would probably be just from us (mostly me) and other media (videos, CDs, computer, etc.), and the occasional visit from friends. Any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks, Shannon in Peru (mom English, dh Spanish, ds 3, dd nearly 1) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/KZzaMD/.WnJAA/HwKMAA/W_NqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multilingualmunchkin/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
