mom speaks Czech, Dad speaks Slovak and we live in US?
2007-03-01 08:46:20 · 17 answers · asked by hvezda 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
I speak to my husband in Czech and he speaks to me in Slovak, we understand each other.
2007-03-01 08:55:19 · update #1
Most likely whichever one is spoken most around the child but I can guarantee that it'll eventually be all 3.
I've had a friend who started out speaking Bulgarian because that's where her parents are from. Another started out w/ Polish. Both are now very bilingual. (It's amusing but cool at the same time hearing them argue w/ their parents in the other language. lol!)
I just recently learned that my dad's first language wasn't english. It was Polish in fact because that's all his grandparents knew & spoke while he was growing up & learning to speak. (Him, his parents & grandparents all lived in the same house.) To this day I wouldn't have known it if it weren't for my German-born neighbor asking him about it because she was able to catch a slight accent (that we've never noticed) when speaking w/ him.
2007-03-01 09:00:40 · answer #1 · answered by §uper ®ose 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The child will speak Ceskoslovenglish. ;) Well, most likely the child will learn all three languages and be able to speak all of them. Children learn languages very easily when they hear them around themselves in daily life. Maybe at first the child will sometimes mix them a bit together, especially Czech and Slovak because they are so similar, but with time the child will learn to keep them separated and will use the appropriate one each time. The child will be multilingual, which I think is cool and great for the kid. :)
2007-03-05 03:30:19 · answer #2 · answered by undir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your child will learn any language you teach them. You can teach them all 3 if you want. It would be best to start out with English, and work towards Czech abd Slovak when the child is older.
2007-03-01 08:53:30 · answer #3 · answered by Popsicle_1989 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A friend of mine is married to a man that speaks Spanish and she speaks English. They spoke both languages to their son at the same time. It took him a lot longer to start talking but when he did he spoke both and that was the cause of the delay. He was learning and processing both. So I would think that the child will speak what he hears the most so possibly all three. Keep it up to, I think everyone should learn more than just English, it helps us be more well rounded individuals!
2007-03-01 09:00:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have friends who raised a daughter in similar circumstances - the mom speaks Finnish, dad speaks French, and the girl was raised for the first 5 or 6 years of her life in the U.S.
They wanted her to grow up speaking English, Finnish and French fluently, so the mom spoke to her daughter only in Finnish; the dad spoke to her only in French. She heard English being spoken constantly in play-groups, by her nanny (she had a full-time nanny as of age 1 who was always English-speaking) and every time she was outside the house.
She is a bright girl, and by age 3 was speaking all 3 languages fluently. She would respond in whatever language she was being addressed in.
2007-03-01 08:56:17 · answer #5 · answered by Sarah 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Whatever language the parents speak to one another around the child will probably be the first language, and eventually if the child is exposed to all three (including english) they will speak all of them (and without an accent!).
2007-03-01 08:50:59 · answer #6 · answered by Heather Y 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it will speak the one it is talked to the most. I am white and my man is Mexican and our son speaks English but, he also understands his dad. He does speak some Spanish my son is 3 years old. He is around more English speaking people so that is his first language.
2007-03-03 15:46:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The baby native's tongue will be english because you will be most likely raising them in the U.S. But will also speak what u and your husband speak as a second and third language, if you wanted your baby to speak the same language as you. Your baby is going to be very talented!!! Congrats and Good Luck!!!
2007-03-01 08:51:13 · answer #8 · answered by Victoria A 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Congratulations, you'll have multilingual baby.
I know a family, where father is Hungarian, mother is Slovakian, they live in Canada an their kids (12 and 10 years old) speak four languages.
2007-03-02 04:41:43 · answer #9 · answered by Katrina G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what is spoken at home. That's what he will learn first. Little kids pick up languages very easily. With multiple languages in a household, this a perfect opportunity to get him comfortable with them all.
2007-03-01 08:51:51 · answer #10 · answered by kj 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋