I used to speak only English with my daughter when she was 3 months old, and when she started speaking, she would only speak in English. When she was 5, I enrolled her in daycare, and she had trouble communicating with her teachers and classmates. The teacher called me for a meeting and begged me to start talking to her only in Portuguese. I won't lie, that frustrated me a lot because I was really proud of that. She's now 7, and she did learn Portuguese, and now I speak to her in both languages. However, she mostly speaks only Portuguese, unless, of course, she wants something haha.
Thanks for sharing. Yes, sometimes you do need to have a support from teachers and their readiness to help, not ask you to switch to Portuguese. Do you think you would choose differently now if you come back to that moment in life?
@@HelenGelen_ devia ter continuado falando com ela em inglês, até por que, ela tem todas as outras pessoas ao redor dela pra ensinar português pra ela, mas só tu pra ensinar inglês
Wow amazing! Most of the time I talk with my daughter she is thirteen years old and she understands many words I consider a good strategy to talk in English every day at home.
My name is Sonu Rana from India. Recently, I got 7.5 bands in IELTS examination with the help of real-life English so I'm very thankful for all the teams, teacher's who are working too much hard for us.😊😊😊
If you are lucky enough to have a bilingual environment at home since childhood, you have a high percentage to be fluent in multiple languages. However, based on my experience, you can do it even in your adulthood, obtaining good results. I think as a single adult you are more consistent in your studies, learning a language might turn into a real passion to be proud of and of course, you are more exposed to travel and put into practice your linguistic repertoire even though I am a galaxy away to be considered exceptional at using the English language. "Never stop learning" is the mantra to repeat.
I think that the best time to learn a second language is since I started to learn how to speak. A mean when they are little children. Thank so much for this strategics I am gonna apply with my brother cause he is now in the elementary school and his native language is Spanish. 😊
I don't know guys... We hadn't a true strategy with ou son but he is completly bilingue in french (we live in paris) and italian. We spent the first part of his life in Verona (north of italy). So we spoke and speak both languages during the day with our son. Tu summ up: we haven't a strategy but this "no-strategy" works pretty well. Our son speaks perfectly italian and french.
I think that the best age for learning a second language is from the beginning of the school period, because the child is already learning to find and use new information, there is rivalry among classmates and I think this is the best time to learn a language. If one of the parents knows the necessary second language, then it's possible from an earlier age. Thank you for the video!
Wonderful video. Communication is such a powerful skill that sharing language knowledge with them is one of the move. Thanks Cassé and Thiago! Nice seeing you again on that Cassé. I hope everything has gone swimmingly so far.
Hey guys, this channel has lots of awesome content. I’m a Brazilian father of a 2y 5m boy in which I’ve been talking in English since my wife’s late pregnancy (silly or not, I did it). We decided to use the One Person One Language method with him. Nowadays, at least in my perception, he understands pretty much the same as other kids understand, but in Portuguese and English. Although his main language is Portuguese, every now and then he “drops” some words and phrases in English. It has been tremendously gratifying to me to talk with him, only in English, and he understands almost everything, whereas answering mostly in Portuguese. In my point of view, all that people say about delayed speech in every bilingual kid is a myth. It can happen, but in most cases, it will work.
I think that the best age to start learning a new language is when the child start speak the first leanguage easily and confidenly and start to understand what the languages are.
In my opinion absorbing languages start in the early age of child , child learn and absorb what their familly do specially languages, so we should redesign the environment to be convenient to children to all them to absorbing the languge
Thank you for creating this App! I downloaded it and love using it. It helps me a lot to improve my fluency and I also like a function where I can find a speaking partner. For me, it is very helpful and I also like using these virtual coins. Thanks a million. I am into all your podcasts!
Hey there! I'm an English teacher and I'm all about getting moms to see the benefits of teaching their little ones English from a young age. I was wondering if I could have your permission to share your videos with my followers? And if it's cool with you, I'd love to translate them into my language before sharing. Thanks!
In my opinion the ideal age for someone to start learning a second language is from the 7th month. I have a 2 year old son myself and I’ve been applying the one parent one language method since he was 7 months old. I have also done some research on Stephen Krashen’s second language acquisition to complement the method.
I think if you have the opportunity to arrange "exposure and immersion" for your child - then do it as early as possible. BUT it can be arranged only if you live in an English speaking country. So if you can't "immerse" I think the best age to start learning is 10 years old (it will be much faster than if you torture the child with English at 7 or 8).
I rechon that a L2 language is encountered during (10-12) years due to in their early teens are quicker and more effective learners than 7or 8 years old. So that i suppost 10-12 is the optimum age .
I'm leaving in India I speak 4th language is ahirani , marathi, gujarati, Hindi, i dont do any exercise to learn but I'm learnt because my sorouding people speak this kind of language that's why I speak this languages and india also have so much diversity languages 🤗
I think the best age to start studying second language is at 5 years, because at that time the kids kwon a lot of vocabulary that is easy to learn in a new language, I would have liked to have started at that age
Hi, and thanks for your helpful content. I would like to ask a question here. I'm an English teacher based in Iran, and in our case, there are many families who would like to raise bilingual child but they're whether not fluent in English themselves or not confident enough to use it at home with their child. So, is it possible to raise a bilingual child without parents being involved and in a second, different, and specific environment? I mean, they would learn English pretty well, but is this experience still called bilingualism?
Sure, if let's say the child has continuous exposure to the second language out of home, that also counts. If a kid speaks 2 languages interchangeably, it doesn't matter if it were the parents who taught the second language to them or it came from another source - school, private teacher, English speaking groups. But this is something to start early on and keep it during a long period of time.
I didn’t feel comfortable speaking English to my kid since this is my second language and now that she’s 5, it seems like it’s late. When I try to tell her instructions or whatever, she gets really frustrated that she won’t immediately understand. She’ll get mad and beg me to speak French instead. I think I should’ve started younger but I had a bad depression and I didn’t have the energy for it. I hope I can "make it right" now but that sounds complicated.
Take baby steps, and maybe make your instructions really simple and as obvious as possible (like in Casse's example when you show something to a kid and name it or name an action). 5 years isn't too old. Just be patient with your kid. You definitely don't wanna make her hate English, right? So maybe use it during play time?
@@RealLifeEnglish1 Yes exactly, as soon as she gets frustrated I switch back to French of course and I never get angry with her for that reason. She’s starting to write and really wants to learn so sometimes I spell everyday life words in English, like one English word for 4 French words if that makes sense. I often use English to congratulate her too. 🤣
My boy is 2. Time and place is really good because he knows to expect Hindi at snack time, at our friend's house, when we do sensory play, and when we are with others. He will actually get mad and cry if I randomly read another language. The same book he will cry but at snack time he asked me to read it 4 times. Time and place also prepares the brain. It's not so much about kids understanding the why, but maybe about the brain thing in that language I'm not strong enough to do my non native languages all the time (at home or out). I don't expect fluency but at 2 he is having small conversations with our Indian friends and he will do bilingual things with mixing ASL and spoken English. We sporadically do sign as I'm better at it.
Ya i think the best age for starting learning a second language is 3-4 years old i have experienced it and its normal in our city i live in a city where native language is sindhi in sindh Pakistan we watch cartoons in Urdu or hindi when we was young after just 2 years later we easily can understand urdu and hindi that's why this age is best and movies series and Cartoons are the best source to learn a second language thanks ❤❤❤
Thanks so much for sharing that! Definitely it's so much easier to learn a second language as a child, but it's never too late - it's possible to do it at any age, it'll just be not that "natural" maybe, and not so quickly as we don't have so much free time as kids do. Thank you for learning with us!
I want to learn English to teach my daughter, however I’m beginner in English. I’ve been learning English for 3 months now and I have afraid to talk with her in English because I don’t know many words in English! she has one and half year old , she is beginning to speak some words in Portuguese. I want to improve my English to talk with her only in English.
Thank you so much for the video, I do appreciate it. I'm going to speak with my future children in English and other languages that I'm going to learn. By the way I'm fourteen and now I know four languages, Ukrainian, Russian, English and a little bit of French. I'm certain my future children are going to be polyglots when they are only six or nearly this years old.😊😊 In general today's topic is essential to me, I love languages, they are in my blood.
Hi there mahlasoltani! Thank YOU for watching and learning with us! ❤ Please write us at fluencyteam@reallifeglobal.com - we will be happy to share some articles with you! ;)
Dear mam I am good at grammer but I can't fame that kind of sentences that cannot be translated from Hindi to English. How to connect the word to word while giving speech. Could you please tell me.
This is a difficult topic for me. As a mom of 3 children I can say that it depends on the child. My son can easily switch to one of the three languages he speaks, but my oldest daughter can't do it easily, she even refuses to speak our native languages at home (since we live in an English speaking country and she goes to school here). My youngest daughter, as mentioned in this podcast, has some speech problems due to multilingualism, and she mixes words from different languages. As parents, we try to keep our native languages, but it's so hard, even though we speak it at home every day
Um I deem that the best for learning second language is 5 cuz at this age child can learn that language in more obvious way, but if he or she learn that language in their later age it would become more ardous for them moreover they can learn their mothertouge as well till five years
I wanna an African nany that speaks Turkish for my kids and will braid my hair, too. While we live in USA, Keanu and our kids need to speak Turkish. 😅 Because I wanna it,too.
I wanted my niece who is 11 Years old start to learning a new language it could be Spanish or English i don't mind, she is always spending all her free time watching stupid UA-camrs I have probably made many mistakes, but that's how you learn right? 😂😂
Hey llxcas_, thanks for writing! You did a great job, no worries! :) But hey, here's a tip: You can suggest similar content to her in a new language! Learning through content that resonates and/or is interesting to us plays a big role in our learning experience! ;)
Hi, and thanks for your helpful content. I would like to ask a question here. I'm an English teacher based in Iran, and in our case, there are many families who would like to raise bilingual child but they're whether not fluent in English themselves or not confident enough to use it at home with their child. So, is it possible to raise a bilingual child without parents being involved and in a second, different, and specific environment? I mean, they would learn English pretty well, but is this experience still called bilingualism?
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I used to speak only English with my daughter when she was 3 months old, and when she started speaking, she would only speak in English. When she was 5, I enrolled her in daycare, and she had trouble communicating with her teachers and classmates. The teacher called me for a meeting and begged me to start talking to her only in Portuguese. I won't lie, that frustrated me a lot because I was really proud of that. She's now 7, and she did learn Portuguese, and now I speak to her in both languages. However, she mostly speaks only Portuguese, unless, of course, she wants something haha.
Nice, Marcos)
Any tips btw for an adult to learn Portuguese? I am in Portugal for a year...
Thanks for sharing. Yes, sometimes you do need to have a support from teachers and their readiness to help, not ask you to switch to Portuguese. Do you think you would choose differently now if you come back to that moment in life?
@@HelenGelen_ devia ter continuado falando com ela em inglês, até por que, ela tem todas as outras pessoas ao redor dela pra ensinar português pra ela, mas só tu pra ensinar inglês
Wow amazing! Most of the time I talk with my daughter she is thirteen years old and she understands many words I consider a good strategy to talk in English every day at home.
That's interesting.
How many languages can you speak?
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My name is Sonu Rana from India. Recently, I got 7.5 bands in IELTS examination with the help of real-life English so I'm very thankful for all the teams, teacher's who are working too much hard for us.😊😊😊
Amazing! Congrats ✨🎉
How it's useful for you plz guide me
@@mannustar6347 Sure 😃
If you are lucky enough to have a bilingual environment at home since childhood, you have a high percentage to be fluent in multiple languages. However, based on my experience, you can do it even in your adulthood, obtaining good results. I think as a single adult you are more consistent in your studies, learning a language might turn into a real passion to be proud of and of course, you are more exposed to travel and put into practice your linguistic repertoire even though I am a galaxy away to be considered exceptional at using the English language. "Never stop learning" is the mantra to repeat.
What an enjoyable podcast to listen to.
I think that the best time to learn a second language is since I started to learn how to speak. A mean when they are little children. Thank so much for this strategics I am gonna apply with my brother cause he is now in the elementary school and his native language is Spanish. 😊
I don't know guys...
We hadn't a true strategy with ou son but he is completly bilingue in french (we live in paris) and italian. We spent the first part of his life in Verona (north of italy). So we spoke and speak both languages during the day with our son. Tu summ up: we haven't a strategy but this "no-strategy" works pretty well. Our son speaks perfectly italian and french.
I think that the best age for learning a second language is from the beginning of the school period, because the child is already learning to find and use new information, there is rivalry among classmates and I think this is the best time to learn a language. If one of the parents knows the necessary second language, then it's possible from an earlier age. Thank you for the video!
Thanks for watching it and for sharing your thoughts with us!
You speak well in English where and how did you learn..
@@Sigmamaqa Thank you for the compliment😊 I study only for 1 year with tutors and on my own
Wonderful video. Communication is such a powerful skill that sharing language knowledge with them is one of the move.
Thanks Cassé and Thiago!
Nice seeing you again on that Cassé.
I hope everything has gone swimmingly so far.
Thanks a lot for the podcast.. Podcasts like these would help all learners to improve their English up to the highest level.
Hello, I really enjoy your conversations!
Hey guys, this channel has lots of awesome content.
I’m a Brazilian father of a 2y 5m boy in which I’ve been talking in English since my wife’s late pregnancy (silly or not, I did it).
We decided to use the One Person One Language method with him. Nowadays, at least in my perception, he understands pretty much the same as other kids understand, but in Portuguese and English.
Although his main language is Portuguese, every now and then he “drops” some words and phrases in English.
It has been tremendously gratifying to me to talk with him, only in English, and he understands almost everything, whereas answering mostly in Portuguese.
In my point of view, all that people say about delayed speech in every bilingual kid is a myth. It can happen, but in most cases, it will work.
I think that the best age to start learning a new language is when the child start speak the first leanguage easily and confidenly and start to understand what the languages are.
It's a important topic because i want to raise my kis with English, Spanish and Portuguese
In my opinion absorbing languages start in the early age of child , child learn and absorb what their familly do specially languages, so we should redesign the environment to be convenient to children to all them to absorbing the languge
Thank you for creating this App! I downloaded it and love using it. It helps me a lot to improve my fluency and I also like a function where I can find a speaking partner. For me, it is very helpful and I also like using these virtual coins. Thanks a million. I am into all your podcasts!
I need to break the habit of stuttering in English and I'm sure I can cause your video always grows my booster
Thank you❤
No way why we don’t have a lot of followers because we are great teachers guys and our knowledge cost an arm and a leg but we don’t take anything .
I am happy, i found this chanel
We're happy too! Welcome to our channel, Kirill!
Hey there! I'm an English teacher and I'm all about getting moms to see the benefits of teaching their little ones English from a young age. I was wondering if I could have your permission to share your videos with my followers? And if it's cool with you, I'd love to translate them into my language before sharing. Thanks!
In my opinion the ideal age for someone to start learning a second language is from the 7th month. I have a 2 year old son myself and I’ve been applying the one parent one language method since he was 7 months old. I have also done some research on Stephen Krashen’s second language acquisition to complement the method.
Good job!
I’m agree with Harold too. Hi from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴👋🇩🇴
Very useful experience-based tips for teaching English to young learner. Many thanks.
I think if you have the opportunity to arrange "exposure and immersion" for your child - then do it as early as possible. BUT it can be arranged only if you live in an English speaking country. So if you can't "immerse" I think the best age to start learning is 10 years old (it will be much faster than if you torture the child with English at 7 or 8).
It's awesome to listen to your speech , it's realy helpful and great, go on and thanks a lot...
Great video, thanx. Would be great to get an advise what to do when a kid doesn't answer in english when a parent talks to him.
Hi guys! Thanks for your job. From Dominicsn Republic
I rechon that a L2 language is encountered during (10-12) years due to in their early teens are quicker and more effective learners than 7or 8 years old. So that i suppost 10-12 is the optimum age .
I have been learning a lot from you guys.
Thanks guys ❤️❤️❤️👏
I'm leaving in India I speak 4th language is ahirani , marathi, gujarati, Hindi, i dont do any exercise to learn but I'm learnt because my sorouding people speak this kind of language that's why I speak this languages and india also have so much diversity languages 🤗
I think the best age to start studying second language is at 5 years, because at that time the kids kwon a lot of vocabulary that is easy to learn in a new language, I would have liked to have started at that age
Hi, and thanks for your helpful content. I would like to ask a question here. I'm an English teacher based in Iran, and in our case, there are many families who would like to raise bilingual child but they're whether not fluent in English themselves or not confident enough to use it at home with their child. So, is it possible to raise a bilingual child without parents being involved and in a second, different, and specific environment? I mean, they would learn English pretty well, but is this experience still called bilingualism?
Sure, if let's say the child has continuous exposure to the second language out of home, that also counts. If a kid speaks 2 languages interchangeably, it doesn't matter if it were the parents who taught the second language to them or it came from another source - school, private teacher, English speaking groups. But this is something to start early on and keep it during a long period of time.
I didn’t feel comfortable speaking English to my kid since this is my second language and now that she’s 5, it seems like it’s late. When I try to tell her instructions or whatever, she gets really frustrated that she won’t immediately understand. She’ll get mad and beg me to speak French instead. I think I should’ve started younger but I had a bad depression and I didn’t have the energy for it. I hope I can "make it right" now but that sounds complicated.
Take baby steps, and maybe make your instructions really simple and as obvious as possible (like in Casse's example when you show something to a kid and name it or name an action). 5 years isn't too old. Just be patient with your kid. You definitely don't wanna make her hate English, right? So maybe use it during play time?
@@RealLifeEnglish1 Yes exactly, as soon as she gets frustrated I switch back to French of course and I never get angry with her for that reason. She’s starting to write and really wants to learn so sometimes I spell everyday life words in English, like one English word for 4 French words if that makes sense. I often use English to congratulate her too. 🤣
My boy is 2. Time and place is really good because he knows to expect Hindi at snack time, at our friend's house, when we do sensory play, and when we are with others.
He will actually get mad and cry if I randomly read another language. The same book he will cry but at snack time he asked me to read it 4 times.
Time and place also prepares the brain. It's not so much about kids understanding the why, but maybe about the brain thing in that language
I'm not strong enough to do my non native languages all the time (at home or out). I don't expect fluency but at 2 he is having small conversations with our Indian friends and he will do bilingual things with mixing ASL and spoken English. We sporadically do sign as I'm better at it.
Hey there Felicia, thanks for sharing this! ❤️
Thanks
Ya i think the best age for starting learning a second language is 3-4 years old i have experienced it and its normal in our city i live in a city where native language is sindhi in sindh Pakistan we watch cartoons in Urdu or hindi when we was young after just 2 years later we easily can understand urdu and hindi that's why this age is best and movies series and Cartoons are the best source to learn a second language thanks ❤❤❤
Thanks so much for sharing that! Definitely it's so much easier to learn a second language as a child, but it's never too late - it's possible to do it at any age, it'll just be not that "natural" maybe, and not so quickly as we don't have so much free time as kids do. Thank you for learning with us!
❤hi my tache tnk so much l m from san Felipe in the puerto plata Dominica república 🇩🇴☕
I want to learn English to teach my daughter, however I’m beginner in English. I’ve been learning English for 3 months now and I have afraid to talk with her in English because I don’t know many words in English! she has one and half year old , she is beginning to speak some words in Portuguese. I want to improve my English to talk with her only in English.
Hey, write to us at fluencyteam@reallifeglobal.com so we can help you to boost your English!
Thank you so much for the video, I do appreciate it.
I'm going to speak with my future children in English and other languages that I'm going to learn.
By the way I'm fourteen and now I know four languages, Ukrainian, Russian, English and a little bit of French.
I'm certain my future children are going to be polyglots when they are only six or nearly this years old.😊😊
In general today's topic is essential to me, I love languages, they are in my blood.
Hi there Artem,
Thank YOU for sharing this. We're super happy to hear that!
Btw, 4 languages! Impressive! YOU ROCK!
Keep up the great work, Artem! ❤️
Thank you so much !!!!!
I want to share my experience throughout an episode. Please reply to me 😊
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I love the real life english app but why you guys don't do it available in all the devices such as windows laptops and mackbooks?
I believe it should be available on MacBook.
Thank you for your video🤍How can I improve my writing?for IELTS exam
Hi there mahlasoltani! Thank YOU for watching and learning with us! ❤
Please write us at fluencyteam@reallifeglobal.com - we will be happy to share some articles with you! ;)
Since born
What is different between multilingual vs bilingual vs monolingual vs polyglot ?
That's a great question. I personally think that the younger a person is, the faster he or she learns. I hope to be wrong.
Dear mam I am good at grammer but I can't fame that kind of sentences that cannot be translated from Hindi to English.
How to connect the word to word while giving speech.
Could you please tell me.
Amazings
This is a difficult topic for me. As a mom of 3 children I can say that it depends on the child. My son can easily switch to one of the three languages he speaks, but my oldest daughter can't do it easily, she even refuses to speak our native languages at home (since we live in an English speaking country and she goes to school here). My youngest daughter, as mentioned in this podcast, has some speech problems due to multilingualism, and she mixes words from different languages. As parents, we try to keep our native languages, but it's so hard, even though we speak it at home every day
Exactly, it depends on child. My daughters speaking skills are better than sons
Oh yeah
Um I deem that the best for learning second language is 5 cuz at this age child can learn that language in more obvious way, but if he or she learn that language in their later age it would become more ardous for them moreover they can learn their mothertouge as well till five years
I wanna an African nany that speaks Turkish for my kids and will braid my hair, too. While we live in USA, Keanu and our kids need to speak Turkish. 😅 Because I wanna it,too.
No, I'm Türk, my soulmate is from Beyrut, Canada, Amerika. 😅 😅 😅
Funny story you told about your son 😅
Hey, Casse. Can we know your full name?
Your podcasts are always really useful and enjoyable! Thanks a lot ❤
Thanks a lot!
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I wanted my niece who is 11 Years old start to learning a new language it could be Spanish or English i don't mind, she is always spending all her free time watching stupid UA-camrs
I have probably made many mistakes, but that's how you learn right? 😂😂
Hey llxcas_, thanks for writing! You did a great job, no worries! :)
But hey, here's a tip: You can suggest similar content to her in a new language! Learning through content that resonates and/or is interesting to us plays a big role in our learning experience! ;)
@@RealLifeEnglish1I'll do it 🙂👍
I would've liked to be colonized by an English nation.. but unfortunately it was France.. and I can't believe
If you have WhatsApp we can also chat there
Hi, and thanks for your helpful content. I would like to ask a question here. I'm an English teacher based in Iran, and in our case, there are many families who would like to raise bilingual child but they're whether not fluent in English themselves or not confident enough to use it at home with their child. So, is it possible to raise a bilingual child without parents being involved and in a second, different, and specific environment? I mean, they would learn English pretty well, but is this experience still called bilingualism?