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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you and your spouse speak the same (non English) language?[/quote]

Op here. This is one big issue here as well. DH, American born, can speak some of that non-English language in simple conservation, but he cannot read or write. I am a foreigner, but I don’t speak that non-English language at my home county. That is the third language that I have learned from my home country, which I can write 100%, read 100% but I am not strong on speaking part ( maybe 30%- 40%). That’s why I have no confidence in teaching my American born children here because sometimes people do not understand me when I talk in that language.  :(  I dislike online zoom learning platform because my kids are not doing well at online, but during covid, it is the only way that I can find as of now if I want to do it.

I gave up on teaching my “real” home language which I master because there’s no support from DH ( He does not understand a word), and no support from resources ( no school that I can find in person or virtual ) . It is an uncommon and more difficult language to learn. I have tried but it is really difficult when there’s no support.

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This really does make it hard. I'm bilingual (German/English) and it's just not convenient to speak German around my DH who doesn't understand it. However, because of this, I've made it a "Mommy-daughter time" language and tend to speak it most frequently when my daughter is alone with me. Of course this means that playground parents think I'm an au pair lol[/quote]

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