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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am bilingual (English and Russian). I was born here but my parents are from the Soviet Union. [b]I never went to language school but I speak fluent Russian because we always spoke it at home, [/b]and I taught myself how to read Russian at 12. [b]My mom only spoke to us in Russian and my dad spoke to us in English and Russian as he was fluent in English but my mom wasn't. [/b]She was fluent enough to talk to teachers though. My sister doesn't know Russian as well as I do. I think talking to her in Korean and having her watch Korean TV, etc. will help. How did you learn your first language?[/quote]

Exactly. It's about using it consistently and expecting the kids to use it with you too (which is harder than just allowing them to use the dominant language over and over again).[/quote]
Nope, not really, this poster used Russian with her mom because she had to as mom spoke no English.[b] It's a lot harder when the kid knows you speak English perfectly well.[/b][/quote]

Some people aren't up for consistency. However, there's nothing stopping you from doing this if you actually prioritize it. We raised our kids trilingually in English, Japanese, and Swedish. The kids got constant reminders that we spoke English because we used it with each other but never with them. They still learned all three because we made it clear from day one that they needed to speak to us in not-English. If you don't want to try that hard, that's fine.[/quote]

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