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[quote=Anonymous]When my kids were very little, I tried to speak to them in my parents' language.  But, it was too hard to keep doing that because 1. I am not very good at speaking the language myself 2. there was no one around for me or them to speak it with.  So, I dropped it.

Later, when they were older ES, I told them I was thinking of putting them into language school. They balked and resisted. So, I relented.

They are now in HS/college, and we went to visit my parents' country for the first time, and they said they wished they knew how to speak the language.  They want to go back there and be able to converse, even a little bit.  They said they wished that I had pushed them more to send them to the language school. Of course, hindsight is 20/20.   :twisted:

My older DC taught themselves a little bit using an online language app.   They have been asking me questions about the language and how to say xyz..

If they learned the language, they would be a little bit trilingual because they can also speak another language they learned in school enough to get by. [/quote]

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