A family in which the parents speak different languages - is not uncommon, however, in this case it is necessary to think about how to communicate with the child. The fact that the baby almost from birth will hear, remember and subsequently speak two languages.
It is only important to follow a few simple rules, the child began to speak more quickly.
The main rule of successful language acquisition baby - every parent should communicate with them in their native language. Among themselves, parents can speak in any language convenient for them, but with the baby only on her. If you constantly switch from one language to another, in the mind of the child will be confusion, and he can not put the correct speech designs. A child from the very young age can differentiate it - with his mother, he will babble in Russian, with the pope - in English.
Language of the country where you live most of the time, a priori, will be the mother tongue of your baby. In kindergarten, the school and on the streets, he will continue to hear and memorize it. Communication with peers will only help to improve speech, daily practice will bring fast results. Your task is to develop the child's second language. Communicate at home in their native language, read books, watch cartoons and TV shows. The disadvantage is that it, in which communication takes place only at home, risking only stay conversational. If for you it is important that the child has mastered the skills of writing, hire a tutor who taught to read and write.
Do not replace the words of the native language on the "alien", it may be easier to you and your husband to understand each other, but the purity of speech on this very suffering. Do not be like the words of a language that has already learned and tells the child to another language, with time he will learn both the will and the right to speak, but not as convenient. Mixing languages, you mix them in the child's mind, and then it will be difficult to master any of them perfectly.
usually it works well, "one parent - one language" for better absorption of the language, but you can make an exception when such dad-an Englishman does not understand the Russian language. In this case, the mother goes to communicate in English, so that the other parent does not "fall out" of the conversation. This will not affect the baby's speech, because my mother spends with the child more time talking to their mother.
