Parents can successfully bring up their children to be fluent in more than one language in different ways. In many families, each parent speaks only one language with the child. This can also work if a Dadi,nani or grandparent speaks to the child consistently in a language that is different to the one the parents speak. Other families speak a different language in different settings, for example a minority language at home and the majority language in public. There can even be an agreement to speak alternate languages every other day.
Children may become fully bilingual after they start school and learn the majority language. But a common historical phenomenon is that such children later forget the minority language, or retain only a receptive understanding, without full speaking fluency. There may be many complex psychological and social reasons, such as embarrassment at feeling different from peers. Yet in many parts of the world, such as Scandinavia, Switzerland and India, multilingualism is universal and is promoted naturally both in homes and school systems from an early age.
BrainSkill is one such website which you can visit to aid your child.
Indian parents could share their experiences .........
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