{"id":3724,"date":"2014-10-01T14:41:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T12:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickzullo.com\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2018-06-01T21:38:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T19:38:11","slug":"teaching-our-child-to-be-bilingual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/teaching-our-child-to-be-bilingual\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching our child to be bilingual"},"content":{"rendered":"
My little principessa<\/em> turned one year-old recently, and this is a great time for being a parent. She\u2019s discovering the world, learning to walk, and saying her first words.\u00a0 It would not be an understatement to say that hearing her call me, \u201cDa-da\u201d for the first time was the best moment of my life so far.\u00a0 However, it comes with a little anxiety, too.\u00a0 She\u2019s learning English and Italian at the same time, and I can\u2019t help but feel a little guilty about intentionally causing all this confusion in her developing brain.\u00a0 I tell her \u201cshoe,\u201d and Jessica tells her, \u201cscarpa.\u201d\u00a0 Poor thing.<\/p>\n My wife and I have both been language teachers, so you\u2019d think that teaching our child to be bilingual would be an easy task.\u00a0 The obvious fact is, it\u2019s not the same thing teaching a language to an infant as it is to an adult.\u00a0 In some ways, it\u2019s easier\u2026at least for our \u201cstudent,\u201d who has no blocks and no preconceived notions of grammar rules or pronunciation.\u00a0 For the teachers, however, how do you \u201cexplain\u201d something to a little person who has none of your linguistic reference points?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n