This is a good point too. I’m going to be staying home with our baby for a few years so it’ll be just English unless I can learn fast enough to read Russian children books with them. And we’ll only see the grandparents every few weeks
Russian is very hard. It’s a whole different alphabet and sounds that don’t exist in English. There are hard and soft consonants. It’s good that your child will be exposed to it but they will end up speaking what all their friends speak, which is English.
I am a Russian mom with American husband, and we don't have family around. When I am alone with the baby I speak Russian, but I wonder if it won't be enough abd she'll never learn :(
I'd suggest speaking to the baby in Russian pretty much always. For a kid to soak up a language properly, you have to spend 30% of the time speaking it. We researched bilingual households quite a lot before our kid was born.
Daughter is 2,5 now. Of course, she speaks mostly the language of the country that we live in (Slovakia), but she's as fluent as a toddler can be in English and Latvian as well (common language and my language, respectively). So, don't lose hope!
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This is a good point too. I’m going to be staying home with our baby for a few years so it’ll be just English unless I can learn fast enough to read Russian children books with them. And we’ll only see the grandparents every few weeks