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By: When you end up talking another language with your child… – Ute's International Lounge

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:26:09 +0000

[…] then my twin daughters started to communicate in an autonomous language that had nothing in common – neither phonetically, nor morphologically – with the languages […]

By: Language preference among bilingual siblings – Ute's International Lounge

Language preference among bilingual siblings – Ute's International Lounge — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 21:14:28 +0000

[…] I persisted talking Italian to him until my daughters were 15 months old. We then narrowed down the languages within our family from three to one because our girls developed a secret language. […]

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One year expatsincebirth « expatsincebirth — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:03:08 +0000

[…] I had to choose which language to speak to them in our multilingual family. With the “secret language among (my) twins” I introduced the complex linguistic situation within our family. After pointing our the […]

By: When you end up talking another language with your kids… « expatsincebirth

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:44:44 +0000

[…] when my daughters were 11-15 months old. But then my twindaughters started to communicate in an autonomous language that had nothing in common (neither phonetically, nor morphologically) with the languages they were […]

By: Which language to choose? « expatsincebirth

Which language to choose? « expatsincebirth — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:41:48 +0000

[…] year old, they developed a secret language when playing together. This is not unusual among twins (see my upcoming post about the secret language among twins). My daughters were attending dutch daycare for 2-3 days per week at that time and my son started […]