Kaixo/Hola from Belgium, trilingual child
Jan 19, 2019 11:43:54 GMT 9
Post by Marisa on Jan 19, 2019 11:43:54 GMT 9
Kaixo (hello!) eta ongi etorri (welcome!), Jone!
For the last 14 years, I've spent the month of July in Bilbao...and that's how far my Basque goes!
Not sure if you're already aware of this, but just in case, you can check out the following link:
www.eitb.eus/eu/hiru3/
There seems to be a lot of videos/shows for children in Basque there. What I do with my daughter is to find the online videos/shows that I can get hold of in Spanish, German, and French, and then I use my Chromecast to 'cast' them to my regular TV. It's been very helpful, and she loves to see her favorite shows on the big TV. I highly recommend it.
I also buy more books in the minority languages than I probably should. You can find some books in euskera at Amazon.es, and they have international shipping. I normally wait until I go to Spain to buy books there and bring them with me, but every now and then I order them from the Spanish Amazon, and they ship them to the US. My guess is that they can ship them to the Netherlands as well. Not the cheapest option, but it's there.
And last but not least, in case it helps, you can check out these other links too:
eranafarroa.eus/es/canta-y-disfruta-en-euskera/
maestra.mforos.com/1360555/6438767-recursos-en-euskera/?pag=3
elpatiodegemma.blogspot.com/search/label/Euskera
Good luck with all your trilingual efforts!
Marisa
For the last 14 years, I've spent the month of July in Bilbao...and that's how far my Basque goes!
I'm also trying to raise my daughter multilingual, and since I'm the only parent that she has, it's definitely something challenging...but like all of us in the forum, I'm trying my very best! I'm originally from Spain and currently living in the US, where my daughter was born. I've never spoken to her in English, and since I took some years of German back in the day, I figured that I might try to teach my daughter some German too. I'm also trying to expose her to French, which has led some people to think that I might be slightly crazier than they originally thought.
In any case, my daughter only talks to me in Spanish, and the fact that she spends a significant amount of hours at daycare, where she's only exposed to English, doesn't seem to be an issue when it comes to communicating in Spanish with me. I'm sure she's noticed I can speak English, since she hears me using it with her teachers and other people, but as soon as she realizes I'm around, it's all Spanish, to the point that I was wondering whether she was learning/using any English at all (according to her daycare teacher, she is, and for sure, her knowledge/usage of English will grow throughout the years, hopefully without undermining her Spanish!). Actually, she seems to be using more German than English, go figure!, especially when the German input I can provide is limited, but thanks to Adam's book, I know that perseverance finally pays off, so I religiously read to her in German and Spanish every day, and I 'make her do her homework' by listening to songs/watching cartoons in her minority languages daily (we'll get to the writing/reading in the upcoming years). English is part of her life, and there's no way she can avoid learning/using it, so even when her current command of English is below her peers in terms of using it (I think), I know it's temporary, and she'll catch up. Raising a kid bi/tri/multilingual is very challenging, sometimes confusing, and you keep wondering if you're doing the right thing, but like Raquel mentioned in her comment, I'm 100% sure this is the right way to go, and I wouldn't change a thing.
Not sure if you're already aware of this, but just in case, you can check out the following link:
www.eitb.eus/eu/hiru3/
There seems to be a lot of videos/shows for children in Basque there. What I do with my daughter is to find the online videos/shows that I can get hold of in Spanish, German, and French, and then I use my Chromecast to 'cast' them to my regular TV. It's been very helpful, and she loves to see her favorite shows on the big TV. I highly recommend it.
I also buy more books in the minority languages than I probably should. You can find some books in euskera at Amazon.es, and they have international shipping. I normally wait until I go to Spain to buy books there and bring them with me, but every now and then I order them from the Spanish Amazon, and they ship them to the US. My guess is that they can ship them to the Netherlands as well. Not the cheapest option, but it's there.
And last but not least, in case it helps, you can check out these other links too:
eranafarroa.eus/es/canta-y-disfruta-en-euskera/
maestra.mforos.com/1360555/6438767-recursos-en-euskera/?pag=3
elpatiodegemma.blogspot.com/search/label/Euskera
Good luck with all your trilingual efforts!
Marisa