15 challenges of raising a multilingual child – which one do you relate to the most?
1. Language mixing and code-switching
2. Maintaining minority languages
3. Setting realistic goals for each language
4. Choosing the right language strategy for your family
5. People questioning your choice to raise a multilingual child
6. Figuring out how much language input is “enough”
7. Maintaining consistency without feeling stressed or overwhelmed
8. Limited resources and support for minority languages
9. Language loss due to majority language influence / dominance
10. Lack of community support
11. Parental proficiency in the non-dominant language
12. Navigating school systems in a different language
13. Sibling language differences
14. Consistency when the minority language is not reinforced anywhere
15. Pressure on children to achieve proficiency in multiple languages
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