A great and welcomed introduction to Atlantic global and their Time software…

Thanks for writing about it

My apologies for writing only now. Junior still keeps me busy these days, that’s why.

He’s now almost 1 year, and we mostly speak English to him. Only sometimes we talk in our native tongues to him, especially while visiting his grandparents — just to expose him to our mother tongues.

So far he doesn’t seem to have difficulty. But I guess it’s too early to tell. All I can say is that he starts to understand what is being said to him — doesn’t matter whether it’s in English, Hungarian or Indonesian.

He’s learned, for example, to clap his hands in Hungarian, while saying “mamam” — Indonesian word for “eating” — whenever he’s hungry.

I personally think there’s nothing wrong in mixing all languages at once, because kids are better learners.

What I’ve often heard as the side effect of this is that the child will start to speak later than his peer, because he’s learning more things at once. But isn’t it normal?

I think this is what’s happening to some of you guys. But I’m no expert, so if you’re worried about your children, you should maybe talk to the pediatrician about it.

Now, about the multilingual thingy — I don’t actually have much to say at this moment, since my son is only 11 months. Right now we speak mostly English to him, but whenever we visit our parents then we try to speak more in our native tongues, so that he’ll be exposed to the languages as well.

So far he doesn’t seem to have a problem. His Hungarian granny, for example, could teach him to clap his hand in Hungarian after a few days. He also knows what to say in Indonesian when he’s hungry.

So basically I don’t see any problems in mixing all languages at once.

However, I’ve heard from many friends that this method might cost more time for the child to learn. Thus, multilingual baby may start to speak later than his peer. I think this is what’s happening to some of you guys.