I teach my child English: How to make your child speak English? / English for kids

Kids are very good at differentiating between languages. My three-year-old tot has his mother speaking English to him, father – Russian, and he goes to a daycare where they speak Ukrainian. He’s doing just fine. But as for answering me in English - that’s the real problem because the exposure is not enough. 

I wanted to speak English exclusively to my son, but I was afraid of isolating my husband because he doesn’t always understand me. So I’m trying to get into a schedule of speaking English during the day while my husband is at work several days a week and then changing back to Russian when he comes home.

I was a little upset that we couldn’t learn the language according to the OPOL method (one parent one language). So I really liked the idea I came across that the key is not...

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