would you teach your baby two languages at the same time?

What a beautiful baby, It would be better to teach her your native language first so that she isn't to confused when trying to communicate with you and your wife, but yes teach her other languages. I have heard that the more languages a child learns the better that they do in school. Also you might look into teaching her sign language to help her talk to you and your wife before she can talk it cuts down on the frustration when you don't understand her.

I am a teacher, in my opinion that you can't teach your baby two languages in the same time when she is too young. At that time, your baby will confuse how to speak, and will don't know which is right. In the future your baby will have problem to study language.

Start now. Kids are very versitile in their early years. My three year old nephew speaks three languages with equal ease. I know four languages and learnt all of them simultaneously.

Your baby daughter looks adorable. She is so lucky to live in a family that knows Spanish, English and a little French. I suggest you concentrate on teaching her Spanish and English. One of you could talk in Spanish and the other of you in English. Young children have a really good ability at learning language. My friend has a German mum and an English dad. She speaks German fluently due to being exposed to it very young. Your daughter is very lucky that you and your wife are keen to help her learn languages. She will get a head start and be really clever at school with the foreign languages when she is older. Good luck.

I think its great that you want to teach your daughter 2 languages...and the younger you start with her the better it'll be & the faster she will pick it up...the 3 year old girl down the street can speak both Spanish & English & go from one right to the other just like that...she speaks better English then her parents! LOL!

I think it would be great to teach your daughter both languages. I only speak english, but my bf speak veinamese and english. I always say that if we would to have a baby that the baby would most definitly have to spend time with his family to catch on to the language. I think it will create more opportunites for a child to know 2 languages fluently.

the earlier you'll start teaching languages the better, it develops the brain... just speak both languages with the baby, she will learn. the only problem that you might run into is that she might start talking later because she has to learn both at the same time

You should definitely communicate to your child in all the languages that you speak. Children learn language so easily when they are young; their brains are programmed to learn language. Jewish children grow up learning their native language and Hebrew, and as a result many Jews are very fluent in languages. I, unfortunately, did not become Jewish until in my mid-forties and it is much more difficult for me to learn Hebrew now, although I love languages and would like to learn more. It's always best to go with nature, and up until around the age of 2 children are in their prime for learning language. At least that is what I remember from my linguistics class in college. LOL. It is such a shame when parents who speak more than one language only speak English, or whatever basic language they want their child to know. Some immigrants in the US were ashamed to speak to their children in their native language for fear their children wouldn't assimilate into their new surroundings well enough. Children are well able to learn more than one language, and not get them confused. So, go ahead and speak to your child in the languages that you know. She will learn those languages by hearing you speak them to her.

I have taught all of my kids(4) 2 languages from infancy(English and ASL)and the last 2 kids 3 languages (English, ASL and Hebrew) from 6 months on. I dont see it creating confusion at all. Teaching multiple languages early helps stimulate brain pathways that after 5 dont build as easily. The brain in its early stages is AMAZING! With ASL we did it along with the other language we are using. My husband speaks the hebrew and I speak english both with ASL. The beauty of adding ASL, my youngest 2 were signing by 9 months (milk & all done) and had over 30 signs by a year old. This didnt delay their speech at all, in fact they are both very ahead in that area. It does require creating a habit on the parents part (our pathways grow slower now:) ) but its worth the effort.