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Parent struggling to teach child two heritage languages

🌱 parentingsocial problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 2/5

A parent living in the US with a 21-month-old daughter is concerned about their ability to teach their child both Russian and German, as their own Russian is rusty and they lack access to Russian-language media.

Who's affected: A parent raising a 21-month-old daughter in the US.

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What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A subscription service providing curated, age-appropriate children's media and books in specific heritage language pairings.
  2. A platform connecting multilingual parents for local playdate coordination based on specific language goals.
  3. A mobile app offering daily conversational scripts and vocabulary lessons for parents to use with toddlers in their heritage languages.
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Real voices

β€œI don’t think that I’d be able to give her life lessons in that language. Sometimes I have to google a word.”

Source: Stack Exchange (parenting) Β· CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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