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Old Jul 23, 2008, 01:36 PM
Griffe
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I thought I posed this but I guess I never did, so gonna post it now. Goes to show my silly memory.

Both my girlfriend and I speak French and English as our main languages. Generally at home we speak mostly English as we live in a mainly English-speaking city, but sometimes for chatter we speak in French.

We're going to be moving to a province that is a majority of French speakers, although the area we'd be moving to would be pretty Anglo (English-speaking). I've talked to a few really good friend with job connections, and I'd probably be working for a French company.

We want the kids so grow up bilingual (with French/English), but they are very young right now, so would it be best only speaking one language while around them? I grew up learning French in an English-speaking country while exposed to plenty of English, and I managed to pick up both languages, and my girlfriend was different from me- she grew up learning English in an English-speaking country, and later learned French from scratch.

I don't want to confuse our kids so I'm not sure if speaking both languages around them is good or bad, or if it is important while they're this young.

On a side note... little Torin and Evan are so cuuuuute!