
Guest Post: If At First You Don’t Succeed, You May Be the Minority Language Parent
Any child of mine will be bilingual in the womb. How could they not? If I can become fluent in four languages, surely they can master just two by the time they’re born. All right, maybe I was being overly ambitious. I understand that children don’t come out speaking, but surely we’ll be chatting in Russian about the merits of Dostoyevsky by the time they turn five. Alas, my modest expectations were not being met as I faced my daughter,