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What to do if your partner wants to speak to your baby in a language you don’t understand

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par Una Cunningham, Professor emerita, Department of Teaching and Learning, Stockholm University

Finding out you and your partner are expecting a baby throws many discussions that might have once been hypothetical into stark relief. This certainly may be the case if your partner speaks another language beyond the one spoken where you live and that the two of you communicate in.

“I’d like to bring the baby up to speak my language”, they say, and suddenly what seemed a wonderful idea – a bilingual child – might throw up panicked visions of being left out of private jokes and conversations…

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