[neen]

I have a two year old adopted from Korea and I am bringing him up bilingual. It is hard as I have been learning Korean all the way along - its not a native tongue for me. I try and speak - mother child banter in Korean and have other native speakers around him - hes doing amazingly well. As I said it is hard to study and mother - but I feel with foreign languages you so need to use it and I am really just keeping the linguistic wheel turning by keeping his Korean there. He arrived at 5 months and some of his first korean words were from that 0-5 month period - not from me - so that really showed me that it was truly his native language and that I must let him keep it. I read his stories in Korean ( thankfully its repetitive! )and then I carefully plan how I immerse him in his language otherwise.

i would love to hear of other examples...or ideas - from sydney australia.