Bilingual Update video!

In this video I show conversations in English with our son Yul. Since we live in Korea, he is of course surrounded by Korean. He hears it at daycare, he hears it in the community and Hugh speaks Korean to him. His English comes almost entirely from me and hearing Hugh and I speaking to each other in English. In the future he’ll have more English exposure as we can interact more with my family and other English speakers, but he has done really well learning English naturally from me.

I hope these videos are encouraging for other families in similar situations. I know people can worry a lot about the bilingual aspect. I also hope they help Korean families where parents do speak English and they want to introduce English to their children, but find it hard to know how to speak to children in English. There can be quite a difference between knowing how to speak a language to other adults and how to help a child learn a language. Hopefully seeing these types of examples are helpful.