Home About Twf What is Twf? Field Officers Contact Us Our Partners Advice for parents and the family Advice To Parents The Advantages In the Home At School Advice for health and childcare professionals What is Bilingualism? How to be bilingual? Further information Useful Contacts Publications Publication Any questions? Is speaking Welsh counted as a ‘skill' in employment? Why does Bilingualism take up so much time? Why does Bilingualism take up so much time? Can bilingualism alienate people who are unable to speak the minority language? Isn't using Welsh basically about expressing nationalism? Is speaking Welsh counted as a 'skill' in employment? When watching television should my child be encouraged to listen to one language or both languages? Will experience of majority language mass media affect the development of bilingualism in my child? Is the one parent more important than another in the child's language development? What happens if parents don't agree that their children should become bilingual? What happens if grandparents and the extended family disapprove of bilingualism? I'm a one-parent family. How can I raise my child bilingually? Neither of us speaks a second language. How can we help our child become bilingual? Can I learn a second language alongside my child? My child gets little practice in speaking a language outside the family. What should I do? My children can speak two languages. How can I help them belong to two cultures? How important is it that the child's two languages are practiced and supported outside the home? What should our language strategy be with an adopted child? What are the most important factors in raising a bilingual child? Should my child keep the two languages separate in different situations and with different people? Should my child use two languages with the same person? Will learning a second language interfere with development in the first language? I want my child to be successful. Should I concentrate on developing first-majority language skills? Does switching between languages have any value or purpose? How can a nursery school support children's bilingualism? Should my child go to a bilingual school? What effect will bilingualism have on my child's intelligence? Will my child learn two languages only half as well as a monolingual child? Are monolinguals more common than people who speak more than one language in the world? What's On Message Board Your Experience Site Map External Links Carmarthenshire County Council BBC Welsh at Home Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg Menter a Busnes TWF Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin (Welsh Medium Pre-School Provision) Welsh Assembly Government Learning Welsh Website Mantais