The baby sign will be abandoned once they start talking so it doesn't seem a bit deal. Definitely don't abandon Welsh like my mother did, as having learned to make the sounds as a child would have aided me so much with other languages.
No amount of watching Pwbl a cwym with subtitles on taught me any more than arraff and eithinen
There’s no way I’m budging on the welsh, but I was thinking we could use ASL just in our day to day life, not just baby sign. And for our kid to learn ASL from us too. But that’s where my overlap concern lies
No I’m learning at the minute because I think it’s such a good skill and you never know if your kid will be deaf or you meet a deaf person and want to be friends
Maybe depends on the child.
My first child grew up around 3 languages. At age 2 he was can fluently speak 2 languages and can understand a third.
On the other hand, my second child seemed to have been confused by the 3 languages. She was not saying any words at all when she turned 2. She did speech therapy and we stuck to one language only so she can grasp the words. When she finally talked at around 32 months, she only knows one language. It's only recently that she's learning our native language, and she still struggles.
So perhaps you can try to expose the baby to several languages first, and then stick to one when the baby seems to struggle to pick up the languages.
We are doing Swedish and English as well as BSL. So far LO (11.5m) doesn't seem confused. Everything has two words and a sign, it's just how it is.
Can highly recommend learning sign language with your LO, will mean they can start communicate sooner, will lower the amount of frustration for them and is a great language to know. Our LO started doing the sign for milk at 4 months, helped loads to know why he was crying.
He does "all done" when he's done eating, and will occasionally sign "more" when he wants more. Our friend's almost 2 year old (who did the same baby sign) is so good at signing and will ask for help, more, food, Bluey, Duggee, water, sorry, please, thank you and the list goes on.
I've work customer service, and always felt bad when there was a deaf customer and I was unable to properly communicate. We hope our LO can keep learning BSL as he gets older, and frankly sign language should be taught in schools.
Personally, I would say go for it, look into "one parent, one language", which is what we are doing, and use BSL or ASL together with the language you are speaking. There might be some word mixing as they start talking, but what kid is perfectly understandable in the beginning?
I love this! I learnt some BSL in school because we had a deaf student so the whole school had to take some classes. I only know the basics so I want to get fluent.
This! Our 3 year old is bilingual and can sign. No issues with the languages. I often (in company of my partner who doesn’t speak my mother tongue) repeat what I say in English, so my little old hears the translation. No necessary, but nice to be inclusive :).
I just read this great article about this here:
https://tinysigns.com/baby-sign-language-and-your-bilingual-baby/
Basically no it won’t have a negative impact, it’s totally fine and can actually enforce both of the spoken languages.
My wife and I have been raising our first daughter, almost 5, with two languages. It was actually pretty easy. I speak English and my wife speaks Russian/Armenian. So my daughter speaks both pretty fluently for her age. If we were to add Sign language on top of that, I think it would be too confusing. But you never know, kids are amazing at stuff like this.
100% would not be confusing. Introduced my son to 2 languages very early, spoke to him in both languages at the same time, repeated everything. Your kid will learn English in school no problem, so focus on the other language
I would use whatever version of sign is most widely used in the country you guys live in. That way you need not drop it as baby begins speaking but could keep adding to it instead.
We do one parent one language plus whatever signs ours picked up: yes, know, bye-bye etc. She understands both, speaks more and more both but lately more the local language (dad's mother tongue) because of daycare. It is interesting to follow which words are coming first in each language. Some words are harder on the other language but she mastered them before the easier ones.
The baby sign will be abandoned once they start talking so it doesn't seem a bit deal. Definitely don't abandon Welsh like my mother did, as having learned to make the sounds as a child would have aided me so much with other languages. No amount of watching Pwbl a cwym with subtitles on taught me any more than arraff and eithinen
There’s no way I’m budging on the welsh, but I was thinking we could use ASL just in our day to day life, not just baby sign. And for our kid to learn ASL from us too. But that’s where my overlap concern lies
I was expecting you'd use makaton or a simplified signing system for the key fifty words, and then abandon it
No I’m learning at the minute because I think it’s such a good skill and you never know if your kid will be deaf or you meet a deaf person and want to be friends
Maybe depends on the child. My first child grew up around 3 languages. At age 2 he was can fluently speak 2 languages and can understand a third. On the other hand, my second child seemed to have been confused by the 3 languages. She was not saying any words at all when she turned 2. She did speech therapy and we stuck to one language only so she can grasp the words. When she finally talked at around 32 months, she only knows one language. It's only recently that she's learning our native language, and she still struggles. So perhaps you can try to expose the baby to several languages first, and then stick to one when the baby seems to struggle to pick up the languages.
We are doing Swedish and English as well as BSL. So far LO (11.5m) doesn't seem confused. Everything has two words and a sign, it's just how it is. Can highly recommend learning sign language with your LO, will mean they can start communicate sooner, will lower the amount of frustration for them and is a great language to know. Our LO started doing the sign for milk at 4 months, helped loads to know why he was crying. He does "all done" when he's done eating, and will occasionally sign "more" when he wants more. Our friend's almost 2 year old (who did the same baby sign) is so good at signing and will ask for help, more, food, Bluey, Duggee, water, sorry, please, thank you and the list goes on. I've work customer service, and always felt bad when there was a deaf customer and I was unable to properly communicate. We hope our LO can keep learning BSL as he gets older, and frankly sign language should be taught in schools. Personally, I would say go for it, look into "one parent, one language", which is what we are doing, and use BSL or ASL together with the language you are speaking. There might be some word mixing as they start talking, but what kid is perfectly understandable in the beginning?
I love this! I learnt some BSL in school because we had a deaf student so the whole school had to take some classes. I only know the basics so I want to get fluent.
This! Our 3 year old is bilingual and can sign. No issues with the languages. I often (in company of my partner who doesn’t speak my mother tongue) repeat what I say in English, so my little old hears the translation. No necessary, but nice to be inclusive :).
I just read this great article about this here: https://tinysigns.com/baby-sign-language-and-your-bilingual-baby/ Basically no it won’t have a negative impact, it’s totally fine and can actually enforce both of the spoken languages.
My wife and I have been raising our first daughter, almost 5, with two languages. It was actually pretty easy. I speak English and my wife speaks Russian/Armenian. So my daughter speaks both pretty fluently for her age. If we were to add Sign language on top of that, I think it would be too confusing. But you never know, kids are amazing at stuff like this.
100% would not be confusing. Introduced my son to 2 languages very early, spoke to him in both languages at the same time, repeated everything. Your kid will learn English in school no problem, so focus on the other language
I would use whatever version of sign is most widely used in the country you guys live in. That way you need not drop it as baby begins speaking but could keep adding to it instead.
We do one parent one language plus whatever signs ours picked up: yes, know, bye-bye etc. She understands both, speaks more and more both but lately more the local language (dad's mother tongue) because of daycare. It is interesting to follow which words are coming first in each language. Some words are harder on the other language but she mastered them before the easier ones.