5 Tips To Keep Your Mother Tongue Afloat With Kids In Sweden

Maintaining your mother tongue on a high level in your kids might be tough after moving abroad - kids pick up a language of the society very quickly and soon may be relentlessly speaking in it only.

Discover our top 5 tips to keep mother tongue afloat with kids after moving to Sweden:

1. Speak in your language with your kids- don’t switch to the language of the country even if that feels easier to your children. Remember, that through your language you transfer your own culture to them, it is part of your identity.

2. Create a language environment outside of family: find people with kids who speak the same language or even a kids club in your mother tongue.

3. For preschool children: talk to the personnel in your kindergarten about maintaining your mother tongue - if possible, maybe they can turn on some audiobooks for your child in your native language.

4. For school kids: in Sweden, kids with a mother tongue other than Swedish are offered weekly classes at school in their mother tongue (may vary on teachers' availability).

5. Look for a school with your mother tongue in focus - in Stockholm, you can find, among others, German, French, English, Russian and Spanish schools.

6. Read books in your mother tongue - it was proven that reading to children expands their vocabulary and boosts imagination. Stockholm City Library has a whole section with kids' books in different languages!

What would you add to this list?