Hi
I'd like to buy the Rightstart A book with or without the kit. Also the first 2 Mathtacular DVDs, and Giggle math. Does anybody want to sell any of these to me, please? I live in London, UK and my son is 3 years and 3 months, we have been doing the Readingeggs math program (Mathseeds) and he is doing well. I would now like to try with the above programs asap.
Many thanks.
Kind regards!
Liesel from the UK

I should add we now live in the UK

I'm by all means not an expert and I'm speaking mainly from my own experience. I would just think it's so sad if my child didn't speak my mother tongue, specially as it's such a useful language.
The way I see it, the language spoken where they go to school and live takes over at some point. I've seen it so many times, even kids who initially spoke their mother tongue, end up much better in the country's new language, because of friends and school.
I moved to Sweden with my family when I was ten years old. It took me only 2-3 months to start speaking Swedish, and I did very well at Swedish school, entering IB and later Medicine school at 18, which is very competitive in Sweden. Everybody thinks I was born in Sweden because of my Swedish skills. My brother was born in Sweden and much rather speaks Swedish than Spanish.

My point is, to achieve a good level in all languages, I think it's easier to solidify the country's language reading appropriate books and such with the kid at home every day, speaking the mother tongue otherwise, resulting in a very good level of both languages, than neglecting the mother tongue and ending up not speaking it properly. As the language where they live will take over anyway sooner or later. But that's just how I feel.
Kids are so clever, I am very confident my boys English (which at the moment is as good as any other 3 year old but not as good as his Spanish or Persian) will progress to the right level as soon as he starts school (with help from home) and I'm hoping he will continue to speak Spanish and Persian as well as now.
Time will tell. We all do the best we can.

Hi!
Nice to say hej och välkommen to a fellow swede!
I remember having these worries and questions. I speak Spanish with my boys (just turned 3 and just turned 1), my husband speaks Persian to them (our native languages) and we speak Swedish with each other (we speak Swedish as good as our mother tongue, since we both grew up in Sweden, Umeå!)
My 3 year old started Nursery 3 times a week when I went back to work part time when he turned 1, so he learned English there.
He did say many words in mainly Spanish and Persian from around 18 months old but started speaking properly at around 2 years and 3 months, in long sentences and in 3 languages, all of the sudden. By then, he did not mix the languages. We were so amazed by how he would tell something in Spanish to me and then he would turn and tell the exact same thing in Persian to his dad. Or in English to an English friend. We are still in awe about how well he speaks all the languages and how
he doesn't mix. I thought he would be confused by the Swedish he hears between us, but he is just fine. He might even understand Swedish as he sometimes says 'no mommy I don't want to sleep' to me in Spanish if I tell hubby in Swedish that it's time for them to sleep

Nobody speaks Swedish to him yet, but we plan on teaching him Swedish soon.
 Consistency has been the key. Although I do read him English books as well as Spanish, and teach math etc in English as we live in London, I otherwise only speak Spanish to him and his dad only speaks Persian to him. 
I started with LR when he was 16 months, there was no Spanish curriculum then but I did download the extra stuff and showed it to him, although not as consistent as the English LR. I am showing now both English and Spanish to his little brother, just at different times of
 the day. He has not started nursery yet so he has not been exposed to English much but I do want him to learn to read in both English and Spanish so I continue with both, as recommended by so many other with more experience.
I was not as consistent as I wish I had been with DS1, and since I mainly taught him in English which was not his strongest language back then, I wonder if that caused him to not start reading as early as he could have. He was around 22 months when he started reading out sight words and he chooses the right words on the "games" section always but is still refusing to read to me. I think he can more than he wants to show, but we will see in time. I'm hoping little brother might start earlier as I'm showing the Spanish curriculum too which is more familiar to him. And I'm reminding myself that it's not the results, it's the input that matters.
Hope this helps.

Hi Geniusexperiment
Thanks for the info about the educational system, we have lived in the UK for 5 years but it's difficult to grasp how schools will deal with an advanced child (not that my DS1 is extremely advanced but he does read a bit now and knows all his letters, letter sounds, numbers, shapes etc and hopefully by the time he starts school he will be more advanced, if he still enjoys EL that is
Here in Kent there are very good schools, although I would love for him to attend a private, we will see by then. We still have Grammar schools over here and I would love for my boys to attend St Olavs grammar school in Orpington, they have a very high percentage of graduates going on to Oxbridge and other top unis, all for free if they qualify through the 11+ test.
I know central London has fantastic schools, but I didn't know they were routinely 1-3 years ahead of their peers! Good to know. We might have to consider private 
I am also happy to live her when I realise there are so many good schools for other things, such as music or Soroban (I found a Soroban school in Lewisham that I want them to start, their earliest age is 4 they say )

Would be truly lovely to meet with all you wonderful London mommas one day and exchange experiences. Congratulations on your great blog, I've subscribed now. We seem to have a very similar approach to EL, do as much as we can in a semi- chaotic day with 2 little ones 

Hello
We also live in London, in Bromley right outside of London, and would be nice to hear from or meet other likeminded UK based/Londoners.
My oldest DS is 2 years 5 months and starting to show me he can read some words, although he doesn't like to show me most of the time. Still, I focus on imput, but because of lack of time when I was back at work and now with a newborn, we are still only on day 93 of LR after a year (I started when he was 1 yr 4 months) But he is a fluent speaker in Spanish (can't wait for the LR Spanish!) and Persian and English. And we are slowly making progress in maths.
I plan to start my second DS at 4 months on LR and LM.
I am interested to know how other families with EL kids are doing in the UK school system, as I also do not plan to homeschool since we both work/have successful careers and also we want the social aspect of school. But it worries me that school might bore my very active DS1 and put him off learning. I definitely plan to afterschool teach him myself but what do they do all day at school if they are very advanced?
If anybody is interested in meeting to exchange ideas or just chat to likeminded, let me know.

Regards and thanks to all for the wonderful resources shared in this forum

By the way, Reading eggs and Mathseeds are now accessible through the iPad, my son loves both, we are on a free trial, thinking of subscribing. Any experiences?

Hi. I'd like to buy the full set of Tweedlewink DVDs and Tweedlewink math and also YBCR spanish
Please PM me. Many thanks
Liesel

Thank you for your answer Mela Bala. I have seen the Spanish files and downloaded them, but was hoping to find the whole translated curriculum, as it keeps track of how many times the word has been shown etc.
Will keep looking otherwise translate it myself, although being a working mum, time is a scarce resource these days...
Warm regards,
Liesel

Hello everybody
I am new to this forum and I have only just started to teach my 16 month old son to read with LR (lesson 2) . I wanted to teach him in Spanish first as it's my mother tongue and I speak only Spanish to him, but I have to translate the curriculum first, unless somebody already has done that and want to help me out? Please?
My husband speaks Persian to him and my baby goes to nursery 3 half days a week, so he is exposed to some English. Me and my husband speak Swedish with each other, but nobody speaks Swedish to my ds. I hope we are not confusing the little man!
I also wanted to teach him the English curriculum, and math, but I'm not sure how I will mange to squeeze all that into a day?

Looking forward to learning from all of you experienced parents out there.
Kind regards,
Liesel 

Thank you Mandabplus3 for the tips, really appreciate it 
Yes I thought abut teaching him to read only in English, my fear is that he will then go on to read only in English and not speak Spanish as much, as I know quite a few kids from bilingual parents that understand the other language but choose to answer in English...My own brother was born in Sweden and speaks Spanish very well but prefers to speak in Swedish unless we really insist on Spanish, as he expresses himself much better in Swedish. It's hard to give them a good level of proficiency in the "second" language (the language no spoken at school)
I have seen the Spanish files and downloaded them, but as part of the beauty of LR is the ease of having a curriculum that keeps track of how many times you show the word etc, I was hoping somebody would have done all that job already, but if not, I will start to translate the currriculum. Yikes!
Many thanks again 
Liesel

Hello everybody
I am new to this forum and I have only just started to teach my 16 month old son to read with LR (lesson 2) . I wanted to teach him in Spanish first as it's my mother tongue and I speak only Spanish to him, but I have to translate the curriculum first, unless somebody already has done that and want to help me out? My husband speaks Persian to him and my baby goes to nursery 3 half days a week, so he is exposed to some English. Me and my husband speak Swedish with each other, but nobody speaks Swedish to my ds. I hope we are not confusing the little man!
I also wanted to teach him the English curriculum, and math, but I'm not sure how I will mange to squeeze all that into a day?

Looking forward to learning from all of you experienced parents out there.
Kind regards,
Liesel