How to raise a trilingual kid? Hello everybody! My dream is to raise a multilingual baby (maybe because I am monolingual myself but I have a great passion for new languages), so when I found out that I am pregnant I immediately started thinking of how to make my dream come true. I have a great opportunity to raise bilingual baby at least because I am Ukrainian myself and my husband is Chinese, and we also live in China(I am planning to teach the kid Russian and my husband will talk to the kid in Chinese since he doesn't speak any other language :D). The next step is to insert English into my plan. I am not native English speaker and despite I can simply communicate with English speakers I still don't think my level allows me to teach English as native language. There are a lot of reasons like: accent, the way of expressing my thoughts is different from English speakers’, not forget to mention grammar mistakes. And even if I decided to teach the kid 2 languages, here is the next problem: how is he supposed to distinguish them? The only idea which came to my mind is teaching the baby through cartoons or short videos made by native speakers. Theoretecally, the kid might digest all the neccessary information and even accent if it's watched over and over. This would cut the chance of teaching the kid my own mistakes. But it is just a theory, if anybody tried to raise a kid in such an "artificial" environment, please, tell me if it succeeded. Or maybe you could share any other idea or experience? Thank you in advance!

How to master your 3d language asap? D:

Hello guys! I know this question is kind of banal but it's still an urgent problem of majority language learners... My problem is that I can't concentrate on something definite, I am so busy seeking for "perfect" way to master my 3d language at the shortest period, that sometimes I merely forget to study the language itself. Every time I start reading an article or a book, student book or just watching movie in Chinese, I ask myself "Is this useful? Am I not wasting time? maybe I should do some listening exercises. What if I just waste my time?" And it repeats itself over and over every day lol I can't even set a goal because I am always side-tracked by this idee fixe of finding "a perfect way to learn language"... Does anybody have similar difficulties? Or maybe you've already found your "perfect method"?:D

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汉语语法的问题 我最近开始学习 动词+得/不 的语法，但是中国朋友说这个语法不太常用的。还有例子在书上不通顺。。。 请告诉我你们中国人用这样的句话吗？ 这些句子写得对不对？ “你看得见看不见那个小木屋？” “下午五点钟你回得来回不来？” 谢谢你们^^

Translated Chinese composition into English. Does it look awkward? ^^ On Friday my mother bought two small chicks by the school gates. They are yellow from head to foot and also are very cute. That’s why I called them: Cutie and Yellow Egg. They look like two fluffy balls, very cute. They have two black like black beads eyes. Their beaks are pink and sharp. There are four toes on their feet. When they are hungry they say: “Cheep! Cheep! We are hungry, faster give us some food!” Once I decided to colour my chicks. On the body of Yellow Egg I painted very big white egg, it was so cute. For Cutie I prepared a princess dress and a princess crown. Then I put it on Cutie. When they saw each other they were very surprised. They didn’t recognize each other. They two are very playful and very cute. I hope they will grow up very fast!

Please, help me to make it sound more native. Thank you^^ Sometimes we all need some privacy, some time to stay one-on-one with ourselves. The reasons can be different, beginning with trivial daily routine and ending with serious harmful to our soul occurrences. And being an introversive creature I must admit that my need in escaping from reality is extremely high. I am easily embarrassed with active fussy village life, so after spending a whole day in the core of such boiling pot, I definitely need to lock myself in my room and let myself being not disturbed at least for an hour. Despite I love my family but they are included in the list of things I would love to escape at times. Especially when it comes to limitless care of my mother, that in some cases really goes too far. Usually, although I know it’s not good of me, I try to concentrate on something else, but my mother, for example, playing online game. Also I consider the art is very helpful for those who try to escape from routine and negative reality.

How to overcome gap between Intermediate and Advanced levels? I need a piece of advice concerning improving my English level, but firstly I will recount my "sad story" of its learning. Most my knowledge I gained through communication with native speakers in online games but on certain reason I cant keep on playing anymore. And I can assert freely that from book I got nothing! Despite how hard I tried to memorise it, very soon everything I had learned earlier was erased from memory. Now I got an excellent opportunity to get to China where I was supposed to find "real" English speaking friends and finally hit on unachievable Advanced level, but as far as I'm a complete loser, I failed on this stage too. All I have been meeting for 5months of stay in China are silly, pervert people with who I could have not even hope to keep the same knowledge, let alone its improvement. So in absolute despair I'm writing and asking for advice here, on italki. How to overcome that gap between Intermediate and Advanced levels. Thank you in advance!

Look through pls^^ Small text I disagree that success comes to people who are not seeking for it because, on my opinion, every new undertaking begins from searching for success. Success is the main goal at any business. Would scientists start their research if they had known from the beginning that they were destined to fail. Desire to be succeed leads us, makes us act and every little success on our way to great success encourages us. I think if a person is not interested in being successful he should rather give it up than just wasting time. It’s always a pity to see careless workers who are not enthusiastic and not interested in success of undertaking, especially when its success depends on such people.

请检查我的小作文^^ 我觉得在中国看法对吃饭跟在乌克兰不一样。对乌克兰人吃饭就是满足需要，但是对中国人这件事儿很重要。他们每天吃三次，时间一定一样。平时他们用筷子吃饭，但是有时候他们把勺子用吃饭。中国人不习把食物放在自己的盘子，他们把食物从公共的盘子用筷子带到自己嘴巴里。我到中国的时候，就发现不是中国人都喜欢吃辣菜。比如，住在深圳的人不喜欢吃辣菜，但是湖南的人们都做菜特别辣。中国人对吃饭加以注意很大。常常他们要问:“你怎么样？”用“你吃饭了吗”说。因为中国人觉得如果最近你吃过，你的事儿很好。还有中国人说我应该喝多热水，虽然在深圳天气很热，但是他们常常喝热水。我不习惯中国人的风俗可是对我来说：“入乡随俗”。

这些句子:3 请看看 （1）我喜欢去外国旅行因为我真高兴认识别的文化的人，发现他们的风俗，学他们的语，知道外国的文学。 （2）小的时候我去过俄罗斯，今年我去过中国。 （3）中国人都有一些特别风俗习惯，例如，他们习惯吃得有点大声，他们的说话也很大声，还有很多中国人常常喝热水，但是他们不习惯喝茶。 （4）我觉得这些风俗习惯太奇怪，虽然我住了在中国三个月了，但是我还有没习惯。 （5）我看如果你来外国，你应该模仿地方的风俗。我觉得语句«入乡随俗»很对，力求做比中国人做得一样。