Multi-lingualism in children
. German-language skills are a prerequisite for being successful at school and later in life at work. Your children should therefore have sufficient opportunity to learn the German language so that they can follow their lessons in school. At kindergarten or in the child day care centre there will be various support programmes for learning German.
But your mother tongue (also referred to as your first language or family language) is also very valuable for your children's future, for example as a special skill in their career later in life. If you speak one or more languages other than German at home, it is important to also speak these languages with your children.
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There are also opportunities to support your first language or family language outside the family. In some towns, there are, for example, bilingual kindergartens/child day care centres.
