My children have two nationalities - luckily both of them are EU nationalities. However, since we live in the home country of my wife, my children have little to nothing in terms of contact with their second nationality of my home country. Both passports for them are largely interchangeable in terms of power and freedom of travel. My children also will never need to decide whether to give up either nationality, making it easier for them to just have a “passive nationality” in the back pocket.
Do your children also have more than one nationality? How does this impact your and their life? How do you manage to retain ties with both countries - if at all? I’d love to hear different perspectives on this topic.
If I may ask: which two languages do you speak alongside English? Does your child understand (and perhaps already speak) all three?
I’m sorry for not giving the exact languages, but one of them is Latin based and the second one is Slavic. He knows the name of things, animals and what sounds they make in both languages, funny enough he even translates for us. He is also starting to get concepts like “soon” or “later” in both languages.
English is tricky because when my wife and I talk it’s generally about abstract concepts like how our day went, what we should cook, gossip and what no. So he can’t really associate the words with something that he can see or touch.
