My children don't speak English

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I am British and live with Italian dh in Italy. My eldest son is bilingual but my younger two (6) don't. They undersrand but really struggle to speak and are very Italian in the mistakes they make (I not like this, you wait me etc plus really Italian accents). What can I do to sort this out? People have told me that they will get there but I really don't think they will! Anybody been in the same situation? I can't take them to the UK atm unfortunately. Thanks.

I have a 12 year old DD who is French-English bilingual and mother-tongue standard in both. We live in France and DD speaks English to me and French to DP. DP and I speak French together. DD has two older half-brothers to whom she speaks in French.

I think you need to create an English speaking home to counter the Italian speaking world outside the home. Do you read a lot to your DC in English?