Anyones partner picked up your language that you speak to your dc's?

[Jahan]

I'm just interested really. My dh has picked up a few words and phrases and says (jokingly) that he feels a bit left out when I speak to ds in my mother tongue. He'd love to learn but would have to take a course or something I think.

No DC's but DH has picked up my BAD language My family at home think it's hilarious when he comes out with things a foreigner should never even hear let alone speak!!

My DP has picked up nursery rhymes and words such as nappy, booby etc. but beyond that not much. He insists he's crap at languages and will never learn ( he already did a course years ago before meeting me), but I've noticed that (annoyingly) he seems to be understanding a lot more lately.

Does you DH travel with you often to your country of origin? One trick I've found is to swan off and just dump him with a non his-language speaking relative for an hour or so. My BIL was amazed with what my DP managed. It's too easy when I'm around as official interpreter, this way he has to make some effort. Necessity is the mother of invention and all that....

Oh yes, he knows all the swear words and insults, with hardly any trace of an accent, oddly enough.

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Yes I get that with my nearly 3yo, I explain in English why she can't have something so she goes and asks Daddy who hasn't understood the first conversation and says yes. Cunning little so and so.

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Pitchounette - yes and no. I'm used to "my men" ( that sounds really tacky) not being able to understand me and I've always found it quite convenient in the past.

However, as my long term partner I do feel that he could be making a bit more effort. He's a total Anglophile, so it's not out of a lack of respect for my culture, it's just laziness and sometimes it grates a bit. I have stopped translating quite so much for him and have "lost" him on occasion so he's had to sort himself out, but the improvements have only ever been short-lived. He's convinced himself that he's a total dunce at languages so there's no point bothering.

At the moment he doesn't get left out of conversations as DD speaks mainly Italian anyway and when she doesn't she will translate for DP if necessary, but that will change as her language evolves and he can't keep up. I do wonder if he expects DD will translate for him when I won't...