Catalan/Spanish for children

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Pops

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Hi,
My family and I are moving to Ibiza in August next year. I am currently busy checking out all of the school options and have decided that my first choice will be the local school in San Josep for my two oldest sons (8 & 4), as I want them to really integrate. Both of my sons already speak Dutch and English, although my youngest gets the two mixed up constantly. I am concerned about how they are both going to cope with two new languages at the local school. Does anyone have any experience of this? Would it be wise to get a Catalan and Spanish tutor for the first half year we are on the island? Any feedback would be great! p.s. I have already started with Spanish lessons :)
 
Pops said:
Hi,
My family and I are moving to Ibiza in August next year. I am currently busy checking out all of the school options and have decided that my first choice will be the local school in San Josep for my two oldest sons (8 & 4), as I want them to really integrate. Both of my sons already speak Dutch and English, although my youngest gets the two mixed up constantly. I am concerned about how they are both going to cope with two new languages at the local school. Does anyone have any experience of this? Would it be wise to get a Catalan and Spanish tutor for the first half year we are on the island? Any feedback would be great! p.s. I have already started with Spanish lessons :)
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There are many other good schools in Ibiza other than San Jose (which is usually over subscribed) so It would be best To have another 2 options to put on the form. Schools are allocated according to where you live. Lessons are taught in Catalan but Spanish is spoken mostly. Would be advantageous for you and your kids to have lessons in both languages before you live there and tuition when you live there, that will assist integration wherever you live on the island and wherever your kids go to school. :)
Anyhows I'm no expert! I don't even live there yet. So hopefully someone else will reply with great advice and more knowledge :)
Good luck and your kids will easy get the gist of 4 languages at the ages they are :)
 
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the simple answer is that they will be fine. knowing different languages already will help and although there might still be confusion, it really has little overall impact.

state schools provide free additional catalan tuition to kids after school that need it.

mine went through this process, i can't recommend state schools enough.
 
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