A glimpse at life in our trilingual family
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
I speak English with our two children (soon to be 2 and 5 years old). My wife speaks Swedish with them. The outside world is in French. (Note: We all speak all three languages too).
Here's a glimpse at how that works, with special guests Otis and Astrid. Hope you find it as fascinating as I do!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, Oliver G here. This is the Earful Tower. And today I'm doing an episode about |
| 0:05.2 | languages where my two guests are my two children. Otis, who will be five years old really soon, |
| 0:11.6 | and Astrid, who will be two years old really soon. And the topic of the episode is language. |
| 0:19.0 | I know from experience, it's really hard and probably not very fun for children |
| 0:23.9 | if I'm just poking them and saying dance, dance, talk, talk. So I tried to do a really natural |
| 0:28.6 | little conversation with them about essentially what it's like to live in a bilingual family |
| 0:34.5 | in a trilingual world. So I hope you find this interesting. I am personally |
| 0:39.9 | fascinated by the subject and language in general. So if you are too, I think you'll like it. |
| 0:47.0 | Otherwise, let's get into it. Otis and Astrid with me and a little bit of Lena here and there |
| 0:53.5 | talking about languages. |
| 0:56.3 | And I will say as well, this show brought to you by the members on Patreon and Substack, |
| 1:00.8 | where the new 2026 Guide to Paris has just been launched free for all members, otherwise on sale, for everyone else. |
| 1:09.5 | The feedback has been amazing. I think this guide |
| 1:11.6 | is one of the best ones yet. It's 10 years of my research at Paris. Put into one PDF guide. Check |
| 1:17.4 | out in the links below, but now time for some language. Hello everyone. My name is Oliver G. |
| 1:43.4 | My name is Otis G. |
| 1:46.8 | I see G. |
| 1:48.2 | Okay, and how old are you? |
| 1:51.5 | Four and then five. |
| 1:54.8 | So soon five. |
| 1:56.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:56.5 | And what about you, young lady? |
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