Posted 17 July 2008 - 02:59 PM
Salams, I don't have kids but I will give you an example from my own family, my mother is pure north indian but my father is yemeni of indian ancestors who was raised in yemen from an ethopian mother. My mum speaks only hindi and english and my father speaks arabic,amharic and very little hindi . So it was like this, mum spoke hindi with us, and father amharic and arabic, since we lived in yemen most of our life we automatically learned arabic, but later when we moved to india we siblings would still communicate in arabic together till today.
Now to give you an estimation, I am fluent in hindi, arabic and english and can understand 75% amharic but don't speak it. My brother on the other hand is married to a pure indian so my nephews speak hindi and english but are verry weak in arabic blame my brother for that!
I think like the other sisters said, one of you should speak arabic and other english but since you live in the states your kids inshllah will automatically learn english so no worries. I guess if you live in arabic country wil learn arabic in school and by interacting with other kids, the same if you live in an english speaking country.
Abidah