This book aims to enable parents in trilingual families to consider possible
language strategies on the basis of analysing their individual circumstances. It
includes a tool for diagnostic self-analysis that will help each reader to
identify their situation and learn how parents in similar situations have
approached the task of supporting their children's use of languages. Based on a
unique survey of parents in trilingual families in two European countries, the
book highlights the challenges that trilingual families face when living in
mainly monolingual societies. It takes into account the recent emergence of a
"New Trilingualism" among educated parents who find themselves in trilingual
families because of global