Read the text and complete the gaps with the correct derivatives of the given words

I am English and my husband is Brazilian. From the moment we received the [ ] news that I was expecting our first baby, we made a conscious [ ] to bring up our child speaking both languages. I think it is because my husband and I come from very different [ ] backgrounds that we wanted our children to have the language skills necessary to experience the best of both of them. We [ ] believe that a child experiences no more [ ] learning two languages from birth than it has learning one, and it surely goes without saying that having the [ ] to communicate perfectly in two languages is a great asset for anybody.