For those of you raising or who have raised a bilingual child

I'm in the process of teaching them Tagalog. They're now learning body parts. They prefer to speak English. It's good that way because all their friends are Australian. Atleast when we travel it's not too hard for them. Teaching them while they're young.😊

We made sure they were fluent in English first then sent them to barnehage aged three and half. Six months later they were indistinguishable from the natives. They rarely mixed up the two languages (English and Norwegian).

I on the other hand being 30 years older took five years to achieve my fluent bad accent and am now able to be simultaneously tongue tied in two languages and even more often only able to bring to mind a word in the language I'm not speaking.

Throwing an English word into a Norwegian sentence doesn't bother most Norwegians but dropping a Norwegian word into a conversation with an English speaker tends to derail things.

I can't answer but the question fascinates me. How the mind works speaking multiple languages. What language do you think in and the instant translation while speaking. To my pea brain it's baffling

No kids myself. Yet I was raised in a bilingual family. Actually mom spoke three and dad spoke seven. Yet German was the family language.

I learned, yet I didn't learn it very well at all. Not even after going to Germany.

I preferred the language of my friends and those around school and of course babysitters.

I didn't spend a lot of time with family. The next youngest was 16 years older than me.

Interesting that you mentioned mixing words.

My mother, late in Life, actually did mix words of all three languages. Not my father though.

Our 15 month old will be bilingual. We’re speaking to him in English more tho but so far I haven’t seen any concerns

My daughter did not talk much at all till she was over 3 with Vietnamese and English

We were told not to mix languages mid sentence when she was really, really young as it could be confusing. Other than that, her preference is English but she uses the odd Greek word here and there

My parents threw me into a school based on the american system in latin america, so i would forget how to speak spanish while living in the states.

Not sure if there's a tagalog school nearby where they can go on the weekends or after school

My cousin married a Mexican woman in december 1990, their children took to both Spanish and English quite naturally with each.