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Some of my friend's kids seem to have real issues with being multilingual up to the point that they refuse to speak any other language than what they speak in daycare or school. So that got me worried a bit.
Knowing that it works quite well for you is encouraging as I started wondering if I was too ambitious trying to raise her multilingual.
On that note, we are just back from a trip to Europe to meet the family & friends and DD was quite excited about meeting everyone and hearing the different languages. We are back home now it she almost seems to be bored... ;-)
Maybe it also depends on the child and specially on the surroundings. If he / she listens to other saying it is not a good idea to be multilingual at that age because of being confuse or anything, the baby or kid will asimilate it inmediantely. If on the other hand he see the parent specially joyfull and really enjoy talking in the other language or making it like a game, i am sure he will take it very good.
I am wainting patiently for my grandson (son's son) to change his idea about languages. Amazzingly, he is 4 yrs old but since 3 he says he likes ONLY spanish. Just with a Backyardigan book i brought form USA he is willing to listen to english and with a video (SERGE goes to FRANCE) he is willing to what something in French. I am not pushing, just waiting.
On the other hand, my daughters' daughter she is 6 weeks and already listening to 4 languages: spanish, english, french and some chinese.
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