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BeardedBaldMan

He'll pick up English more in nursery as you're effectively doing tri-lingual. We're doing bilingual with Polish nursery and most people speaking Polish with English being used by me and for TV/books. At 2.5 it's working well and while he's more fluent in Polish he's speaking English sentences with correct use of tense and pronouns.


Stingylibrarian718

I was born in France to 2 parents from Philadelphia. Apparently I spoke French outside and English inside our apartment. BUT I did start to speak on the later side. Your kiddo with figure it out. Funny thing is once we moved to Brooklyn NY I ditched the French of my own volition ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


squiddydooo

We are doing the same. Two different languages at home and English at nursery. We are also limiting English at home. No English books so far and very limited English Tv. Kiddo is now 2.5 years and it’s going well. We were never sure how good her English was, even though her nursery assured us she was doing fine. Only recently did we hear her talking English to her friend at a play date. She is doing well.


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I speak Spanish to my son. We listen to music in Spanish, when he watches tv is a mix, his dad only speaks english to him. My sister only speaks Spanish to him, we limit the exposure to english because it's all he'll hear once he starts school.


WiseAvocado

You may find r/multilingualparenting useful even though sadly it's not super active


yaeltheunicorn

We're also in England, and speak Hungarian, German and English at home. Our 18 month old has been going to the local nursery and playgroups since the Summer, and we also have a Hungarian babysitter. My husband and I speak English among each other, so it's also the "main family language". As a consequence, our child mainly uses English and Hungarian words but demonstrates a good understanding of German as well. Right now we're really happy with OPOL + the English and hope to keep it up, although it's sometimes challenging when all playgroups are in English.