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istara · 3848 days ago · link · · parent · post: Does anyone have an opinion, any tips or experiences regarding raising a child with two languages?
From my experience, the child will speak what its peers (schoolfriends) speak, but it will still understand you, and receptive language is the most important thing. So if you are living in the US but you speak to it in French, for example, it will likely reply in English. Don't stress about it. Just keep up the French as much as you can. There's also no point making a concerted effort to teach it the language of the country you are living in. There is no way the child won't quickly sponge that up once it starts school. You may as well focus your efforts on whichever the "foreign" language is.