Hello! I am just curious to know how common it is among multilingual toddler to just focus on one language.
My 21 month old son is exposed to 4 languages (German, English and franch at daycare 4 days a week) and to italian at home. We live in a German speaking country.
He apparently undertsands them all (at least so I have been told by nursery) but he will only speak Italian and reply to them in italian even if they speak to him in german/english etc. Is this common? I myself am bilingual (italian/german) so I could potentially speak to him also in German but my husband would not understand it too well and in addition I am bit more fluent in italian than german so I decided to stick to italian. Do you think I should encourage its german or since he understands I should not worry becouse german will eventually come later (it will be the majority language)?
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ItalianMUM89 · 31/10/2023 15:53
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