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martaaaa · 17/10/2018 02:07

My daughter is 1 year old now and I really want her to know 3 languages from a very young age. We live in South Korea and my husband is Korean so he and his family speak to her in Korean only. I speak to her in Polish mainly basic things so she can later be able to communicate with her family in Poland but my main focus is English.
She loves books so I buy her mostly Usborne books and read it to her in English ( she seems to understand them) ,all songs I sing to her are also in English and by using flashcards and showing her a lot of stuff I try to teach her words in English. She can say now mum and dad but in Korean even though I spend with her most of th day.
Is there any good way to teach a child 3 languages? I don't know if I should do something more?

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IdaBWells · 17/10/2018 02:15

My kids only speak 2 but sounds like you are doing it right. The person who has the native language should speak to the baby in their own language. It sounds like you are teaching her two and that's fine. If English is not your first language and you have an accent let her listen to stories read by an native English speaker as well so have brain encodes all the sounds.

Congratulations! Sounds fun!

Goostacean · 17/10/2018 02:37

We’re raising ours with Spanish, Russian and English. I speak Russian to him, DH speaks Spanish, and we speak English between ourselves.

My understanding is that it should be “one adult, one language”, although that’s complicated as you live in Korea so obviously baby will be hearing two languages from you... Ideally though you’d choose a language and stick to it, and then introduce the third through nursery, for example.

Good luck! Will be interested to hear how you get on: my DS is only 8mo.

Luxembourgmama · 21/10/2018 20:58

My kid speaks 3 she has French in daycare German from her dad and English from me. It seems to be working well so far she's 2.5 and speaks slot

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