3 year old mixing up 2 languages - I am supposed to correct him?

[TheBlonde]

My 3 year old is mixing up his languages
His majority language is English but he will use Swedish nouns instead of English ones

I am just supposed to repeat the sentence back to him with the correct English noun?
Do nothing?

Maybe not repeating the sentence, maybe just sort of answer yes that is [insert the english word here]

As 3 and no more says I think the key is not to correct and make them repeat it but sort of say yes and say it yourself correctly ie showing that you have understood, so they are not put off, but that way they still hear it correctly.
My MIL is always stressing the S and T on the end of words with my dd's 4 and 2. V annoying.

thanks, I don't want to discourage the Swedish as it's his weaker language

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I would repeat the whole sentence back in English, and then in Swedish, so he's able to get the noun in the right place too.

I can't repeat the sentence in Swedish

Try www.bilingualbabies.org and wwwbilingualfrombirth.com for some useful tips. This is what I do as a paid job - try to encourage parents to raise their children bilingually in Wales. The advice we often give is that children might be three or four before recognising that they have two languages. After this age they will realise that they have two and then will be able to use the right language with the right person / situation.
have fun!

incidentally, if he carries on being bilinguial he'll prob do the same as an adult - switching between his 2 languages - albeit more intentionally. Caled code-switching and v v interesting phenomenon...

My dc do this with their two languages, I say a correct sentance in response but never make them repeat what they've said correctly.

They'll sort themselves out eventually.

Thanks

When DD (2.6) throws a Hebrew word into a sentence I just ignore it, because while she understands everything DH says to her in Hebrew, she doesn't speak it much at all so I don't want to correct her and discourage her from speaking Hebrew. I'm sure she'll sort herself out eventually. For now I'm just happy that she's finally using a little more Hebrew.

I know quite a few kids who have been raised bilingual and understand both languages fine but refuse to speak in the weaker language. So I want to encourage DD to speak Hebrew as much as possible. As long as we both know what she means, there's no problem!