Teaching DS second language

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My DH is from another country and fluent in that language. We live in the UK. I don’t speak the other language but we would like our DS (who is currently newborn) to learn the 2nd language. If DH speaks exclusively or almost exclusively in the 2nd language at home, is this possible?

Any experience or tips would be appreciated

Yes baby will pick up the language if DH is talking in it to them. You might to want to learn it too as they will quickly be chatting away.

Yes. He won't be teaching if it's done like that. The child will simply acquire a second mother tongue and hopefully be bilingual (or near enough, true bilingualism is difficult but near enough is great- my own DD is like that)
If you look up the OPOL (one parent one language) method, you'll get some ideas. But really, all he needs to do is speak to the baby in his own language, expose the baby to that language with books and films etc.
It's a great gift!

Yes, try to keep one-person-one-language, so you speak to your DC in your native language and your DH stays in his language.

Yes I think that is what is recommended in your position. You speak your language to him, DH speaks his language to him exclusively. If you and DH communicate in English and you live in the U.K. he may still pick up English more easily but will hugely benefit from the second language

Yes. Dh speaks English and I speak a second language to the DC. Not consistently but most of the time. I also read a lot of books and sang songs in that language to dc. Till about the age of 3 dc1 was equally fluent in both languages. Now they are clearly more fluent in English but still understand everything and can hold a conversation in the other language.

With dc2 I was even less consistent with speaking the other language so they have picked up very little of it. The more exposure you (is your dh) can provide the better.

DSis was married to a French man. They did OPOL, even though DSis's French is very good. My nephew and niece are both truly bilingual in spoken, written and read French/English to the extent that, although they grew up in France, and went to French schools, they are both studying/working in English speaking countries. They both also speak passable Italian.

Sorry, posted too soon. Both my bribes and niece spoke a bit later than considered "normal", but once they did, they spoke English and French interchangeably.

As I said understand it, I think it's pretty normal to speak a little later if you're exposed to two or more languages, so don't worry if that happens to your LO OP