Question for parents raising children in a foreign country (other than the country where you were born):
Do you speak your native language with your children?
Discussion
I don’t speak my native language with anyone. We speak English at home and my kids speak Japanese (well, one is only 2 yo his speaking is limited and he speaks more English).
I mean they are bilingual they speak English with me and wife and Japanese with everyone else.
That’s so cool! I wish we would speak more Portuguese at home… My youngest barely understands anything…
What’s stopping you?
Sin?
Cool! Tell me more about it.
More?
As insinuating duped or tell you more about how the head of state is having a day which by la is a fraudulent sale?
Please elaborate what more there is to tell you about?!
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All going time is now kinda low even for the corrupt community when the massacres are hitting home.
But by all means, do elaborate what more you need to be told.
You are funny 😆
Funny how?
Let’s see whether those families having lost dear ones to this mess find it funny. I must be missing the punchline.
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OMG YOU ARE A BOT RIGHT?!
Script puppet much, you mindless drone?!
It’s not?!
But hey, if desiring to pile up in that body count, have more going cheating and faking. Arguing about doesn’t know when on display somehow is the very corruption justifying the cheating and thieving.
I don’t.
🤷♂️ 
I think it has to do with the fact that the lines between the languages became very blurry in my mind. My wife and I always switch between Portuguese/German/English in the same conversation…
Ah. We made it a point to only speak English at home and let kids absorb Japanese elsewhere (grandparents, kindergarten, out and about). To my surprise it wasn’t difficult for my oldest who is 5 now. He still applies some Japanese language structure to English and I correct him when he does and he learns it pretty fast.
It must be hard for kids to figure out 3 languages 😆
I have a cousins who know German, English, and Italian and they seem to be alright.
Sad. There's a window of opportunity, when we can learn languages like nothing and then it gets hard. Why throw it away?
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Let’s try that again.
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Of course. Why?
I grew up in France. My father spoke French with me. My Swedish mother spoke Swedish and my German stepfather spoke German. Exclusively. Then French at school. We lived in Germany for a while and I also went to kindergarten there. So I grew up trilingual. That worked out quite well.
I wish my parents did, but they prioritized assimilation. They didn’t think it was a big deal because most Nigerians speak English. They are a minority ethnic group in Nigeria, so there aren’t any mass produced educational products for independent learning. I wish that they shared that part of their culture with us.
It's difficult when both parents have different native languages...
Short answer: I try, and he still understands quite a lot, but replies exclusively in English😅