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@resol So to summarize, you're living in Iran where your child will learn Farsi till he is 5 or 6 years old. You have no plans to retain that language. So really, the only languages you care about are Urdu, Swedish and Norwegian. Question: does your husband speak Urdu? Anyways, I think...

@asaithambi Just do it. And maybe brush up on your grammar more in the meantime. People can be such purists. I say don't let perfection get in the way of progress.

@forwhatitsworth Please follow this blog: https://chalkacademy.com/learn-chinese-busy-parent/ The author, like you, has to relearn Mandarin to pass it on to her children. She has a lot of articles written here with tips. Also, I would suggest your parents speak Cantonese to your children...

@phausof Can you share how you're teaching ZhuYin? I've bought some of those books that you can press with sounds and 小牛津 pen reads out a rhyme. There's so many different products there that tries to teach it but I just haven't found anything that interests my son. Only the ZhuYin magnet...

@lamarcook I have many friends who have become rusty with their mother tongue in adulthood and then forced themselves to speak it again once they have children. The result is their mother tongue improves until it became natural again and their children can speak both their mother tongue and...

@cb_isme I have an almost 4yo. (Disclaimer: I am a native speaker) Since about 3.5yo, I've been letting him play this app on and off: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hongen.app.word It's an incredibly effective app. My son recognise about 30 or 40 characters now. As in...

@qian I'd still recommend trying this but if it doesn't work, memorise and recite in the dark. Or there are podcasts for kid's bedtime stories. I vaguely do remember I could never get through a book with my son for the same reason but it got better as he got older. By 2, I could definitely...

@mjmichaels My son's 10.5 months old at the moment. Been speaking to him in Mandarin and English since day one. English is the community language and husband doesn't speak Mandarin at all. I speak to my son exclusively in Mandarin though I can slip if I'm with people speaking English to me. My...

@afm4516 https://chalkacademy.com/speak-minority-language-child/ Some good tips in this article around transitioning to a new language at this age.

@qian Bedtime routine. You make book reading part of the bedtime routine. That's how you get the daily reading in. Find some simple story books and read those for now. See if once she's calmed down and primed for sleep if she'll sit still and read with you before bed. If not, memorise a...

@mjmichaels Ah, rats.

@missjenjen18 Low pressure and fun. The 2 articles I've linked about is a mum detailing how she managed to pivot her 2.5yo to the minority language. You may be able to find some useful tips there. How about a trip to France for a holiday? Let them see how useful it is? Or is there any...

@mjmichaels Did you implement German hour after your baby started speaking or before?

@matthew0101 Your kid won't be confused. My parents and grandparents constantly mix around Mandarin and Hokkien (a Chinese dialect) so there's similarities as there are differences. Certain words I'd think is Mandarin until I'm older but generally, I can tell the difference. And it's not like...

@aidenb Honestly, I'd look into finding a nanny that speaks Japanese and try and find another family interested in speaking Japanese and do nanny share that way. For extra Japanese exposure. But as someone mentioned, it's more whether you get something out of this setup from a social...

@missjenjen18 No, as in. You guys don't promote German within the family. So I'll put it this way. I grew up in Australia. Everything's English around us. My family's from Taiwan and we speak Mandarin. I have barely spoke ANY English to my parents my entire life. At home, English is banned...

@leroy25 At 16 months, Spanish speaking nanny is probably sufficient for the moment. Spanish immersion daycare will definitely help too. But what will truly help is your husband ONLY speaking Spanish to your child. Why isn't he? Have you chatted to him? I would say your child has a much...

@sholay2011 Who cares what people think? I remember having older Aussies wowing about my English and I'm like, "......I grew up here." At one point, seeing Asian people speaking English was weird for some people and now, MOST people don't bat an eyelid. People need to stop making assumptions.

@andylondon If you can find a bilingual speech pathologist and even better, one that speaks French and English and is used to working with kids who uses these 2 languages, you can just get them to do an assessment and then they will tell you whether your son needs intervention or not...

@missjenjen18 You probably should cut out German completely. Switch to OPOL and can still keep English as the family language but when individually talking to your children, your mother tongue. These articles might help around the resistance...