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about the apple thing. my younger sister (half spanish half french) is married to a half german half french man. they usually speak french to each other, and my brother in law uses german with their sons while my sister uses spanish (and so do I). when their eldest boy was almost two i showed...

@ptrnoy777 you can teach them at the same time. your husband in english, you in french. no need for flashcards either. it's not that difficult to say "une voiture rouge" "tes chaussettes bleues" and so on. for numbers you can count with hum, tell him "il y a deux pommes"... i like children...

@meshaa my nephew Gabriel was upset when i said words in german and said very clearly "apfel" is dad, mimi is manzana (both my sister and I spoke spanish to him) and the common language to us three adults was french (so he actually said "nooooo, apfel c'est papa! mimí c'est manzana!"

@lippy1004 no

@matthew0101 then, videocalls with galician family for baby (with you!) some songs and dibujos animados in galician :-) your son will understand very fast that you speak english spanish and galician, that mum and the community speak english (but that mum understands spanish) and that los abuelos...

@matthew0101 how often do you visit your family in Galicia? and how often do they visit you? one solution would be that your relatives adress him in Galician. i presume you usually use that language when you're with them. your son will learn the language on those visits :-) otherwise you can...

@jmz bilingual kids have often no delay at all. what I mean is that bilingualism is not the cause of speech delay. bilingual children are not most often delayed than monolingual children.

@matthew0101 he will grasp they are different languages, since words for objects, verbs... won't be exactly the same.