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    Raising child trilingual (OPOL) when parents don’t speak each others language

    @pollyton Our child is 20 months and most of the “words” are animal sounds currently, which are fairly international, and easy to go “yes, it’s a dog!” in our own language, so the correcting confusion wouldn’t really happen. We are aiming for three languages, so my husband will try to learn the...
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    Raising child trilingual (OPOL) when parents don’t speak each others language

    @pollyton Maybe Dutch and Hebrew is more complicated, but with our languages, we are simply picking up the language at around the same pace as the child. Even if we don't recognize words, we will understand out of context. If my husband says something to our child I have no clue about, I will...
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    How do deal with limits of OPOL for a non native speaker?

    @fireblaze If getting children's books (which very much are designed to teach the vocabulary!) in your language isn't an option maybe you're able to find some children's shows revolving around construction vehicles and dinosaurs (and whatever else he's interested in), where you can learn the...
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