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@aldredian Holy crap, 25 daycares to weed out unsupportive ones? That’s a lot. It sucks you had to try so many. That’s a good idea to ask the parents for songs and some basic words. So far the parents have seemed fine with trying to reinforce other languages(if I’ve tried saying bye in the...

@jamesmason10 So it seems to pretty much just depend on the individual family/people and maybe the context of what the different languages are, the language abilities of the teacher, etc. Makes sense

@relle25 That makes sense about the language abilities of the teachers and wanting the kids to learn the community language. To the last part, yeah. Kids will dance and bob to pretty much any music anyway(especially the age group I work with who are only just starting to understand language at...

@violetstarlight That’s a cool story about coming home singing twinkle twinkle in Mandarin. The power of kid’s friendships, huh? That would be really good with the two German and two Italian kids being friends and talking with each other, but the age group I work with is infants and young...

So, I am a childcare teacher living in/from Australia. First off I want to say I think it’s awesome to be raising kids multilingual and honestly I sometimes wish either of my parents knew a second language to pass to me now that I have an interest in linguistics and languages as an adult. At...