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@frandamian86 He's just about to turn 10 months, so it's still a little too early to tell. He clearly understands some stuff in each language, like certain phrases that he tends to hear more in one language than the other. He's just starting to say his first words. Mama and baba he says pretty...

@pattianne4 Similar situation. My wife grew up in a place where two languages are spoken natively. I speak a language that's completely unrelated (different language family from the other side of the globe). We both speak English. We thought four languages would be too much to start with, so...

@zhuru523 That question is hard to answer because there are a lot of facets to it. Do you mean "learning" as in natively from a very young age, or learning as an L2 in school? "Mastery" is hard to define, and varies widely even among native speakers. It also depends on how related the...

@pollyton My wife and I are in a very similar situation. We both speak to our 16 month old son in our own languages. Those two languages are completely unrelated and we both have only a very rudimentary grasp of the other (similar to what you said, neither of us can read the baby books in the...