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@christianguy2121 if it helps, I grew up with siblings and we spoke in Chinese and English (although moreso English when we were younger) together. However, when it came to our parents we spoke only Chinese. Now we’re all bilingual. What this means is that it’s okay for the siblings to speak in...

@griffinflores77 I don’t think it would be too much necessarily, but I’m not sure how happy your son would be if you replaced video games with more studying (but it seems like he’s interested anyway). Do you speak Japanese? the only problem I would see is that he wouldn’t have a native speaker...

@mayfrancis Wait so theoretically speaking, given the perfect conditions and language learning environment… How many languages could a baby/kid learn until adulthood? I wonder if there were any studies/experiments on this

@trueform Where did you get that 30% figure? From my linguistics professor back in uni, I was told that babies are quite malleable in the sense that they can learn any number of languages (not sure if there was a limit), but I don’t believe it was constrained to just 3 languages. I have a...

@cb_isme You said that Mandarin isn’t your native language, so does that mean it’s a foreign language that you learned as an adult? If so, how proficient are you in the language? Just curious cause I think it’s pretty impressive you were able to pass down a foreign language to your child, which...