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    Exposure concerns: OPOL

    @kristyen Perfect, another very valuable tip: stick religiously to EN when speaking to her. If you are in an environment where no one speaks in EN, you don´t want to give your child the "choice" of picking the majority language to address you. Keep on going, you will soon see the fruits of your...
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    Exposure concerns: OPOL

    @kristyen Hi, I understand your concerns. Try to maximize the words per hour that you use when you have some quality time with your daughter. Block time in your calendar to focus on speaking to her, singing, asking questions, describing, and interacting in English. Luckily there are plenty of...
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    Wife feeling excluded

    @x902xxipher I totally understand your wife's initial rejection of the OPOL method, BUT if you don't speak to her at all times in German (if you live in an English-speaking country), she won't have a chance of becoming a balanced bilingual. I just shot a video about a similar issue. You can...
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    "Teaching" Foreign Language if not fluent?

    @thomaswhitetw HiI highly recommend you not to speak to your child in a language that you don't master. Children should learn languages from high-quality resources. As a language teacher at a multilingual school in Zurich-Switzerland I can tell you that it is very hard to get rid of "learned...
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