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Observation raising 2yo bilingual: she now prefers speaking Chinese at home. Probably due to language simplicity

This is most evident in the way counting works. If you’ve ever seen a young kid struggle saying “eleven, twelve, thirteen” you will understand. Fascinating to see it pivot in this direction though

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We do German and English at home with my 4 1/2yo. German is fluent of course and we live in Germany. With English she understands everything I say to her, but rarely talks back in English. Hopefully this Weill change as we a looking at a bilingual school when she is 6.

In about all cases you need to supplement the language that’s not being heard or spoken as much. I just underestimated how much we needed to supplement Chinese at home. At least at first. Just fascinating to see the flip in preference