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We're raising our son trilingual (English, Japanese, Mandarin), living in Okinawa, Japan.

My wife and I speak Japanese and English with each other, 2yo speaks Japanese at daycare, English with me, and Mandarin with Mom and Grandma.

Definitely took longer than other kids to start, but It somehow seems to be working.

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It's really wonderful and I'm envious too!!
In the future, he'll be able to work anywhere in the world with just his language skills!

Not sure if you’ve encountered this site but seems very interesting to me. I personally don’t think I have that much dedication though

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Actually I hadn't seen it! Thank you and will also share with my wife.

Not sure if you’ve encountered this site but seems very interesting to me. I personally don’t think I have that much dedication though https://chalkacademy.com/

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that's super cool!

Who did your kids speak what language with?

Starting so early is fundamental. My kids are trilingual too (Japanese, English, Italian)  but we spent some years in Italy to increase the confidence. He will thank you once he grows up 🙌🏻

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Everything seems impossible until it’s not with them.

So funny

How consistent is the Mandarin exposure? We were considering adding Japanese at a later time

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thank you. indeed, the language developmental stages are completely off for us. a challenging confounding factor is that he does have some attributes the correspond with other developmental differences, so it made us a bit nervous about language. 

But he seems to be smoothing out and catching up rapidly, so we'll see!

You are doing great. Don’t worry about anything you read about language development by certain ages. All that nonsense is for monolingual kids. Your little one will be so ahead of the game and be able to learn a new language in school for fun! Your son is so lucky to have you!

that's fascinating....never heard of that model!

Great job! 

Had friends they did daily language when all the family spoke the same language on specific day of the week. Everyone speaks 3 languages now.

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yep, you got it

(I only speak a bit of mandarin, listening is good for topics I have to talk about all the time like child-related stuff and food)

there's no right answer and the puzzle changes as they get older and are more influenced by their peers

for now, this seems to be working for us

The thought of how this should be done has been in my mind since I was a 12 yo kid.

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That's a lot of languages! I'm happy to be somewhat proficient in Japanese, but four languages growing up is awesome!

Feels like this was how I grew up

Fukien, Filipino at home
English, Filipino, and Mandarin at kindergarten to high school 
Basic French and Russian in college

Its fun being able to understand other people especially when they talk about you in a language you know 😆

woah, so do you know the languages otherwise?

This is so awesome! Mandarin and Japanese are notoriously not easy languages to learn. Fun fact, I've tried to get into a joint Japanese-Mandarin language degree in the UK 😅 emphasis on tried

this is amazing. our little one is just about to start and I would love her to speak fluently in English and Spanish. Mom is Italian so maybe we go trilingual as well but needs to be set into practice how you have done it here. So cool

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