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I learned French in school, but it's not my first language by any means. My community is bilingual so I speak it on a regular basis and hope LO learns it from an early age too. I'll speak French to the baby - maybe not ALL the time, but enough to give a foundation so that when he/she starts french immersion in school they are not totally lost.

If you want your child to know Spanish...like really know it, the. It needs to be spoken all the time. My parents spoke only in Arabic to us at home. Even our movies were translated to Arabic.
We learned English at the same time simply by going to school and out in public.
I speak both fluently & with an accent.
AlthoughArabic is my "native language", it is still sometimes awkward feeling to speak it to LO, so I don't have an solid advice on how to get your DH on board. I just got a bunch of "baby Einsteins" in Arabic and Arabic kids CDs (of music) & tons of books so that my LO can learn it almost on her own with our help, of course. Because LOs learn the first words usually from TV & music. I mean most kids can't put a sentence together but they'll tell you they want to watch Dora.

* I was speaking arabi fluently at 3 and English fluently at 5 ( when I was immersed upon entering kindergarten) My mom says before then, I was allll sorts of mixed up;) but no one worried and I now have a total of 5 siblings who went through the same thing. All of us are very articulate & more than proficient in both languages (the standards of language profiency are so low!).

I am a non-native Spanish speaker who is fluent in Spanish. DH does not speak Spanish. I will speak Spanish at home to LO, and especially read him books in Spanish. As he gets older, I will speak more in Spanish to him, but right now it is just equal parts English and Spanish. I don't speak Spanish to him outside the home.

@mrsjazz: it's awkward for the human mind to switch languages like that sometimes:/ I think it will be easier for him if she already knows & likes Spanish. Then he will feel like its their thing;) maybe order the "full Spanish" DVDs of Dora the Explorer for her to watch? Then she will speak it and it will encourage your husband to do so too. If my kid spoke to me in Spanish I would def encourage it & learn some to enforce it!