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Yes, we'll be starting from day one speaking two languages - I'll speak English to our LO, my DH will speak Albanian.

Later on, once they have a good grasp of those languages, maybe at age four or five, we'll start adding other languages. I don't want to overwhelm them at first.

We are trying to figure this out...DH wants LO to learn Russian, but I don't know if I feel comfortable with him only speaking Russian all the time to the baby, since I don't speak/understand Russian.

We dont have a LO yet , but I definitely plan on speaking Cantonese to him/her and hopefully have my parents a lot so that LO will hear conversations also instead of me just talking to him/her. My husband doesn't speak though so LO will get all the English he/she needs too.

I saw a very interesting talk about infants and learning a while back.... It basically talks about how the study showed that infants are like a sponge and pick up on sounds and learn to distinguish and recognize them between 6 and 9 months, and after that, the ability to recognize different sounds drops a lot. I cant find the video, but the text version can be found here: http://www.pnas.org/content/100/15/9096.long

My Cantonese isn't that great either but I want DD to learn Mandarin, not Cantonese anyway, so we are sending her to Mandarin school starting in a few weeks.

Parents and il speak Korean... We speak English. Will send them to Korean school when they r older...

My plan is for hubs to teach her Mandarin and for me to teach her Spanish....I'm not sure how it'll work out seeing as he doesn't speak Spanish nor I Mandarin. It'll probably be easier to just do English, but I really want her to have fluency in multiple languages.

@oliviaoblivia: I've heard of families where each parent is associated with a different language, and if you're going to do multiple languages that's a good arrangement. You'll probably both pick up enough of each other's languages as time goes on, too!

We've been speaking french/english to both kids since birth. Mavrick (now 26 months) understands both, talks a little of both but it's still gibberish at this point.

I speak English to our son and my husband speaks German. Our son is 20 months and has some German words, like closed and more, but he has other words in English, like key and cocoa.

My feeling is that at this point, children don't know it is 2 languages, it is just more words for the same thing. There are some people that think adding a second language causes delays in speech and I am still on the fence about it. I don't think it's so much about the number of words a child has at any point, it's more about how many words they add in a week or a month. Having said that, we're getting our son evaluated because I am not comfortable with his rate of adding words. Comprehension is clearly not his problem, because we can tell him in English or German to throw something away in the kitchen garbage and he does it every time.

When he's older, he will go to German school to learn to read and write. I didn't learn how to do this in Italian and it is one of my biggest regrets. My son may hate it, but it will benefit him later one.

We speak to LO in English but since we are in tokyo, she hears and is spoken to in Japanese everyday. Most everyone LO interacts with, speaks Japanese. My mom also speaks to her in Japanese when we FaceTime. Once we leave Japan, I'd like for her to continue learning Japanese, both by having me speak to her in Japanese and also going to classes.

Since our next move is to Beijing and LO is only 8 months old, I'm sure she will pick up some mandarin as well. I am slightly concerned as to how this will affect her speaking. Whether it will confuse her and delay her speech but I guess we can only wait and see.

I speak Korean fluently and my mom will be our primary care after I go back to work; so we're hoping to teach LO. DH is Caucasian and is looking into Rosetta Stone to keep up as well

@Alivoo01: I speak Cantonese too!

@autumnlove: Yay for another Canto speaker!

@Mrs. Lantern: That's so cool that you were born in Hong Kong!! When I was younger, I wanted to be a TVB actress. Ha!

@sunny: I don't think I've ever heard of Canto school, but have heard plenty of Mandarin ones. Mandarain school is how I learned to speak, read, and write. Where are you located?

I grew up speaking cantonese. My husband is Taiwanese but his mandarin is worse than LOs english. I'm starting to speak more Cantonese with our kids and my parents speak to them in Cantonese when we Skype once a week. LO also just started preschool at a language immersion school that teaches entirely in mandarin. I hope husband and I can improve in our mandarin through his learning.

@Mrs. Lantern: I was born in hk too. But came to the states very young. I've always wanted to live there. Maybe one day, but husband finds it too densely populated which is true.

@Alivoo01: Oh TVB! I loved watching it...and always had a crush on Jacky Cheung lol. As a kid, I went to canto chinese school for 10 years and learned traditional chinese writing. Wish I had the reading/writing skills I had back then!

@BoogieBea: Samers here...moved away from HK when I was 4. I went back to work there for a year after graduation. It has crossed my mind to go there for a few months during mat leave (canadian mat leave is a year) but I'll have to look into that some more