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Thanks for all your inputs. My wife is fluent in 3 Chinese dialects plus Malay, I speak two Chinese dialects myself. We speak mainly English and Mandarin Chinese at home plus some Hakka, which, is my wife's native tongue.
My niece is 4 yrs old and is fluent in three languages, she knows to talk to her dad in English (he is an English-American) and to grandma in Chinese only. I want to raise my kids so they can utilize the languages effectively as they grow up.
It's tougher for them because they stay at the homecare which is English speaking only. My elder one responds to Chinese and English but only replies in English. I just don't want him to become a typical ABC - America Born Chinese.
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