leftyderek

Hi there, I'm yet to be a parent (which I'm glad 'cause... yep, I'm still in university), but I have a question about parenting. Here's it:

So I was born in Hong Kong and I speak Cantonese, Mandarin and English pretty fluently, although not perfect. And my beloved one is from Switzerland and speaks Swiss-german, German and English, pretty fluently also. And we communicate, of course in English. And we have been wondering, how is it possible (if at all) to make our childen learn hopefully all the languages we speak?

I have seen kids and know friends who mix languages when they speak due to their multi-lingual childhood environment, for example a friend of mind would speak Arabic mixing in English words, or I have seen kids speaking English mixing in Cantonese or Mandarin words etc. And we don't really want that to happen to our kids, if we decide to have one maybe, say, 5 or 10 years later.

Any interesting experience or ideas to satisfy the curious 19-year-old here?

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