How do children in multilingual households differentiate between the two (or more) languages they’re being taught?
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A long time ago I knew a couple where the wife was french and the husband was American. Both spoke both French and English and they wanted their new daughter to speak both as well.
For them the wife spoke French almost exclusively to the child and when in the house. The Husband spoke English almost exclusively to the child and when in the house. The theory being that the child would associate each language with each parent and realizing that they were distinct languages.
I don’t know how it worked over the long haul, but seems like a decent theory to me.
The Husband did say that his daughter looked at him strange the few times he had to speak French when they were visiting France or some such. So the kid did realize that there was a difference.
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