How do children in multilingual households differentiate between the two (or more) languages they’re being taught?
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Father of a multilingual child (French, Dutch & later English). At the very beginning, they don’t make the difference. They just mix the languages. And if we consider that a 2-year old kid knows 60 words, it will be probably 30 words in one language and 30 OTHER words in the other language. Or it could be a mix of 40 and 20 words. Quite an experience to live.
Only when they start going to school, where only one language is spoken, they start to separate the languages from each other.
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