gerrr

Like Geoff said. We're raising an English/Japanese speaking child and we have many friends in the same boat whose kids have had varying degrees of success. It's not as easy as it sounds and it takes discipline. The key is that the child must be regularly be in an environment where they HAVE to speak the less common langauge. It's about necessity. I can think of a few examples where the children speak Japanese all day and Japanese exclusively with one parent. The other native-English speaking parent speaks a lot of English with them but can also speak Japanese and often does. The kids can understand a lot of English but they don't speak it and are not 'bilingual'. That's a pattern that we could easily fall into but we're determined to have an English-only house. Hopefully that will do it.