[oh_nice_marmot]

We have a similar configuration at home.

I am from Brazil, my wife from Finland and we live in Sweden. We speak English to each other.

To our two and half year old daughter, we speak our native languages and she learns Swedish in daycare.

In the beginning we showed some YouTube for her. The Brazilian Mundo Bita is great with catchy songs and amazing animation. My wife wanted to show the Moomins and we got some Swedish Babblarna as well. Disney+ has a lot of content already translated to every one of our languages. But we noticed that her mood swung wildly after her television stint, max 1h and not even every day. So we decided to not watch TV, for now at least, and concentrate on books/coloring/etc.

We read/have plenty of books. Sweden has great libraries with many titles for the little ones, also in different languages.

If I would rank her skills: #1 Finnish, #2-3 Portuguese/Swedish. This past month she started saying small things in English too, even singing the Happy Birthday song.

All kids are different, and interests ebb and flow, but I am hopeful that, in the future, Portuguese and Swedish might help with other languages like Spanish/Italian or Norwegian/Danish if she needs them for whatever reason.

It is impressive how kids can learn so many languages. But very tough, a constant effort to translate and encourage her to speak the native language of the parents. Specially in the beginning she would confuse who-speaks-what and we would scratch our heads when she made a phrase, in baby-speak no less, mixing different languages in it or modifying words to fit the logic of one language. Very interesting.

The main thing I learned is to find what interests the child and go that route. Be music, books, TV.

[Gud]

Thanks a lot for this info. I will be in a similar situation down the road. I speak Swedish, my girlfriend speaks an Indian minority language and we live in Switzerland.

I was always worried if the kid would be able to manage 4 languages. This gives me hope

[CogitoCogito]

> I was always worried if the kid would be able to manage 4 languages. This gives me hope

What makes you worry exactly? I mean in the case your child can't really manage 4 languages, is that a problem?

[Gud]

I would wish me and my girlfriends kids can speak our native languages.

[stevekemp]

I have many fond memories of our child, who speaks Finnish and English, switching languages mid-sentence.

"saisinko milk", or "Where the maito is?"

That happened for the first 2-3 years, but less often these days. Though Finnish is his native language he'll sometimes say "I don't know the English for this word" rather than just substituting the Finnish word.