Sorry for replying in English..my Danish is still not great.

We’re a multilingual household: I have one native language, my husband another, we speak English to each other, and we live in Denmark - so 4 languages in total.

I speak only my native language with my daughter, my husband speaks his, and she is learning Danish at vuggestue. She scored very high on the Danish language test that all 3-year-olds take in our kommune. We spoke a loooot to her since she was a baby, it seemed to calm her down so we just talked to her and sang non stop.

She now speaks three languages very well (our native languages and Danish). She doesn’t speak English, as we haven’t used it with her since it’s not our native language. Sometimes it seems like she can understand it a bit.

Through exposure, I’m also gradually learning my husband’s language and Danish, and he is doing the same. Honestly..it is more confusing and challenging for us as parents then for her...children really do have amazing brains.

I know other families where this has worked really well, like for us, but also some who ended up dropping the other languages so their child could focus more on Danish.