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How to raise a trilingual kid? Hello everybody! My dream is to raise a multilingual baby (maybe because I am monolingual myself but I have a great passion for new languages), so when I found out that I am pregnant I immediately started thinking of how to make my dream come true. I have a great opportunity to raise bilingual baby at least because I am Ukrainian myself and my husband is Chinese, and we also live in China(I am planning to teach the kid Russian and my husband will talk to the kid in Chinese since he doesn't speak any other language :D). The next step is to insert English into my plan. I am not native English speaker and despite I can simply communicate with English speakers I still don't think my level allows me to teach English as native language. There are a lot of reasons like: accent, the way of expressing my thoughts is different from English speakers’, not forget to mention grammar mistakes. And even if I decided to teach the kid 2 languages, here is the next problem: how is he supposed to distinguish them? The only idea which came to my mind is teaching the baby through cartoons or short videos made by native speakers. Theoretecally, the kid might digest all the neccessary information and even accent if it's watched over and over. This would cut the chance of teaching the kid my own mistakes. But it is just a theory, if anybody tried to raise a kid in such an "artificial" environment, please, tell me if it succeeded. Or maybe you could share any other idea or experience? Thank you in advance!

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