roper if he's learning it at nursery / with friends etc he'll soon be in the position my brother and I were with our parents. We were far more fluent than they were and I'm afraid just used to mock their attempts :oops:. Which is why I don't speak it any more. They tried to speak it at home when me moved back to England, but it just didn't work.
French people are bad with languages too .
it is starting to chnage though , and english is taught at a much earlier age than when i was at school .
I don't think it's ever too early to start talking, in however many languages. I remember being at school with children who could speak 4 or 5 languages at a very early age.
As someone who is mixed race, but not bilingual, I very much wish I could speak two languages.
My mother is british and my father is HK chinese. My mother only speaks english and my dad speaks both english and cantonese.
I was only ever spoken to in English, and though I lived in Hong Kong for 7 years, I never picked up Cantonese. I feel somewhat ashamed that I can't speak the language, and it is embarrassing when a chinese person approaches me, assuming I can speak cantonese.
I am now making the effort to learn the language (at the grand old age of 21) - As I don't live in HK anymore I'm guessing it'll take a while, and I really wish I'd been exposed to it more as a child.
My brother is English living in Sweden with a Swedish wife. From day one he spoke English to the kids and his wife spoke Swedish. Both kids are not even in their teens and speak English better than most English people.