We’ve finally moved permanently to Colombia, so Amelia is 100% surrounded by Spanish speaking people now. We’ve been here a few months, she’s almost 2 1/2 now, and starting to speak a lot more. Her sentences are up to 3 words now, her vocabulary is going up fast.
I try to speak Dutch to her all the time, although I have noticed I throw in Spanish words here and there. Sometimes she already knows the word in Spanish, and it can be a hassle to use the word in Dutch if she doesn’t know it. But in general, it’s all Dutch from me.
She responds a lot in Spanish though, which is now fast becoming her main language that she uses most of the time.
I’m gonna keep up the good fight, see how it goes. Next time we go to Belgium, I’m definitely going to stock up on Dutch-language videos and such though.