Although I mention parents specifically in the title, this isn’t just for parents to respond.
My wife and I are trying to raise our child to be bilingual (English and Portuguese). Currently we’re both speaking a bit of both to our child and when they eventually go to school we’ll speak more Portuguese as they’ll be exposed to English everywhere else.
Is this a good approach or is there something we can do better?
My wife and all of her siblings are bilingual. Her parents only ever spoke their native language at home, and let the kids learn English out of the home. It worked. My wife speaks and writes better English than I do as a native speaker, although she was a teacher’s pet and I was a rebellious little kid.