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The bottom line is that you need to reinforce the language that is not the host country's language. This is done by enrolling your child in immersion schools or weekend schools, where they learn grammar and vocabulary, and hopefully some cultural context, in a structured, formal manner. Otherwise you get kids who can hold an easy conversation, at best, or who have a smattering of words, at worse, but cannot write or function in that language.

We are an international family and our kids have gone to our native language weekend school ever since they were little. All the international families we know have done this.

We speak to our kids in a mix of our native language and English  and occasionally watch movies and the news from our country. I curate some classics in our language that I require them to read. While it is recommended you talk as much as you can to your young child in the language you wish to reinforce, once children are school-aged, it becomes much harder, because they have playdates and activities and need homework help in English. My husband currently helps my teen son with his summer math course, and they talk in English, because it wouldn't really work to translate all the math in our native language. My husband's American accent is atrocious, so it's pretty funny :-)
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