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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - thank you all.  I'm grateful that no one seemed to think I should let it slide until daughter succeeds in her new school.  I've taken your advice and have had the discussion with husband and he is going to talk to his mother.  I will absolutely use your refrains if she does bring it up again with me after her conversation with husband.

As for why it is important to us that daughter learn three languages - first, the school is wonderful beyond being just a bilingual school.  Second, is one of the closest schools to my work and after two years of having her on the same campus this was important to me in case she gets sick.  Third, many, many children in Europe speak/learn three languages and are better for it.  I know from personal experience that learning English, German and Latin as a child has been extremely beneficial to me and enabled me to pick up French easily in high school.  [/quote]

I am Swiss and grew up speaking three languages.  There is a popular joke in Europe:

What do you call someone who speaks three languages?  Trilingual.  
What do you call someone who speaks two languages?  Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks only one language?  American.

Best of luck, OP.   [/quote]

So true about Americans - and I am one of the monolingual Americans!  I tried to learn French - actually went to school in France for a year - and failed.  All of my friends who were raised in bilingual homes picked up French easily - even those whose second language was not a romance language (one friend was in a Korean/English household while another was Russian/English).  It's like there is some switch that gets flipped when kids are very young and it makes all other languages come easier to them.

I congratulate you, OP, on encouraging and teaching your daughter to speak several languages.  Your MIL is wrong.  
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