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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not true. I spoke to my DD my native language for one year, then she went to American day care, and English started to compete with the other language. She didn't speak until age 2, so when she started speaking in English, I started responding in kind. She didn't forget the other language until later, and that's because DH didn't speak it, either, and there was limited exposure to it "in the wild." She does say she wishes she still remembered it, but she definitely wouldn't have been willing to put in the effort, and I'm just not the type to force little kids. Plus I feel ambivalent about my native language because, similarly to Mandarin for a Cantonese speaker, it is not actually my heritage language, but I do not know my own heritage language (Yiddish). [/quote]

You stopped speaking to her in your language that why forgot the language.  It was you who needed to put in the effort not her. She would have just continued to listen to you speak it, she would probably answer in English but at least she would continue to hear it and understand it.  If as a teen she wanted to speak it she would have been way ahead in learning it.  [/quote]

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