Language / Help Required Teaching Sister Polish [9]

There's a one parent one language rule that people talk about. I assume it applies to anyone who interacts with the child. So mom speaks english, dad polish, the nanny german, the aunt russian, and the brother in law only uses sign-language. One caretaker one language. Also I second Krzysztof remark about her responding in english, she'll understand any language long before she can use it.

So, xChupitax, you'll have the greatest success if you speak polish to her and only polish all the time. Otherwise she'll think the words all belong to one language. Or otherwise be confused. Or otherwise not relate well to you. Another option is to speak only polish all the time in certain contexts. Then she'll learn it as a separate language.

You don't say, but it would probably also be helpful/important for you to be a native/fluent speaker of the language.