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| I highly suggest you "switch" channels now.  As your child grows older, the resistance to pick up Cantonese and any form of Chinese will be progressively stronger.  English is an EASY language to master compared to Chinese, so it is natural that once a child is firmly established in English, he will not want to look at Chinese again. 
 I used to talk to my daughter in English only.  My helpers are Filipino, so they talk to her in English as well.  Many of the Chinese kids and kids of other nationalities in my building are my daughter's playmates.  Even the Chinese kids speak only English!  I realized the potential problem of her shunning Chinese completely.  After my second baby was born when she was almost 20 months, I could spend more time at home (I work part time).  So I just kept talking to her in Cantonese.
 
 It took a while even for me to remember to speak to her in Cantonese, but it worked.  She will be 3 in two months.  Her Cantonese is better than English now, although she is generally capable of communicating in both languages.  However, I do not envision that she will have problems with English because I also plan to send her to an IS.
 
 [ 本帖最後由 elmostoney 於 09-3-17 21:25 編輯 ]
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