She has been surrounded her entire life by quality language in both Finnish and English (she is dual mother tongue) so as children do, she replicates and mirrors her surroundings.
Does she get the languages mixed up much? I read that in a dual-language household it helps when one parent only speaks to the child in one language, while the other parent only speaks to the child in the other language -- I don't know how effective this is.
Our daughter gets about 90% in Finnish so her Finnish is slightly stronger but she doesn't confuse them at all. My wife speaks to her in Finnish or English depending on if I am around and me mostly in English (my Finnish is not great). What we have done is differentiated by 'What mummy says/ what daddy says' but now she knows the difference and uses 'in Finnish/ in English'. She knows which books are which too.
My niece is bilingual too and used to confuse the languages until about 3 years of age, it is common.
Thanks for answering my question. I am always inspired by your willingness to engage with random commenters. 😊
No problem. Conversation for me is a big part of being a part of what is to come. In random and uncertainty is where most of the value resides in life :)