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Originally Posted by Kururugi
Dear Japan Forum:
Can you offer any tips or, possibly, advice from past experiences with similar situations?
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Either hire a nanny who is Japanese native and instruct him/her to only speak Japanese full time to the baby or don't do it. Babies don't learn languages like adults, they just do the monkey-see-monkey-do thing which makes them learn much much quicker but only if the carer is 100% fluent.
2 years of Japanese tuition is not enough for fluency. Any mistakes you make (and you will make lots), the baby will pick it up and commit to memory and it would be very hard to correct later.