Raising a multilingual child won't cause speech delay if you keep languages separate. Bilingual and trilingual kids need more exposure to each word, but they won't get confused when caregivers avoid mixing languages.
Parents always ask me, okay, I've got three languages going inside the house. That's so normal now. And the parents will say, especially the mom will say, oh, is it going to affect the kid? I already told you no. Right. And the reason why is because it doesn't matter what types of language you're giving your child, as long as you don't mix it, we generally know that it's a different language. The reason why is because us bilingual or trilingual people, we require more input. We need to learn words more than one time. If you're like me, like, if you talk about a car in English is car and China is not in Cantonese and Indonesian as mobile. And as long as you don't mix code when you're talking to a child, you won't confuse them. Okay? And I see this happen a lot, especially in Southeast Asia. They mix the whole thing up. So basically what I'm trying to say is, as long as you don't mix code with your child, you won't confuse them.
