I'm going to have a child in January.
My situation is: I'm Italian, my wife is Japanese. I speak Italian, English and Japanese fluently, my wife can only speak Japanese, with some words of Italian, and a school level broken English.
I would love my kid to be at least bilingual, even better trilingual, but considering that we cannot give a completely non Japanese environment at home, I'm wondering what I can do to make things work better.
Anyone in the same situation who had success?
Japanese will of course come naturally because we live in Japan, and even in pre kindergarden years the kid will spend a lot of time at the Japanese grandparents' house.
I personally give English more importance for their future, at the same time if I completely disregard Italian that would mean my family is basically never going to be able to communicate with him/her.
On one hand, English will be taught to them anyway at school, and there are a lot of ways they could learn it, where Italian (while less useful overall) is going to be "do it now or probably never".
In my optimistic mind, I can kinda see me being able to force myself to never speak Japanese to the kid, with the help of TV/youtube/various media in English/Italian, I should be able to kickstart it.
But I don't see myself able to provide both languages just by myself, not for lack of willingness, but I don't really see that working.
I'd love any kind of advice.
by Genryuu111