Chinese to English or Spanish?

As Mommy mentioned before, April had a rough start in preschool. She speaked all Mandarin in her daycare. The daycare lady won't even say a single English word unless the kid can't respond to her. It was a pure Chinese nourishment. Then the preschool is 180 degree change. Everyone there speaks English. The first couple weeks was tough for both April and her class teacher. The Chinese teacher got called a few times per day to do translation upon critical situations, like she's agitated about something, or she needs to do #1 or #2. After first couple weeks, she started to speak Chinese to her classmates, treating them like they can understand Chinese. Once Mommy asked her teacher, "How is she communicating with her classmates?" The answer is FINE. Kid has their own language or the body language is good enough for communication. That reminds Mommy of the Colorado trip to visit Yihsin and Rex. April spoke Chinese to Kyle who responded in English, and they understood each other well enough when combating each other.

The second stage of the language development is that she fully accepted it's an English institution, she hasn't started talking in English yet but she resent during Chinese language class. Her teacher told Mommy, she couldn't understand why April wouldn't join the class. Seems like, to her it's now all English, nobody should speak Chinese. It's wrong to have a Chinese class in school! Then Mommy had to talk to her to help her understand.

Then April started saying some English words, no sentence yet, but more obviously, she started to count in Spanish. She would rather count in Spanish than Chinese or English, we will have to force her to repeat the counting in Chinese or English.

Now's she's balanced on either languages and we had to control her speaking less English. She will only translate her English to Chinese if she's in a good mood though.