If English is not the only language that your child speaks, be ready if he or she understands more than you expect. “Bilingualism accentuates children’s conversational understanding”: this aspect of cross-cultural interaction was noticed in research conducted by M. Siegal (University of Sheffield, UK) and his colleagues from Italy, the U.K. and Japan.
It showed that bilingual children aged 3-6 demonstrated heightened sensibility to “violations of conversational maxims” (that is, maxims of quantity, quality, relation, manner and politeness).
In case you want to assist your child to make their first steps in interacting with foreign children, try Driving Kids’ mini-chat! Embedded in an online game, the mini-chat provides kids from any part of the world with a virtual playground for enjoying games and communication. The first lesson: es ist schön, n’est-ce pas?* 
* Es ist schön (Germ.) – it’s nice; n’est-ce pas (Fr.) – isn’t it?
