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03-14-2008, 10:58 PM
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When i marry and have kids, i really want to teach them three languages. English - universal and my mother tongue. German - my dads language. The language of my future spouse; which i believe will be asian, as i have a bigger attraction to them more than to western women and i want to live and work in Asia for a while. What are your views on this and when is it appropriate to introduce these languages? A good friend of mine suggested that i am demanding and i agreed but demanding for good reasons. I will obviously want to learn when to give way if there are learnng difficulties. Two languages are fairly easy. Dad speaks his language and mom speaks her language and when mom and dad speak together, they speak in english. But in practice it doesnt seem effective and when i want to take my kids to english school, they may not know enough english. What is your advice?
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03-15-2008, 07:19 AM
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Kids who grow up from the start learning 3 languages most likly wil have no trouble learning them all. I have heard that it is common to mix up the words, say half German half English, but it equals out
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03-15-2008, 12:20 PM
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03-16-2008, 10:52 AM
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I agree w/ the earlier the better. Plus the three languages are so different from each other that the kids shouldn't have too much trouble differentiating between them or mixing them up. I wish my parents taught me more than one language. They only used other languages to speak between them so we couldn't understand what they were saying!
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03-19-2008, 11:17 AM
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Comming from a bilingual family, I'd suggest you talk to your kids in the foreign language a much as possible. English, they'll pick it up on their own, just by watching TV, or interacting with other children. All my kids are bilingual (English/Spanish) however they mostly choose to speak English unless they are talking to somone who speaks Spanish only. (my 16 yrs old boy speaks "Tarzan Spanish" but at least he can communicate in that language) I did not said a word in English to my daughter until she was 3 years old, however by them she was already speaking English fluently, which she learned on her own, just by watching TV and hearing her brothers speak it. Of the three, she is the most fluent in Spanish. | ||
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03-19-2008, 12:39 PM
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My father side has Austrian and I studied German in highschool so it's a language that is dear to me. I try to use some German with my daughter when I have opportunities and I've taught her to count in German. She also learns a bit of Spanish in school.
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03-19-2008, 02:31 PM
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Studies have shown that a child will start to learn while still in the womb. As well, once 3 languages are learned, they have proven that learning any number of languages is much easier. My daughter was exposed to 7 languages from before she was born to about age 3 ( about the time that finding that much material is a lot harder.) English is my spoken language, yet my daughter is in French immersion, and has abilities in Spanish and Mandarin. The more you can expose your child to... the better off they will be. How bad can it be to educate a child ?  | ||
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03-19-2008, 02:32 PM
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I love the Baby Einstein's Language Nursery DVD.
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