Re: Teaching a child three languages
- From: Lee Sau Dan <danlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:15:36 +0800
"Andrew" == Andrew Dalby <akdalby@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Andrew> Maybe Peter will allow me to expand on this important
Andrew> point. Parents can get unnecessarily uptight about minor
Andrew> problems that arise. For example, there will naturally be
Andrew> times when a young child knows how to say something in one
Andrew> of the languages and not yet in the other(s) -- so slips
Andrew> into the 'wrong' language. What do you do?
Tell him how to say that in the "right" language. That could be in
the form of a question. e.g. "You want to eat 'ice-cream', don't
you?" instead of the boring "That's called 'ice-cream' in English."
Or just carry on with the conversation using the right word.
Andrew> You just take this in the same way as you would in a
Andrew> monolingual family if a child happens to use a mistaken
Andrew> word etc. If you understand, then communication has been
Andrew> achieved, and that's the main thing. You probably mix
Andrew> languages sometimes in talking to your partner, so why
Andrew> shouldn't the child do so too?
No, I don't mix languages, because my Mom doesn't know non-Chinese
languages. :)
Andrew> But, if you think it's important, you might insert the
Andrew> correct word/phrase into the conversation. That's the most
Andrew> you need to do, I'd say. The sorting out of languages (and
Andrew> dialects, and registers) is a continual process, mostly
Andrew> unconscious.
I don't think so. For languages with very different phonological
systems, it's easy to tell which word belongs to which language -- up
to a minor amount of overlaps. E.g. English words don't have tones.
Cantonese words don't have word-stress. It's difficult to mix them
up.
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E-mail: danlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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