up to this moment, i do support to develop bilingual at the earliest stage, i am reading the book regarding the same, raising my kid in this way ~ let's see how it goes
I think they would confuse. My 2 year old boy start talking in "human language" a little later than those kids that only deal with one language.
In my case, we live in US. We talk in Cantonese at home, but most of the TV kid educational program we let him watch (not too much, but still have about 10-15 minutes a day) are in English. When other HK BK mom said their kid already talking, my son still talking to me in baby language. He is very talkative now ... in Cantonese sentence, but with lot of word in English. I think he has no problem to understand Cantonese, but only 80% of English coz he is not going to school and deal with English speaking people too much yet.
I want to say there are different ways to raise / educate your child. Since most of the couple in HK right now only got one child. Everything is in a test basis. Method 1 works for your kid but might not work on mind. Anyways, I’m just sharing my experience and I think there are no right or wrong. One thing I do agree 5月媽媽 say ”所有幼兒教材, 基本要求是必定有家長或懂使用教材的人仕陪同小孩玩。” and since I’m a working mother, I can’t afford to be with my kid all the time. So, I had to find the other way to educate my child. But something I want to clarify, I didn’t let my son to watch the TV all the time. He only got 15-30mins when he below 1 (since most of time he’s eating or sleeping). And he goes to nursery when he’s 2 and now he’s studying in a full day kindergarten, so actually, he didn’t had much time to watch TV.
Confusion in the beginning is normal and bilingual kids always talk later develop language slower than those only handle one single language. But, it is not absolute to every kid. I live in US and my husband knows little Cantonese. So, my husband talks to my kids in English and I talk to them in Cantonese. The key is consistence. Our pediatric doctor told us that if one person communicates with them in one language, the kids can learn even though it may slows down their development. Do not use mixed language. Before my son went to daycare, he talked purely Cantonese. Now, he's more towards to English as all the kids and teachers in school speak in English.
My daughter speaks good English and Cantonese. She started talking early and I believe that it's because girl usually develop language skills earlier than boy and she has a sibling to copy. To raise a bilingual kid is not easy, I'm just at the beginning. I have seen some kids good at 2+ languages but lost the 2nd or 3rd language when they grow up, either they have not used it regularly or just been distracted on other interesting things. So, even though kids have good start on learning 2 languages, it matters if they can keep up with both.
原帖由 rose-mag 於 10-1-5 06:24 發表
Confusion in the beginning is normal and bilingual kids always talk later develop language slower than those only handle one single language. But, it is not absolute to every kid. I live in US and my ...