Your daughter is very qute.
Thank you very much for sharing your experience.
You wrote that your daughter can understand French, but she doesn't speak French....
Do you think is it due to your husband always working outside and spend little time talking to your daughter compare with you?
I am worry about that since I can only play and talk to my son at night time (from 7 pm to 9 pm) Then my son go to sleep.
Since we live in HK and prefer our son speak fluent cantonese to japanese.
My daughter is 2.5 yrs old. Myself & my maid talk to her with English since she's born and my husband and other family members talk to her with Cantonese. She could speak full sentence and understand what we talk about both in Cantonese & Eng at home now (actually her Eng is better than Cant). She also feels happy and always sing & dance at home. However, I'm troubled with her performance at school after I met with her teacher yesterday. Her Cantonese teacher told me that she's very cool and seldom to talk when she's at the school. I'm wondering if that's caused by the bi-lingual environment I created for her at home. Although she has two class teachers (one is native Cantonese speaker and another is native English speaker) at her school, the other people there are mainly speaking Cantonese. Juju's Mum, is your daughter going to any nursery school now? If she does, how's her performance at the school? Anyone who has the similar experience, could you please share your input with me?
If too much different languages all interfere at the same time, it'll sure interupt the speech. I grew-up in a five languanges environment. My mother tongue is cantonese, my dad's side parents speak mandarine/cantonese, my mom's side parents speaks Hoi Nam's dialect/cantonese. My home town is a bilingual city french and english. As I was brought-up by both sides of my grandparents, I will speak appropriate language to the appropriate grandparents at home. At school, I will speak french or english. Since both sides of my grandarents had passed away. I speak less of these languages, so slowly, my brain just closed their door to these languages. Since I got married and moved to Hong Kong, my cantonese became very fluent like a local hong konger, but my french is much forgotten. Also, english speaking is also lessen used. I do have a base of all five languages, but can manage only four of them. I'm now a mom, I've learned throught my experience that teaching my child to speak and write mother tongue is mandatory. When a child begins learning to speak, don't rush them to learn other language. Let them master one language at a time, slowly they will pick-up others (if you use the other language oftenly).Otherwise, they won't be fluent in either of them. Good luck!
Thanks for your reply. Her Eng teacher also has the similar kind of comments on her. Actually my girl likes her Cantonese teacher more since she likes female more than male and her Eng teacher is a man whilst her Cant teacher is a woman. Anyway, I'll try to let her stay with the others more and hope she'll have some good change when she grows a bit older!
At 25-month, I finally hear my son call me "ma ma" loud and clear . I guess girls are much more in advance than the boys, in terms of the speaking / language development.
Jenna (sorry that I don't know how to type Chinese & that's why call you in this way),
My daughter is also using WFE materials. She's been using that since she was born. She started to talk only around 14 months and gradually she talked more and more. Give your daughter some more time & patience and finally she will talk & talk more & more. Remember they have to learn two languages at one stage and of course the development will be a bit slow!
I would like to share my experience. My daughter is now nearly 4. I and my mother speak Putonghua with her. My husband speaks Cantonese with her and my maid speaks Indonesian with. During her school, she speaks both Putonghua and English. Most of the time, we give her DVD or VCD in English and 15 minutes of English time in the whole family everyday. Now she can speaks all those languages and dialact. But of course, there would be only one language that is her mother tongue. I agree that we need to stick on the same language when communicate with her. And now she knows clearly what language she'll use with you to communicate.
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