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Common Excuses for not Learning Chinese
1. We are native speakers, but our kids refuse to speak
Chinese! They speak to us in Chinese, and want McDonalds to eat!
Some
Children, unfortunately, who have native speaking Chinese parents, refuse
to learn Chinese. This is often done in the teenager years as a method of defiance and establish their power as they become adults.
With defiance issues at that age, consider sending them to a full
immersion environment. Our daughter was starting to speak Chinese with
English Grammar, which frustrated my wife. The more frustrated my wife
became, the less my daughter spoke Chinese. My daughter got to spend a
summer with cousins in Taiwan, and nobody would speak English to her.
Within a day, she was even speaking some Taiwanese, not to mention the
Mandarin Chinese.
I am so worried about my kids Learning English and Learning Chinese will hurt their English.
The truth is scientific studies have shown that children have an amazing ability to learn more than one language, such as Chinese.
If you are a native born speaker, have one parent speak only English
and the other Chinese. This way the kids are forced to learn and speak
both. My wife speaks Mandarin Chinese to our daughter and I English,
and it's worked out great. We have not had the issue of having her mix
up the English and Chinese. Their is so much English in the US,
especially when they start school, that not getting enough English is
not an issue. I have seen students who only speak Chinese at home,
start public school and become the best in their class at English and
want to become a writer. They are also taking Chinese as their foreign
language in High School. Kids have an amazing ability to Learn a
foreign language, as long as they are given the opportunity.
It's easier to just speak English to their kids. Why rock the boat and they are doing so well academically anyway!
Kids have an ability to quickly learn a second language without an accent that Adults don't. There are so many adults I hav met who in College. It would have been a great favor if their parents had them learn Chinese when they were younger.
Learning
Chinese is a waste of time and is too hard!
Some US born Children
and even their native parents believe this. There are many reasons on why to Learn to Speak Chinese.
Studies have shown that being truly bilingual can help a
child develop their brain in new ways and make it easier to learn other
languages. As well as understanding the Chinese cultures better, such as why
the number 8 is a lucky number in Mandarin, and 4 is not.
It's
not fun like other studies in the US! Usually kids have this belief.
And it
takes time away from their other studies and video games. Usually
parents.
Their
children have better things to do, and everybody knows English anyway
around the world!
Learning
Chinese Characters is to hard.
There is Learning Chinese Software and some great books that makes
this easy.
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