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newmama's home language policy is surely ambitious!
i have a quite unusual situation at home, therefore i do understand and agree with wisekid2007's advise.
it's sure that children at their learning age, they are able to handle different languages easily. but i question that you still have to give up something in order to gain it.
in our case, our sons speak and able to switch 3 languages (french, cantonese and english) as wish. however, they don't master any language literary as good as the children at the same age with their native language.
i have luckily married the prettiest french girl of the world (to my eyes of cause  ) so our sons do have native french speaking at home (i speak french with my wife with an chinese accent... i'm not a good languages speaker model myself....). their grand parents come home 3 times per week to see them.
but what i have seem, our sons did speak later than normal.
elder son could really express himself around 3 years old in all the 3 languages, and our second son is almost 2 1/2 now, still confuse with them...
i'm not saying that it's good or not good to learn so many languages at age young as both me and my wife really want our sons be native both in chinese and french, so things come naturally.
however, when i look back, i did see our sons suffered by their short of expression in speech.
i remembered once we watched a video from kindergarten, the teacher has asked the pupils what is holding in her hand? my son was the 1st one answered, but he said in french.... he didn't know how does it call in english or chinese.... he was so confuse and a bit upset, and wonder why the others had a different name for this. 
be patient and a lot of encouragement is really important at this stage, explain him what is the different and extend his vocabulary in different language from time to time is our only method.
we don't push them much on the languages actually. we just try to find them as many as story book as possible in the 3 languages, and every night, either my wife or me read 2 or 3 stories with them before bed. i watch cartoons with them and explain and answer them whenever they have questions.
somehow, at age 4 1/2 now, my elder son manages to speak better english than his french and hkg cousins (not that difficult actually, he he ), speaks better french than his US born french cousins, better cantonese than his british/chinese cousins, i think we couldn't ask for more! 
[ 本帖最後由 flostangraphy 於 09-1-29 19:52 編輯 ] |
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發表於 08-11-10 22:11
