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作者: Walala99 時間: 13-5-3 23:35 標題: What language do you speak to child?

I'm aiming for international school for my girl, but Cantonese is my first language. Wondering if I should speak English to her? What do you speak to your child? Most IS conduct interview in English right?

作者: acdad 時間: 13-5-4 09:30

U may check previous discussion on this topic . We speak Cantonese at home but sent the kids to int'l kinder.

http://www.edu-kingdom.com/searc ... mp;searchsubmit=yes

作者: HKTHK 時間: 13-5-4 12:08

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Depends on which school you are targeting. Just look up in what language they interview in.

作者: Walala99 時間: 13-5-4 18:59

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Thank you very much!!! The link you gave me is really informative. I think I will choose to speak Cantonese to her and read her English story books. I'm so happy that I made up my mind. ^^

作者: acdad 時間: 13-5-4 23:26

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個人認為,毋须為入讀國際學校放棄本身的母語,英美通街都是以英語為母語的人,又代表乜口野?我成家都講廣東話,教個細路出來要我o地用英文同他溝通,唔係口卦?!

作者: Brenday 時間: 13-5-5 11:32

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作者: goodyma 時間: 13-5-7 10:44

acdad 發表於 13-5-4 23:26
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個人認為,毋须為入讀國際學校放棄本身的母語,英美通街都是以英語為母語的人,又代表 ...

作者: evatsoihk 時間: 13-5-7 15:49

Walala99 發表於 13-5-3 23:35
I'm aiming for international school for my girl, but Cantonese is my first language. Wondering if I ...

既然是国际学校，那么所有英语都会在学校学到的了，无须操心....你在家中保持跟她说自己的母语就好。

作者: ABDADDY 時間: 13-5-8 13:38 標題: 回覆：What language do you speak to child

I speak Cantonese, my wife speaks English to our kids.

作者: AggieBB 時間: 13-5-8 14:28 標題: 回覆：Walala99 的帖子

My kid has just been admitted by an IS. Our communication is in English but our first language is Cantonese. We will maintain this environment as the preparation for the second child. The spontaneous response of English for interview cannot be build up from
Tutorial center or kiddy. Daily training is the most important.

作者: HKTHK 時間: 13-5-8 17:16

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I don't think I understand "Our communication is in English but our first language is Cantonese." How does it actually work in your home? Do you speak to your kids in Cantonese or English?

作者: shadeslayer 時間: 13-5-8 17:26 標題: 引用：My+kid+has+just+been+admitted+by+an+IS.+

原帖由 AggieBB 於 13-05-08 發表
My kid has just been admitted by an IS. Our communication is in English but our first language is Ca ...

If the child communicates only in English with you, then the child's first language becomes English not Chinese, right?

作者: AggieBB 時間: 13-5-8 17:28 標題: 回覆：HKTHK 的帖子

Since last year, my hubby and I hv talked to him in English. When there is conversation with Grand Mother or Maid, he speaks Cantonese.

作者: HKTHK 時間: 13-5-8 17:31

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Are you switching back to Cantonese then? If not, how are you going to keep Cantonese as a first language?

作者: viviwei16 時間: 13-5-12 19:33

I speak mixed of Cantonese, mandarin and english to my daughter and she reply back in mixed language as well. She will start her K1 in ESF this sept so I don't think it's necessary to speak full English at home.

作者: FattyDaddy 時間: 13-5-12 20:40

viviwei16 發表於 13-5-12 19:33
I speak mixed of Cantonese, mandarin and english to my daughter and she reply back in mixed language ...

Mixed language (i.e. a mixture of words from different languages in a single sentence) is generally not a good idea, the reason is that the child may have difficulty speaking each language in full. For some societies this is common and accepted, like Singlish is a mixture of English, Malay, and Hokkien, but Singlish is not well understood outside of Singapore and Malaysia / Indonesia.

作者: Mighty 時間: 13-5-12 21:31

viviwei16 發表於 13-5-12 14:33
I speak mixed of Cantonese, mandarin and english to my daughter and she reply back in mixed language ...

只看這文章、我覚楼主好似好PROUD OF自己OR自己個女可用幾種語言COMMUNICATE、BUT正如FATTY DADDY講左LA、這種教法一D都５籍得ENCOURAGE　LOR.　会造成言語障害GA.　我以上這堆話、相信只有香港人先明LOR.

作者: minirat 時間: 13-5-13 10:39

ABDADDY 發表於 13-5-8 13:38
I speak Cantonese, my wife speaks English to our kids.

Same in our family. I am the only one who speaks to my boy in English, coz my first language is English. My husband and the other family members speak to him in Cantonese. He is 22 months old now and I can tell that he can understand Cantonese better and it will probably become his first language. Even though I think English is very important, I still encourage my husband to speak to our boy in Cantonese, coz I do not believe in speaking to kid in any other languages apart from your own mother's tongue.

作者: minirat 時間: 13-5-13 10:41

FattyDaddy 發表於 13-5-12 20:40
Mixed language (i.e. a mixture of words from different languages in a single sentence) is generally ...

I share your views. It will affect your communication ability. However it won't go to that great extent of language barrier, unless exposed to more than 4 languages at one time.

作者: davhui 時間: 13-5-24 16:50

本帖最後由 davhui 於 13-5-24 16:51 編輯

I know families living in HK who speaks 4 languages(father from Denmark, Mum from japan, Helper from Philippines, English in School) and their kids have no problem at all. They will pick it up. Don't worry and underestimate your childs ability. Yes, there will be some barriers compare to single language environment but it is totally manageable.

作者: fanfanbb 時間: 13-5-24 21:06

I quite buy Yew Chung's theory in Language. The principal said parents should speak their native language at home with kids as nothing is more important than 親子關係. At home I speak Cantonese and my hubby English as our primary language. Seems he understands both

作者: fanfanbb 時間: 13-5-24 21:07

And, parents shall make sure their english and grammar are corrent. Not my first time to hear parents are speaking "wrong" english to their kids. Why force?

作者: md23 時間: 13-5-24 23:02 標題: 回覆：davhui 的帖子

You gals do know that there has been plenty of research on it, right? Coz a lot of what you said was just plains wrong.

作者: wymanbutt 時間: 13-6-1 14:00

To be honest, I really don't get the fuss of speaking English to your children at home. I understand lots of parents want to create an English speaking environment for their loved one and hope to improve their English, but, personally, I don't think that help at all. Especially when lots of parents' English isn't their first language, this action will just misled their children to learn inaccurate using of the language, and, their Chinese level will decrease instead. I speak Cantonese to my son, as always. The way I support my son in learning English mainly is I encourage him to read more, and create an atmospher for him to fall in love of the English language.

To be honest, if he loves watching American drama and reading, need not to worry about.

作者: viviwei16 時間: 13-6-2 00:35

Didn't log into baby kingdom for a while, didn't know that there were some comments regarding my post. My post was to reply the topic here and didn't really think of showing myself or what. As I speak mixed of language at work it's quite nature for me to do so at home. I didn't say I am correct and I didn't force others to follow me.
What I wanna say in my previous post was dont change the language we normally speak just to create the environment we think is better for kids.

作者: Walala99 時間: 13-6-3 10:13

It's been awhile since the last time I was here. The intention for me to set up this forum was to let parents share their views regarding the language they use with their kids. Every parent raise their kids differently. We may not agree with one another, but we should always respect each other. ^^

作者: circle 時間: 13-6-4 19:58

I and my husband spoke in English with him since born up to 5 years old. But we encouraged our parents to speak Cantonese with him. It's true that I have used Chinese with him no more than 5 times during 5 years.

After he succeed in primary interview, we switched back to Chinese as he spoke mainly in English at school and home ( helper), the only chance he learnt Chinese was at night time after we were back from work.

Now, his English, mandarin, Cantonese are no problem, and now he's learning Japanese as required from his school as a third language.

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