讀了SC, 反而不願說英文?

joeyxlma

回復 agaperamy 的帖子

May I know if English is your mother tougue? Do your child knows you speaks Cantonese too?

Assuming that you are Cantonese speaking, so my fair guess is that you may only speak English to him but will speak Cantonese to others, so knows very well that you could speak Cantonese and more important your mother tougue is Cantonese.

If it is the case, I think it is just because he could feel that your English is not your best language; or at least not mother tougue and so do not feel that he should speak in English with you.  It is very natural to children..Children are very sensitive to language and could diffentiate who speaks which language.

I myself have a similar experience but the other way round, i.e. when she is small I speak English & PTH with her, but when I she got to 2nd term of K1, I purposely not to speak English and PTH with her because my Eng/PTH are not that good as compare with her teachers (native speakers). I don't want her to learn anything HK English/PTH from me.

I think the most important point is that you are worry too much on this. I don;'t think it will affect his English standards at at,

joeyxlma

回復 agaperamy 的帖子

My girl is in EP class too.
It is very interesting to find out that when they talk with the classmates, they will automatically and naturally switch to English or PTH (in outings, even in private birthday party).  That's why I think you need not worry and children can handle multi languages when they speak to different person.

joeyxlma

回復 cutecutewing 的帖子

Yes, and they speak English/PTH with each other very naturally.

joeyxlma

Both Eng and PTH, but I think a bit more in English