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My girl is 3 now (finished Vic PN, going on K1) and I think she is pretty much bilingual in Cantonese and English.
We are a Cantonese speaking family with relatively good English. I am a ESF graduate while my husband is local school graduate but university educated abroad.
My baby's first language is English as we are both working parents and she is exposed to filipino helper all day. When we hired the helper, one of the key things we looked for was good english and grammar. When she started learning to talk at 1-2 years, she clearly preferred english and my husband and I just continued to speak to her in English as it was easier to get her to understand. Of course we would try to communicate to her in Cantonese too but she clearly preferred English.
However, when she started PN at 2 at Vic, I was slightly concerned because at our campus at least, majority of parents are cantonese speaking, and hence her classmates are also cantonese speaking. From one some of their interactions, I felt that she wasn't socialising as much as she could since her friends couldn't understand what she was saying in English (and she didn't understand the cantonese). Hence I increased the effort to speak to her more in Cantonese at home, but it wasn't until Christmas when we took a weeklong trip together (without helper, so full cantonese immersion) that I felt her cantonese greatly improved. In the second semester, I found that she seemed more happy at school and was better at socializing.
Her english hasn't deteriorated as it is still used everyday and I can easily get her to switch languages depending on who she is talking to. So I feel that it is pretty easy to get kids to pick up languages at this age as long as they are fully immersed in the environment for a while. I am currently very happy with her language abilities in both Canto and English and the next battle for us is the Putonghua which we dont use at home regularly but slowly she is beginning to sing songs and communicate in simple answers. This ability I solely attribute to the teaching at Vic, but she is definately not fluent in PTH so I'd imagine if I had no english at all at home, her english may be at a similar level.
So I think overall, Vic provides the medium for all 3 languages but whether your child can be fluent really depends on your work at home. |
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