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I trend to believe language talent depends on individual kids, not depends on gender. At first, I believe girls are more talkaive and able to manage bilingual better than boys, which many examples tell me so. When my litte girl borned, she broke my believe. My case is:
Elder son:
April baby. Before age of 3, he lived with grandparents, no Filipino maid, 100% cantonese & 0% English at home. He started K1 at IS kinder (non ESF) and moved back to live with us. At that time, I have no intention to talk with him in English, we keep using Cantonese. His teacher said he was reluctant to speak in English. But then, he adapted English environment at school well from K2 and no more complain from school about his English since then. He is Y5 now, though he prefers to speak in English, he has no problem to understand and express himself in Cantonese (dare not to comment on his Chinese reading & writing ).
Younger daughter:
Dec baby. Before age of 2, daddy 100% cantonese, mammy & brother 100% English, Filipino maid, ESF kinder. At that time, she was able to understand what daddy said, but she replied in English (not surprise). I struggled a lot whether I should keep on communicating with her in English. Since she's a small b, she's always behind the pace of her classmates, and she trends to have better understanding in English (though relatively weak when compare with her classmates), and most of all, she needed to compete with other dragon bs for a Y1 place (no siblings priority in ESF), thus I keep on using English. Now, she's Y1 at RCHK, I need to put 200% effort to help her Chinese in order to keep her staying in pathway 2. T T
Conclusion: I agreed someone above said: "think about if you should insist that you speak only English with your child at home". To give up Chinese is easy, to pick up Chinese again is "sometimes" painful (it really depends on the kid).
I just share my case, no intension of offence. |
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