好不好用全英语跟孩子说话? 南华早报引述专家学者的意见

iamfine

原帖由 awah112 於 10-8-17 09:31 發表
eviepa

有次睇報紙見到余若微同佢老公，佢老公係外國人，我相信對余若微既英文有一定影響，亦認同你既睇法。

awah112

Since when has Dr. Edmund Woo become a gweilo?

evatsoihk

我对ISF认识不深，但我想他们的中文程度应该不差（不过我只是观察低年级的中国语文课本），至于英语就算比不上其他IS，可也应该过得去吧。

不妨叫朋友放胆去尝试一下本地学校（总比留在那儿“两头不到岸”的好），我觉得应该不会像想象中那般难考进去吧，而唯一担心的反倒是孩子的适应能力。

纯粹个人想法，若不合听就当我没说过好了。

原帖由 Y2KChild 於 10-8-17 15:54 發表
我不想再評論ISF，這是我朋友的親身感受，他的孩子在ISF幾年，對ISF已失去信心，不想在ISF讀中學，可是感到兩頭不到岸，想轉去其他IS，但又恐怕在ISF所接受的英文學習未能等同其他IS之水平，轉去 local，又怕中文未入流及難於適應。他 ...

peremum

I don't understand why we have to linger on the point of "native speaker level".  Do we mean fluency, or without accent or use of words?
Share with you 2 cases.
1) A friend of mine is raised by parents who do not know English & educated in H.K.  He has the typical HK accent but his English is more fluent than a lot of British people.
2) I have a Scottish (grad from Oxford) colleague whose spoken English is practically incomprehensible but his writing is marvellous.

So, can anyone tell me what is "native" or "near native"?  As long as your kids can speak, read & write good English, why bother about the N word?