it's true that it will delay the learning process and kids' development. But IQ is inborn. It can't be changed. Your playgroup teacher has distorted the pros and cons of learning multiple languages.
but the reality is, if your kids is admitted to a school with only cantonese and english, i am quite sure that many parents will arrange their kids for outside pth class.....so does it so much matter with the teaching medium of the school?
We are in the international class of another kindergarten. My 2 kids have no problems, they can master Cantonese + PTH + Eng quite well.
(We only speak Cantonese at home)
Some kids are good with logics, some are good with languages. Perhaps it's fair to say that kids who are slower in language development should avoid learning foreign languages too early. Better not over-generalize to all kids?
Does it really matter for a kid to learn PTH at such early stage in addition to cantonese and English? I am quite confused. Why parents worry that the kids in HK can't learn PTH at a later stage? We are already in an PTH environment and when they grow up, PTH will even be more popular, and when the economy require you to speak fluent PTH, I'm sure every one will learn this spoken language easily. Unless the family is a trilingual one, I don't think it is good to make the kids so busy......
原帖由 tanglulu 於 11-3-15 12:02 發表
but the reality is, if your kids is admitted to a school with only cantonese and english, i am quite sure that many parents will arrange their kids for outside pth class.....so does it so much matter ...
wow.....what kind of playgroup teacher...i think he/she should apologise to those KCS parents!!!
if a child's mother tongue is cantonese then if follow your playgroup's teacher,we just teach the child cantonese only,then why so many people rushed to join english playgroup for babies or parents don't say any other langugages to babies!!!
the most important thing is that we need to guide/correct our kid what they learn,and also we need to monitor their learning progress!!!
Does it really matter for a kid to learn PTH at such early stage in addition to cantonese and English?
Well, I'm sure everyone agrees that adults can't learn the accents. For example many of us can't differentiate the "l" and "r" sounds. And my kids definitely say the "z" sounds much better than me.
My PTH is also horrible, or you can say my PTH is as good as many of our government officers!
Cantonese lack some of the sounds that are in PTH and English. Kids can learn them but not adults.
發表於 11-3-14 23:41
