Father asking for advice about his bilingual daughter
Nov 12, 2018 19:07:53 GMT 9
Post by Edward on Nov 12, 2018 19:07:53 GMT 9
I remember watching that video last year, her part about code-switching reminded me of our current situation. My child makes mixed sentences with me and her mommy, but she never makes mixed sentences with her grandparents (who are monolingual Turkish speakers). This confirms what this woman is presenting. Our children are very well aware who understands both languages...and who doesn't. Which also makes me think now, if she never figured out that I understand Turkish, she might have already tried to speak in full English sentences to me. Then again, other parts of my life wouldn't have been successful if I didn't know Turkish (work, social life with in-laws etc.).
Since I am Dutch it will be hard to travel to an English native speaking country. However, the advantage of English is that it is a language spoken worldwide, there is plenty of English in every country of the world. But yes, I would love to meet another foreign couple with children here and just let our children play with each other, so they would be forced to interact in English. Hopefully we will find a person like that one day.
Once again, thanks for the recommendations. It has been one week now, but my daughter already started to speak more and more English. My wife speaks English with her now, and also all the music/television time at home is in English. She made her first full sentences in English last weekend ('<name of our cat> scared cat', and yes, she is an easily scared cat , and 'I can see zebra' after playing with one of her toys). I also started to say to her 'In Turkish we say yeşil (for example), In English we say...', and she actually answers correctly most of the time. We will definitely continue on this path, it is just wonderful to see her grow linguistically like this. Slowly it starts to show that she knows more English than we think, she just didn't feel like using it up till now.
Since I am Dutch it will be hard to travel to an English native speaking country. However, the advantage of English is that it is a language spoken worldwide, there is plenty of English in every country of the world. But yes, I would love to meet another foreign couple with children here and just let our children play with each other, so they would be forced to interact in English. Hopefully we will find a person like that one day.
Once again, thanks for the recommendations. It has been one week now, but my daughter already started to speak more and more English. My wife speaks English with her now, and also all the music/television time at home is in English. She made her first full sentences in English last weekend ('<name of our cat> scared cat', and yes, she is an easily scared cat , and 'I can see zebra' after playing with one of her toys). I also started to say to her 'In Turkish we say yeşil (for example), In English we say...', and she actually answers correctly most of the time. We will definitely continue on this path, it is just wonderful to see her grow linguistically like this. Slowly it starts to show that she knows more English than we think, she just didn't feel like using it up till now.