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I view it in terms of opportunity cost. Let's say your kid has 1 hour of productive attention span per week, time of focused learning. You can either teach them
by MrVitaliy 9y ago
I view it in terms of opportunity cost. Let's say your kid has 1 hour of productive attention span per week, time of focused learning. You can either teach them your native tongue or something else, like math and science, or better English.
Kids still pick up some vocabulary from speaking to their parents/grandparents. And even if they spoke it toddler-fluently before getting into preschooler, they won't be able to read a newspaper by the time they're teenagers. Without constant immersion, kids just don't have the discipline to keep going at it. This isn't necessarily a bad thing.
- hutzlibu 9y ago"Let's say your kid has 1 hour of productive attention span per week, time of focused learning" Children don't need that special mindset to learn. They learn all the time and pick up the language on the way...
- pavel_lishin 9y agoBut not if they're not exposed to it frequently enough to practice hearing and speaking it. They can pick up bits and pieces - which is good - but even for kids, it's not easy to pick up a language without having to play with speaking or writing it, which is hard to do without reinforcement.
- marci 9y agoThere's also entertainment (music, kids shows).
- r00fus 9y ago> Let's say your kid has 1 hour of productive attention span per week, time of focused learning. That's not the way kids learn at all. They are learning everything all the time, in small amounts. That's why immersion is so important.