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It ends up doing kids a lot more social harm than good if their non-native speaking parents speak to them in their non-native language poorly -- you end up with
by magic_beans 9y ago
It ends up doing kids a lot more social harm than good if their non-native speaking parents speak to them in their non-native language poorly -- you end up with a child who speaks their parents non-native language badly, and who doesn't even know their mother tongue.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoUnless they're in a very cloistered community, kids are exposed to the, uh, "host language" very, very frequently. Our toddler has been in daycare since she was fairly young, and started picking up both English and Spanish words. (Her word for "water" remains "agua", in fact; she only recently switched from "abre" to "open".) (And if they're in a very cloistered community, their parents are probably more focused on the native language instead of the host language anyway.)
- sampo 9y agoIf kids play with native kids, if they go to daycare and school, they will pick up the native accent from other kids.
- fahadkhan 9y agoMy kids seem manage Shanghainese, Urdu, English (in RP, cockney and a Pakistani accent) pretty well. I was surprised to hear my son (at the time only four) say "Hiro is the hero Big Hero 6." Pronouncing both Hiro and hero correctly.