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Reverse example: I've only [1] let my child consume Swedish media (mostly the SVT app Barnkanalen, while we live in the US) and their accent is really good, and
by spraak 9y ago
Reverse example: I've only [1] let my child consume Swedish media (mostly the SVT app Barnkanalen, while we live in the US) and their accent is really good, and they often correct me and remind me of how something should be said.
[1] Not 100%. They still watch e.g. Moana in English, or sometimes watch shows in German, French, some English ones, etc.
- nickpeterson 9y agoI think it would be especially difficult with children, since the English version tends to be the 'real' version. As such I would assume songs to just be more natural in english, and that tends to be the part children obsess over. I'm from the US, so I have the same problem from the other perspective, "Why learn a language when everyone speaks English." So you get a bunch of children who don't want to become bilingual since it serves no apparent value in their lives. It doesn't help that schools basically only push Spanish, which is actively besieged by half the population. I really wish schools would push things like mandarin and german more since it's a much larger part of the world economy.
- meheleventyone 9y agoIsn’t Spanish a globally important language as well?
- icebraining 9y agoIn number of speakers it is, but parent talked about the economy, and Germany alone has a GDP of almost 70% of all the nations with Spanish as their official language combined.
- spraak 9y agoI'm not sure that I understand what you're saying, but for my child they see the Swedish version as the real version, firstly because it's the only version they've seen, and that often most of the shows are actually only available in Swedish.
- irrational 9y agoI would love it if American public schools offered a wider variety of languages (my high school in south florida offered Latin in addition to Spanish, German, French, and Italian). But my children's high school in Oregon only offers Spanish. There is 1 German teacher in the entire school district, but she is in a different high school.