Daddy D
Alpha Male
My side hardly speak dialect liao... brainwashed by our "Speak Mandarin/English" campaigns....
Mandarin Speaking
- Thread starter lisa_ng
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then your wife's side lor... heee...
autumn82
Well-Known Member
When Belle says that, I'll just say :err::err:your 1, 2 or 3? :tlaugh::tlaugh:
Eloise Chen
New Member
Hello, everyone. I'm new here, 1st post.:shyxxx:
My boy only 8 months old now. My hubby and I speak mandarin or english to him, but my parent in-law sometime will speak dialet to him. Like tat will made him confused???
My boy only 8 months old now. My hubby and I speak mandarin or english to him, but my parent in-law sometime will speak dialet to him. Like tat will made him confused???
joeichen
Member
Funny thing is tat the grandparents speak to him in mandarin.
I different dialet so scare teach wrongly oso.
The aunties n uncles all speak to him in mandarin oso.
joeichen
Member
Actually, thr is a research shown tat children below 6 or 7 r very smart. They can learn up to 7 languages without getting confuse.
My mum told me tat oso, she say when we young we can speak to them in mandarin or english then once turn to grandma we can immediately change to dialet without any pro.
Din know we r so gd.... :red:
Ottermum
Member
yeah yeah i totally agree!!!
last time i could speak dialect to my grandparents too...
but my spoken English was sooooo bad! STILL REMEMBER 1st day Pri 1 i didn't know a SINGLE WORD of English too...Pri 1 leh...7 yrs old still dunno...there's only 1 boy who understood English n whenever he said 'yes' everyone followed....hahahaaaa...~~yesterday~~....
Not really. Exposing your child to different languages when he's young enables him to pick these up easily. When i was young, my family spoke English and Teochew to me, my nanny and her family spoke Chinese and Hokkien. I dun think i was confused la. I'm proficient in both English and Chinese compared to my brother who is proficient only in English coz he was not fostered out and wasn't exposed to Chinese.
Maybe they're afraid that you or your hubby dun like them to learn dialect? Different dialect also can teach la... my hubby's hokkien and i'm teochew. i think it's ok to learn both coz i did that when i was young!
I am also having one kid... Then can concentrate plus no jealousy between kids.
I speak mixture of language with bb. :tlaugh:Sometimes speak "bb language" too. When bb start screaming non stop I started the same whining sound together then bb will look at me like I am nut. :001_302:
I speak mixture of language with bb. :tlaugh:Sometimes speak "bb language" too. When bb start screaming non stop I started the same whining sound together then bb will look at me like I am nut. :001_302:
happymummyo7
Member
ahahaha. so im not the only one. both my parents are not english educated. and in kindergarden teacher teach in mandarin too. i learnt my eng since pri1 onwards. got b3 for o's. already consider very good to me cause i only use english in school.. with friends, singlish....
i guess children pick up languages quite fast. so expose them to as many different language as possible. i can understand hokkien, teochew and cantonese. cause my parents speak hokkien to each other, mum speaks teochew to my granny, and she also watch those hk dramas. but can only speak hokkien.. cause no chance to try speaking other dialects. haha.
happymummyo7
Member
cannot blame them la. education system not that good back then. during their days not everyone has a chance to go to school you know. even if they do, they dont put in as much effort in learning cause education not as important to them as it is to us now..
and also, they are use to their own dialect la..
i use to laugh at my papa or mama when they 'try' to speak english. cause the way the pronounce words always sounds so funny. they would always jokingly say, 'mama dont know you never teach mama then how mama learn..' then one day, it suddenly struck me. hey, its this two not educated adults who sent me to school to study leh. not for them, i will be like them, kana laugh by other people lo..