Topic: Question: Do you still teach your children Chinese (read and write) in Canada? @SF湾区华人论坛:SF湾区枫下论坛 The Rolia Forum of San Francisco

枫下沙龙 / 谈天说地 / Question: Do you still teach your children Chinese (read and write) in Canada? -tweety(RedMenace); 2001-6-1 (#87875@0)

even i don't have child now, but that's for sure! it's a must to be my son!!! -yellow(yellow); 2001-6-1 (#87876@0)
why not? -jzwang(hello); 2001-6-1 (#87877@0)
Yes, I will. -danny_chen(蛋泥); 2001-6-1 (#87878@0)

Parets' thought is good, but reality is, for kids, they have neither the initiatve nor the substantially favorable envionment for writing and reading Chinese CHARACTERS. -guest:PourColdWater; 2001-6-1 (#87888@0)
of course! -ingrid(樱桃); 2001-6-1 (#87889@0)
I am。 -rollor(Rollor); 2001-6-2 (#87909@0)
When your baby is 1 or 2 years old, do you teach him/her both Chinese and English at the same time? Would he/she get confused? Any experience? -tweety(RedMenace); 2001-6-2 (#87921@0)

send them back to china, or I'll go back with them. And will bring them back to canada after at least finishing junior high school. -yellow(yellow); 2001-6-2 (#87956@0)

Really? I think elementry school is pretty important for them. It's the foundation of his "Canadian Experience". -tweety(RedMenace); 2001-6-2 (#88176@0)
Wrong. -rollor(Rollor); 2001-6-2 (#88363@0)

From my personal experience, it takes longer for kids who are exposed to bi-lingual environment to learn to speak their first words. However, as it is said by some specialists, these kids will be smarter than others later on. -rollor(Rollor); 2001-6-2 (#88369@0)

既然都来到这里了，还在乎什么smart不smart的，有多少smart的人是快乐的？中国人的毛病就是太smart了，何必再让孩子为了smart去受这份罪。 -hearts(hearts); 2001-6-2 (#88481@0)

不是让不让的问题，这是一种现象。据说在广东，那些同时接触广东话和普通话的孩子，往往要一岁半到两岁时才开始说话，但大脑相对聪明一些。跟受不受罪没有关系。 -rollor(Rollor); 2001-6-2 (#88551@0)

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