where less in house Urdu is spoken and where children go to schools and speak English, 99 percent of the time.
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There should be a balance between both the languages.... get tehm to learn urdu early on, then slowly start teaching English...that way they know both and will use whichever appropriate... specially while shopping.... it will be so much fun...:D
also see if you can find Urdu lessons for them and if not teach them urself how to read and write. It will certainly help them learn Urdu. My parents did that with my younger siblings and even though they came to Canada when they were 4 and 6, both speak Urdu well and can read and write to some extent
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why less Urdu at home?
Try to speak Urdu all the time when kids are home. Start teaching them Urdu when they are around 8, because at that time they have already learned English and will not get confuse if they were forced to learn Urdu and English simultaneously.
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Dushi, sadly but truely, Urdu is not even alive in the generation that is being raised in Pakistan, why to worry about abraod kids
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we must keep it alive with us. i feel so disappointed when parents speak English with their kids, all the time.
so, the problem is with parenting, too.
at home and among family and friends, young people or older adolescents and young adults in their 30s and 40s must speak in Urdu and spoeak it without any terra merre accents, on purpose, just to look like who they are not - non Urdu Speakers.
anybody who seens people, trying to speak too much English, can be shown how speaking urdu looks and feels much better, for own sake and for the sake of keeping the language alive and healthy.
Dushi, sadly but truely, Urdu is not even alive in the generation that is being raised in Pakistan, why to worry about abraod kids
I hear that bro!
I hear that bro!
yea, every time I go to pakistan, I try to speak in urdu you know trying to improve it and all, but everyone I talk to speaks to me in english. At least those in my family and in my generation. Gets kind of annoying actually.
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Aa'aY baYkasi-e-urdu pe Rona Hamdam
kis k GhaR ja'aY ga saYlab-e-Baala hamaRe bad
( with due respect to chacha Ghalib) :)