Your kids will naturally pick up the language spoken at home. They’ll probably pick up english too pretty easily if you live in a metropolitan city or any western country.
Now say you want your kids to learn some other languages, say arabic for example, to the point where theyre fluent in conversation etc in those languages. How would you realistically approach this situation? Would sending them to language school really make them learn anything?
Sincerely,
Captain Lota
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Most kids can't even speak the langaguage spoken at home, even if their parents are FOB most kids only learn English, and that is sooo wrong, say tomoroow we're to get deported from this country those kid's wouldn't beable to speak.
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Mr Babu. That is only in the case when the parents dont bother to converse with their kids in their own language. Infact they feel pride in the fact that their kids can speak english and choose to talk to their kids in english instead. And for some reason derive pride and pleasure when they see other people look at their kids speaking english.
But please Mr Babu lets not go there, thats been discussed here plenty times. Instead, lets stick to the thread please. Thankyou.
Sincerely,
Captain Lota
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There are some nurseries in the Uk that teach kids languages like Japanese
it appears that these are pretty difficult languages to learn and a easier to pick up whilst young...
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You could send them to an Islamic school where they are taught in Urdu. One of my friends and her siblings are fluent in Arabic because every weekend they would go to an Islamic school where most of the other children were Arab (and you know how Arabs are good about perserving their language and they speak Arabic whenever they see each other). The language children speak also depends a lot on the language their friends speak.
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The earlier they start learning and using the language the more it will stick. Also practice makes perfect.
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I've been told once by parents whose children speak up to three-four different languages (!!!) that children who speak two or more different languages learn easier and faster.
The younger you start, the better it is. You can make rules like only talk Urdu at home and talk the other language outside. Or if your children are older try to talk only in Urdu because they will learn the other language all day long at school.
There are also people that talk one language a whole day and the other language the next day. One day a language.
Or one parent talks in one language and the other in a different language.
It seems children are capable of distinguishing the different languages even at a very young age. They miraculously don't get confused and learn very easily.
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Our Nanny speaks french to Jr. We will probably have hi learn mandarin, now combined with english and hindi. Not only will he be able to hold his own within three of the larest economies of the world by the time he enters the professional world, but he will also slay the ladies with his french. :D