One of the biggest problems today is that kids don't learn their mother tongue at an early age. All blame should be put on the parents/guardians. They should, from the start, communicate in Urdu with their children. English, French, German, Spanish, they will learn once they start school but Urdu they will not learn in school. Unfortunately, parents think if we give them a "head start" in English, they will excel... yeah right, goray kids eat drink English and are they excelling? lol Anyways, it's funny and sad at times when you meet Pakistani kids who grew up here not knowing even simple of words. Don't blame them.. parents not doing their job.
Well its easy said as done, we do speak mostly Urdu at home and my husband is a master in urdu/punjabi/patwaari/arabic/english but as she started nursary early, she got influenced by the kids and care takers there and learned that language earlier but doesnt mean that we will not develop her .. she is already learning english from a toy we bought her and her urdu is improving. Soon she is going to pakistan with us for 4 weeks and hopefully she will learn a lot there Insahallah, as will have lots of cousins around to speak to.