Re: Teaching kids the native language..
speak your own language and ure kids will pick up.. we were surrounded by goray growing up .. but my parents didnt allow us kids to speak anything but urdu at home. we cant read it that well and writing is an issue too.. but we can speak it very well and fluently. my parents themselves spoke only urdu at home and with each other
once we kids grew up and even now.. we talk mostly english amongst ourselves and urdu with folks.. and there isnt a chance of forgetting our native tongue
my husband was born and raised in denmark and it was the same at his place.. parents would talk only and only urdu at home.. he and his sis talk in danish with each other with some urdu.. but both are very fluent in their mother tongue.
husband and i talk in mostly english but will stop doing so once we have a kid. same thing when it starts school.. even then we wont tlak in danish cuz the child will have more than enuff ways of learning danish but not any other way of learning urdu, other than from its folks.
the govt of denmark actually supports parents speaking to their kids in their native tongue and not in danish at home.. it was the same way in TO. makes sense.