Re: Teaching Urdu
Same here. My son started off with really good, “thaith” punjabi. I was watching his old videos when he was around 20 months or so and he goes “baba ithey aao sofa te betho please” just too good. Everyone would get a shock to see him speak like that. He would call door, a “booa” or leg “laatt” and then he stopped speaking and switched to urdu? I don’t know what happened. I still insisted on talking to him in punjabi and now he speaks both punjabi and urdu and often mixes english words with it but I correct him.
Examples:
meri book buhat nice hai would change to meri kitaab buhat achi hai so he repeats that, i usually don’t have to correct him more than once. Then few weeks ago I asked him “aajj school kesa si” he replied back in english (it was good), I asked him again, he replied back in english and I asked him again at that moment he realized what I was looking for. He said “acha tha” so i told him, you should answer in language you are spoken to. If your teacher talks to you in english, you reply back in english right? So, when someone speaking in urdu or punjabi talks to you, you reply back in that same language. He didn’t like that lecture and said “oh brother!” “theek hai baba” 