In the dominant environment of Putonghua, Shanghai dialect is gradually declining as a dialect. Undoubtedly, with the rapid economic and social development in China, the decline of dialects has become an indisputable fact. Urbanization will inevitably lead to the disappearance of villages, which will inevitably lead to the abandonment of dialects. This process is inevitable. It was the discovery of the decline and decline of dialects that led to the emergence of Shanghai Pure Shanghai Early Education. What is the magic and function of dialect that deserves special teaching?

On the one hand, dialects, as a person's first mother tongue, have been in contact since birth. In the communication with parents and grandparents, we can cultivate their feelings for their mother tongue and improve their sense of belonging and identity with their own culture. A Shanghainese who can't speak Shanghainese will definitely lose his sense of belonging to Shanghai. Wang Lining, deputy director of China Language Resources Protection Research Center, once said that there are currently more than 30 languages in China, but there are about 68 languages with 10000. Nearly half of the languages in the world and China are on the verge of extinction. So on the other hand, learning dialects is not only the embodiment of feelings, but also a kind of inheritance of one's own culture.

What are the advantages of learning dialects?

1, children learn dialects, which helps to lay the foundation for learning other languages in the future.

Adults can only recognize one or two languages (dozens of sounds), and few people can recognize more than five languages, but the children's language center is very powerful and can recognize all the languages in the world (about 400 sounds).

However, when children grow up, they are usually in a monolingual environment, and finally gradually lose the ability to recognize other languages and can only respond to a single language (that is, the mother tongue). If children are in a bilingual or even multilingual environment, they can retain the ability to recognize different sounds and lay the foundation for learning other languages in the future.

2. Children who master multiple languages are smarter? When children are young, if they are often exposed to two languages, two different "circuits" will be produced in the brain to respond to the two languages respectively. This different reaction in the brain and the transition between the two "circuits" can improve children's attention, memory and reasoning ability. In a sense, children who master multiple languages will also be smarter.

In fact, there is no conflict between learning dialects and speaking Mandarin well. If children are expected to learn Mandarin well in the future, what parents should do in the language learning stage is not to stop their children from speaking dialects, but to speak Mandarin well first so that children can get correct pronunciation in their minds. In this way, children can not only learn Mandarin well, but also be baptized by local dialect culture, killing two birds with one stone, which is more beneficial to children.