In order to make a clear contrast, I will take the South-South Hou Jian family in the Korean parent-child program Superman is Back as an example. Nan was born in a family with a harmonious family atmosphere. Her mother is Swiss, and her father is Park Zhuhao, a famous Korean football player. As mixed-race babies, they make people very curious about their language ability.
Language is the innate talent of human beings.
Some children begin to babble when they are less than one year old, and their language expression ability exceeds that of ordinary peers; But it is not clear that some children are two or three years old. As far as Nan Houjian's family is concerned, his mother is Swiss and can speak six languages, while his father is Korean and can speak three languages. The child's talent is certainly not bad.
According to the Korean algorithm, Nain can speak four languages at the age of four, which is one of the best among children of the same age. Many parents are envious and curious. How to make children happily accept language learning and learn efficiently? In fact, if we carefully observe children aged 0 to 3, we will find that they learn languages very quickly, and many complicated expressions can be learned only after listening to them a few times. Why?
Chomsky, a linguist, believes that this is because we have a set of innate grammar in our minds from birth. Just like Nunn, he can connect all languages seamlessly, with no confusion in grammar and fluent expression. Therefore, parents should pay close attention to the early language development period, but it is not recommended to force, and try to listen through the way that children like.
In the past, a documentary found that babies were able to distinguish verbal sequences from nonverbal sequences at one month, while babies were able to distinguish subtle sounds at three months-a subtle difference that adults may not be able to distinguish.
A lifelong professor of neuroscience at the University of Chicago in the United States found that the synapses of infants aged 8 months to 12 months were 1.5 times that of adults. This has sounded the alarm for parents' "early education". .......
The acquired environment also contributes.
Some people deny that they gave up learning a foreign language because their language talent is inferior to others, but everyone knows that' hard work' is also a talent. If people admit that their intelligence is inferior to others, it is equivalent to denying themselves from the root. What parents hate most is that the teacher accuses the child of being' stupid', which means that the child has no hope at all in learning. Of course, the children themselves are very disgusted with the abuse of their parents. Therefore, the criticism of children should be moderate, and more encouragement should be given when studying.
Although it is very lucky for children to speak different mother tongues, it means that children have greater opportunities and better conditions to master their mother tongues. Different mother tongues of parents are only one of the reasons for mastering two languages, and communication with children and responsible teaching are the greater motivation.
Because the most important thing to master a language is the language environment, listening and speaking more will impress you. On the contrary, if parents have different mother tongues, seldom use teaching and lack in-depth communication, children will not be able to master their mother tongues skillfully. Many accompanying mothers take their children abroad, and the children grow up slowly, leaving a good language environment, and it is not easy for parents to create a language environment for their children, so Chinese will gradually decline.
Take Nunn as an example, his acquired language learning environment is an absolute advantage. Nan can speak not only her mother's native language (German), her father's native language (Korean), but also her grandmother's native language (Spanish). Because her parents communicate in English every day, she can also speak English. Because Switzerland is a multilingual country, her mother's mother tongue is different from her grandmother's.
In daily life, parents always encourage Nunn to communicate more, which makes Nunn have the habit of talking more. Nunn communicates with his mother in German, with his father in Korean and with his grandmother in Spanish at home. This is a good language learning environment, but ordinary children are prone to language confusion, so parents should control the number of languages they communicate with their children. Parents can play some simple language games or show their children bilingual cartoons to improve their interest.
Why should children be encouraged to learn more languages?
Language is the key and regional culture is the lock on the treasure map. Different regional cultures need to be deciphered in different languages. There may or may not be treasure in it, but there must be a lock at the door. You can also break it open with a hammer, but you need a key to have that strength. Every language contains a unique world view.
Man creates language from himself, and through the same behavior, he also binds himself to language; Every language revolves around the people to which it belongs. Only when people step into the circle of another language at the same time can they get out of the original circle. So learning a foreign language may mean winning a new starting point in the world outlook so far.
Nowadays, with the intensification of employment competition, the requirements for people are more rigid. Cultivating children from an early age is not only responsible for children, but also for yourself. Because of his strong language ability, Nain can be a small translator for his father when he goes out, which not only exercises himself, but also helps his father. When communicating with foreigners, you can also make friends, expand your circle and improve your social skills. Isn't this killing two birds with one stone?
Every language has its own unique words, such as honorifics in Japanese and Korean, and the expressions of these words are very different in Chinese, as are English, French, German and other languages. For all words, Chinese can only describe what the word expresses, and there is no corresponding word. Perhaps it is precisely because of the uniqueness of words that more biochemical collisions have taken place in cultural exchanges. Language is the habitat of culture. Learning a foreign language and understanding the connotation of different cultures is also very helpful to improve one's personal realm.