1. With the popularization of Putonghua, fewer and fewer children speak dialects;
2. Dialect has strong regional characteristics and is a living fossil of traditional culture;
Finally, I hope my answer is helpful to you. Thank you.
I think children should teach dialects. Dialect is the inheritance of hometown culture. The elders just asked us to teach their dialects from an early age. It is more intimate to speak hometown dialect at home, and it is more appropriate to speak ordinary dialect outside.
Yes, most families now choose to speak Mandarin with their babies from an early age. So is our family. Now my little grandson is a little over two years old and has been speaking Mandarin with him. Why? There are several reasons:
1) First of all, children are the key moment to learn a language and form oral English, so learning Mandarin should start with children. When the baby goes to kindergarten or a little earlier, the teacher will speak Mandarin: roll call, play, class …
2) If you speak dialect with him at home and Mandarin at school, isn't the language too complicated for such a young child? That's when you learn to speak. You were confused by Mandarin and dialects for a while.
3) Most importantly, Mandarin is the official language. It is the standard language of education in China, and it is a bridge for dialect communication in different places. Anyway, you have to learn sooner or later, so you might as well say it directly from the beginning.
In fact, our family once discussed whether my little grandson speaks Mandarin or dialect. In my opinion, the child is too young. If you speak dialect now and don't understand the roll call or the teacher's speech at school, you will lose at the starting line. Dialect, you can speak it at home when you grow up. The whole family speaks dialects. With this language atmosphere, are you afraid that you can't speak dialects? Just like some Chinese abroad, their children can speak Chinese at home, but when they go abroad, they speak the language of their country of residence.
When I was a child, the language was too complicated, which was very unfavorable for children to learn to speak. I have a classmate who lives in Guangdong. His wife is from other places and he is ours. Once I went to his house to play, his son looked about 3 years old and was very sensible. Pass me the shoes as soon as you enter the door. I talk to him, but he keeps looking at me and doesn't talk. Later, I chatted with his parents and realized that he could not speak. The doctor said that he was normal in all aspects, but the language in his environment was too complicated. My classmates and my husband and wife both went to work. Since their birth, grandma and grandma have taken turns to take care of them. The two old people are old again and have been speaking their own dialects. My parents also speak Mandarin, and the local dialect is Cantonese. The poor child is too young to know who to learn from. Fortunately, the doctor said that he would get better with age.
Dialect is like a wall. If others can't get in, you can't get out. However, dialects also have their brilliance. I think some words in dialect are more delicate and accurate than Mandarin. For example, if you feel uncomfortable in that part of your body, you will describe it quite accurately in dialect, but you can only translate it roughly in Mandarin. Personally, I think dialect is a supplement to Putonghua.
As one of the working languages of the United Nations, Mandarin has become an important bridge for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries and the first choice for foreigners to learn Chinese. In 2000, People's Republic of China (PRC) General Language Law established the legal status of Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters as the national common language.
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Why don't many families teach their children dialects now? Hello, I'm Xiao Bei, and I'm glad to answer your question. The following is my answer, hoping to help you.
When I was in Tianjin last year, someone asked: Why don't you teach your children to speak Mandarin?
I said he would learn Mandarin sooner or later, but he never learned his hometown dialect when he was a child, and he often didn't have a chance to learn it when he grew up.
Many people think that Mandarin is widely used, especially in big cities, and it is normal to teach children Mandarin naturally because there is no context to speak their mother tongue dialect.
However, if you are a local in a small county, adults all speak the local dialect. Children are not advised to teach only Mandarin, but also learn their mother tongue dialect. This is a continuation of the hometown culture, which will give children a sense of belonging and identity and a deeper attachment to their hometown.
It's kind of like leaving a root for the child. Years later, no matter where he is, he will feel cordial when he hears the words of his hometown. Just like now, when I hear my hometown dialect, I feel really good, but I don't have Mandarin.
I am in a small county, and I have basically no Mandarin speaking context. Even the teacher is not fluent in Mandarin, and my child has always been a mother tongue. I have met some adults who can't speak their own Mandarin, and I also teach children to speak Mandarin. It's really embarrassing and uncomfortable, and it's not in tune with the surrounding environment.
It's really not necessary. When the children are older, have the opportunity to get in touch with the outside world, or go far away, they will naturally speak Mandarin, and no extra foreign teachers are needed.
The main function of language is communication. Popularizing Putonghua improves the convenience of communication and promotes social development, which generally meets the requirements of social progress. Therefore, more and more parents communicate with their children in Mandarin.
Dialect, as a historical existence, carries our sense of identity and belonging to our own identity and has strong emotional significance. From a cultural point of view, dialects also retain many elements related to local culture, which helps us to understand the local history.
However, the disadvantages brought by dialect are also obvious, the most obvious is the increase of communication cost. Since Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, the country has been committed to promoting a unified language. The so-called Mandarin is the lingua franca of the past. Only at that time, due to the low level of social development, there was no need for large-scale popularization, and there was no ability to promote it on a large scale.
Looking around the world, there used to be thousands of languages, but now there are no fewer than hundreds in use, and many languages are disappearing. It can be predicted that there will be fewer and fewer languages in the future.
It is not so much that people no longer attach importance to dialects as it is a natural choice for people to conform to the trend of the times.
With the development of Internet and TV, Mandarin is gradually popularized, and children are more influenced by Mandarin on Internet and TV than by dialect language environment in their families. For children, which language is more influential, dialect or Mandarin, and which language they are used to learning. After all, language learning depends on the language environment.
Unlike the older generation, when I was a child, the activity area was limited by inconvenient transportation, and the language exchange was all local or small-scale people, which was greatly influenced by local language habits and customs. They all communicate in the local dialect. Influenced by the surrounding language environment, children have been local dialects since they learned to speak.
Now, most young people leave their hometown for a new city. Dialect communication is difficult, and speaking Mandarin is even more important. For example, I didn't begin to practice speaking Mandarin until I went to college. Before high school, in this city, most people around used dialects to communicate, so there was no concept of deliberately speaking Mandarin.
After I had a child, the child learned to speak and sent it to kindergarten. Teachers in the garden play games in Mandarin, so children never speak in dialects when they come home from school, and only speak in dialects when they talk to grandparents. Our parents have not deliberately taught their children to speak dialects, because dialects have no practical application value for children. However, as a local culture, dialect is understandable to children.
I can answer this question and correct your understanding.
(1) Society is making continuous progress. With the deepening of communication, the world will become more and more flat and people's languages will become more and more similar, which is an inevitable trend brought about by development.
(2) When you try to have a better development and go out of your hometown, you will find that everything that is convenient and practical will become more and more popular, and things that are inconvenient and troublesome will gradually be forgotten. Dialect is just a bit troublesome, because it is inconvenient to communicate with other dialects.
(3) The development of the world is this law, and it must be more advanced, more scientific and more convenient, not more conservative. This is why Qin Shihuang unified measurement, Oracle Bone Inscriptions developed into the standard Chinese characters now, why we gave up wearing mandarin jackets, left long braids, and so on.
(4) Dialect can only exist as a cultural symbol or phenomenon and eventually become history.
First of all, Putonghua, in a big way,
1. It can strengthen the communication between countries.
2. It is conducive to safeguarding national unity and unity.
3. It is conducive to promoting social civilization and progress.
Second, learning Mandarin is conducive to better communication with people. Mandarin is the common language in China, which solves the problem of estrangement caused by different languages in different regions. Mandarin is the symbol of our nation. Learning Mandarin is conducive to enhancing our national pride, jointly safeguarding the unity of the country and society, and enhancing national self-confidence.