Before that, it's not that I don't want to enlighten my baby in English. After all, I had a hard time learning English that year, and I envied those students whose spoken English was so good that they exploded. Therefore, I really want my baby to be exposed to English from an early age on the premise of learning his mother tongue well, but my choice was almost killed in the cradle before it started.
My first choice is to let my baby watch English original animation, and I have searched some English animation recommendations on the Internet, but for a 2-year-old baby, the general animation is still difficult to understand. Just looking at simple colors, I watched countless animations, balls of various colors, cars, and all the fruits he was interested in. I didn't learn any animation effect after watching it for a long time, which made me deeply frustrated. A little more in-depth animation of daily conversation will make the baby who likes watching cartoons want to stop. So the idea of English animation teaching is halved.
Later, I thought, after all, I am also a level 6 person, so I can't waste time with my baby. You can talk to him in English and others in Chinese in your daily life, killing two birds with one stone!
The idea is beautiful, but it is unimaginable difficult to implement. I am a good baby under the background of typical exam-oriented education. I don't have a big problem with my problem solving and listening, but I can't say a complete sentence with my mouth open, let alone dealing with an unrestrained baby. I never thought my English was good. Less than ten years after graduation, I returned everything I learned to my teacher. I don't know if there is anyone like me, so the idea was stopped before it was implemented.
In this way, day after day, I also put the English enlightenment behind me, until my baby accidentally hummed the English names of four or five small animals after listening to the original English teaching sounds of small animals brushed by Tik Tok several times, and I was directly stunned on the spot.
This immediately revived my beautiful idea of English enlightenment and began to teach him some English names of animals and fruits. I didn't expect the clever baby to remember them quickly, and the pronunciation was more accurate. After that, I also showed off my baby's English in front of many outsiders. I thought my children were smart and powerful, but I gradually relaxed English teaching. Finally, after a month, when he was still in the same place, I began to realize the seriousness of the problem and felt that my thoughts were too optimistic to play the role of a qualified mother.
Now I'm learning English again. I learn some simple sentences every day. Over time, I will become more and more skilled, at least simple daily communication can be achieved slowly. Of course, now that the network is so developed, whether it is an APP dedicated to learning English or a variety of English teaching videos, you can easily learn for free.
About three years old should be the outbreak of children's language. I hope my baby can learn this language, which is almost universally used in most countries, while learning his mother tongue well. After all, a child's future is infinite. We can't just let him get ideas in our time, but look to the world to look forward to his future.
Another point is that my father and I have discussed before, and we are worried that our children will not learn well because of our own inaccurate pronunciation in all aspects. I don't think there is any need to worry about this at all. Just like our parents who have spoken dialects all their lives, we grew up in this environment, but we also learned Mandarin easily. Therefore, we should believe in the child's own ability to correct mistakes. When he comes into contact with a more accurate accent, he will naturally correct it. Therefore, it is still necessary to boldly tell children that they will make great progress as long as they have the courage to speak.
Before going to school, the education given by parents is the most important, so I think English enlightenment should be sooner rather than later. Anyway, you have to learn sooner or later. Now I just want them to have a simple understanding of a language in advance, just like mastering their mother tongue, instead of making them start very hard like fables from the beginning.
It would be much easier if you happen to have such conditions and can speak several foreign languages yourself. If you are not proficient like me, it is also effective to spend some time learning a few simple sentences every day and then repeat them to your children.
A few days ago, my baby fell in love with the little ballad of twinkling stars, so I listened to the English version for him several times, and I stumbled and sang it myself without teaching. The baby's learning ability and imitation ability are really stronger than we thought. Add a little teaching content in the process of playing, and you will gain more than you expected.