Thread 214491111

Do any of you have experience teaching your children a foreign language that isn't native to your country? I was thinking of learning Mandarin and raising future children of mine by speaking it in the house.

>>214491111 (OP)
>teaching your children

>>214491111 (OP)
My kid speaks Swedish and French on toddler levels so that will continue I guess.
Which means I will need to learn French better myself..

>>214491132
come on, work with me here. I've been thinking about how I would go about it, and I was wondering if anons grew up in such a household or if they have any experience doing this.

>>214491165
Does your partner speak French? I've been watching videos and reading articles about how in some households each parent speaks a different language with the child so they can develop different language skills.

>>214491241
my parents didn't teach me or my brother their native language. I think this is due to them just being really stupid people. I wish they had put effort into trying.

Learning mandarin with your kids seems like it would be a great deal of fun and very worthwhile. I think you should do it.

>>214491241
My gf is French yep. I can speak/understand really basic French but the moment the tempo goes above "talking to a retard" I fail completely.
But I will be taking classes and she will help me as well.
And English goes without saying, kid will learn that real quick both at home and in school.

>>214491287
>Learning mandarin with your kids
I'm single atm and have never been on a date, however I'm curious about future endeavors.

>>214491377
Do you have conversations with your gf in English or Swedish?

>>214491769
>I'm single atm and have never been on a date
so this entire thread is just a lie then? lmao

>>214491924
No, it's a question about future events that might happen. I'm thinking about how I might raise a future child to develop valuable skills. I figured I'd ask this on /int/ as it's probably the board with the most amount of polyglots.

>>214492007
if I were you, start learning Chinese now and try to get a chinese wife. I'm not joking, I have a friend who travels extensively in china / japan because he loves asian girls and wants an asian wife

>>214491769
>Do you have conversations with your gf in English or Swedish?
When it's just us two it's mostly English. It's what we spoke when we met and we're both comfortable speaking it.
Around our families we try to use only the native tongues. She's better at Swedish than I am at French so she's got me there.
But with the little one it's a mix of all the above.
We're not sure yet where we are gonna actually live (right now in a shitty apartment in Kristianstad - Sweden) so teaching the kid everything seems like the best option right now.

>>214492338
>But with the little one it's a mix of all the above.
From what I've seen online, couples have the most success when one parent has a designated language where they speak with the child. Do you have trouble with getting them to differentiate which language is being spoken? Like if you as a question in English and they respond in Swedish.

>>214492443
Yeah, that did happen at first. I guess the concept kids care about when they start talking.
But he's getting better at it. If we're speaking one language, he usually does as well. And doesn't really struggle switching anymore.
But then again, kids are sponges before their teens and just absorb knowledge. I think it's more about setting rules.
>when mom and dad is speaking xx language, you speak xx language
And so on.

>>214492646
>I guess the concept kids care about when they start talking
I guess my own English is failing me now..
>"I guess the concept of language isn't something kids care about when they start talking"

Jesus..

Soros was tought Esperanto since infancy by his parents, he's technically one of the handful of Esperanto mothertongue on earth.

As a child I learned three languages which I still speak to this day. Children's brains are basically programmed to learn new languages, however, input is very important as well. Is your kid gonna learn this language then forget it over time?

All of the three languages I learned as a kid, I had a significant amount of exposure to and the one I have the weakest proficiency in as an adult I even heard daily growing up.

>>214491111 (OP)
If I ever have children I will probably speak Esperanto to them at home.

>>214492892
There's an estimated one or two thousand, out of a total Esperanto-speaking population of a few hundred thousand (maybe a few tens of thousands if you only count very high-level speakers, probably a few million if you count those with only a basic level).

If I ever have children, I will probably only speak Latin to them

>>214494215
Honestly based. Raise the first native Latin speakers in two millennia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxrkgGZ99tQ

Just make sure your kid speaks English first and foremost, the language it actually needs to succeed socially and academically. If your kid is immersing all day in Chinese, that's time taken away from immersing in English and it could lag behind the other kids. You need to balance the time and pay attention to their language level. Even if your kid is a genius in Chinese, everyone is going to think its retarded because it can't follow basic instructions and lacks common vocabulary.

>>214493138
I would ideally plan on enrolling them in classes or giving them books so they can write reports on it.