I am having a language problem to raise my children...I am from Japan and my husband is an Arab. We live in Arab region and raising our children in Arabic but my Arabic is still poor. With my husband, i talk in English at home.
People say that I should talk to my children in my mother tongue and i think so, too.
But, it was more difficult than i had expected.
When my first baby was born, i didn't know how to talk to a baby in any language, so I copied what my mother-in-law did. That was how i started to talk to her in Arabic.
I don't have a Japanese friend or family here to have a Japanese conversation so that my children might have caught some basic essence.
Now, my 4year-old daughter already talks better Arabic than I do. I need to talk with her more.
I still keep trying to speak Japanese but it seems nobody understands how it is difficult.
People still keep asking why i don't talk to them in Japanese and it's depressing me..
Would you understand what I mean..?
2006-09-02
12:28:57
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