I have heard of primary schools that only speak in a language such as german, spanish, french...they are here in the US. Then you are supposed to send your kid there because at that age they are supposed to be able to learn other languages quicker. Well, what about english? The society here is english, so how do they get their book work in english? Even if you speak english, you still have a lot of bookwork to learn on it as a child. Not just your at home life with english, but you need to have classes on it. The reasoning is that they speak the other language at school and english at home. To me it makes no sense because there are proper english rules to learn. Regular people who did have english classes their whole lives still do not follow proper rules on english all of the time. So if the kids only learn the other language at school, then don't their skills in english suffer??
2006-11-15 18:05:06 · 6 answers · asked by AveGirl 5 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Their English skills won't suffer. Remember that they will also be watching and listening to English on TV and radio, read english magazine, comics etc. They will also be using english in their everyday life and in this environment, all the "rules" you mentioned are picked up without them knowing. And even if they get behind in their english, they will catch up later on in life. But if they are not fluent in the other language now, it will be harder (than english) for them to pick up
Ask yourself - before YOU went to school, you spoke english and used all the rules without having to sit down and learn those rules, did you not? You know when to use "he" and "she" and "it" and when to use "am" "are" "won't" instead of "will not" , didn't you? I think you get my point.
2006-11-15 18:26:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No offense meant...for you to be able to bring up such a topic, even some of your own spelling and grammar are incorrect.
First of all, colloquial slang english is somehow different from the dogma taught in school. We speak differently from how we write. So I only partially agree that the english language learned from home ALONE could enhance your skills in the english. Your manner of asking this question can prove this.
Second, learning an additional language does not lessen your knowledge from what you have learned. It, in fact, gives you an edge in honing your communication skills. Not only that, learning these languages while you are young, would make it second nature when you become an adult, thus making you more learned and competitive. I consider this a good learning strategy.
Lastly, FYI... I am not even American and I don't reside in the U.S. English is my 2nd language and I learned most of it in school.
2006-11-15 18:23:24 · answer #2 · answered by StrongFaith 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know a old man, his father was worked an Ambassy and his family traveled around the world.
. He understand many languages and today he is a man very educated. He can read, speek and write a differents idioms.
. I'm learning English but I don't understand why the people of English language don't want learn others languages.
. If you have this oportunity, do not lost it.
2006-11-16 02:24:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No necessarily, I was able to start learning English at a small age and I Can speak it in a good proper way, although french is my main language
2006-11-15 18:15:31 · answer #4 · answered by KingDupless 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely! We are the sector's moment greatest English speakme nation, (after India if you'll think it!) It is the global language of industrial and enterprise. I don't care the least bit if immigrants opt for to talk their local tongue at residence or in public, however they want fundamental (if now not accented) English comprehension to perform their public and paintings existence. Keep your tradition and your local tongue, (possibly you'll even train it to me), however use English to your banking, therapy, courtroom court cases, and so forth. I have traveled to 3 non English speakme nations, simplest as a guest, and I labored as rough as I might to be well mannered and decide upon up the language as speedy as feasible.
2016-09-01 13:22:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can ask anyone and they'll tell you that English is the hardest language to learn. That's the reason we have to study it all of those years that we go to school.
I'm from the old school...I believe that "while in Rome, do as the Romans do..." if they wanna be here, then let them learn English!
2006-11-15 23:43:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋