teaching in native tongue
By Margo
@margomyrrh (196)
August 4, 2019 7:57pm CST
i teach my children how to count in english when they are still infants until they can memorize it and know for themselves how things work with numbers, but as they went to a local school, they had a hard time learning things specially the numbers for they have to learn it in our native dialect, so i have to re-teach them the numbers in our native tongue, well not just numbers others as well that need to be translated in the native dialect like parts of the body , the 5 senses and others.
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@rsa101 (38126)
• Philippines
5 Aug 19
I think that they are trying to adapt what Japan is using to let the children learn faster by using native tongue first and slowly introduce English as second Language. I think that may be hard at the start since for teachers will have to translate technical words to local dialect and at times you did not know it exists.
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@rsa101 (38126)
• Philippines
5 Aug 19
@margomyrrh Yes in Japan they start their students learning using their native tongue on all subjects that is why you can see from them they excel academically. The only problem with that is since they start late in English their proficiency in it is a bit poor.
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@psanasangma (7289)
• India
5 Aug 19
Same here. Many parent teach their children all vowels and numerical in English Language and when they reach grade 1 they have one regional language respective to the state. Now, children struggle to score marks as well as in writing the answers. Many of the schools are with English medium
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@margomyrrh (196)
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5 Aug 19
we some kind of use to teaching numerical in english because before, during my primary years we are taught english numerical.
@YuleimaVzla (1505)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
7 Aug 19
According to experts, the best age to learn other languages, in addition to absolutely everything they should basically learn in their first years of life lies over 3 years +, and this is because their brains are technically like sponges at this time absorbing Everything they are channeling, take advantage of these moments, perhaps many people seem forced or that we force our children because they are precisely small, but nothing is further from reality, they now enjoy the moment of learning at their own pace .
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@Hannihar (130218)
• Israel
7 Aug 19
@margomyrrh
That is very confusng. I live in Israel and kids are taught Hebrew from a young age but they could have grandparents that do not speak Hebrew so it is a problem to talk to them. Kids are taught English in school here but also a parent maybe be from an English speaking country and another parent may be from Israel so they may learn both languages.
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@Hannihar (130218)
• Israel
9 Aug 19
@margomyrrh
English is an international language and good to know for kids to learn at a young age. It is nice for kids to be able to know more languages I feel.
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@margomyrrh (196)
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9 Aug 19
@Hannihar yeah, kids today here in our country know how to speak english more than me lol
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@Loverabbit (3401)
• Karachi, Pakistan
6 Aug 19
The best case is to teach without translation. Pictograms, gestures and videos can definitely prove as effective tools. Its tough time training at first but its forever retained
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@margomyrrh (196)
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6 Aug 19
yeah, my eldest daughter learned the alphabet correctly through apps in the ipad, i don't have to teach her so hard as she learn it byherself... but it's a different story when it comes to the 2nd, i do not allow them to spend too much time in gadgets they became addicted to youtube already.
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@margomyrrh (196)
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7 Aug 19
@Loverabbit see, kids these days is kinda dependent in gadgets and if you do not make some rules about it they will be addicted to it, and it will ruined their life.
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@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
5 Aug 19
@margomyrrh never heard of it. And which language do you use for speaking in your house.
@resukill22 (25050)
• Las Pinas City, Philippines
5 Aug 19
@margomyrrh glad to know that, same
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@margomyrrh (196)
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5 Aug 19
nope, i did not mention that i am from philippines, and we do have a lot of dialects here.. But we are using numbers in english when i was in a primary school all our subject textbooks were in english except of a Filipino subject we used tagalog. There's a lot of teens who doesn't know how to count in their native dialect, so maybe they change the curriculum, all the textbooks in school now were written in native language and they are teaching the in native tongue, well except in English subject and filipino subject(tagalog language) to preserve our native language to the rising generations.
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@psanasangma (7289)
• India
5 Aug 19
@margomyrrh Same here in Northeastern part of India
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
5 Aug 19
our parents came from the province, and even though they've been here much longer than their hometown, their default language is still their dialect, not tagalog/filipino (the national language), like us children who were all born and raised here in metro manila.
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@margomyrrh (196)
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5 Aug 19
well, that is something you cannot take away from them, and that is priceless... =)
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@ihasaquestion (8274)
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6 Aug 19
Kids tend to have a good memory, so it's best to teach them from young.
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@profree2019 (1218)
• Barquisimeto, Venezuela
5 Aug 19
It is not easy friend, the best thing for this is usually to teach both languages ??at the same time. They will get used to using them in combination and will gradually place the appropriate language according to the context.
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@margomyrrh (196)
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5 Aug 19
yeah your right, i did not have much problems with my first child because we took her to a private school (private school do not teach the dialects) in her pre-school, we just transfered her to a local school on a 1stgrade and she did cope up fast with the translation of things.. i just realize that i need to change my way of teaching to the remaining youngsters so that they can easily learn and we do not have to be back to zero when they start school.
