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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Curval on August 22, 2002, 02:02:05 PM
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The mixed race thread reminded me of this.
Last night my wife, who is Vietnamese, said something to my son who is a year and a half in her native tongue. She rattled it off really fast, and he started to cry. I looked at her with a puzzeled expression and she told me that she said to him that he is not allowed on the bed. (He has been standing up on the bed and dancing about and has almost fallen off on numerous occassions.) So, without looking at him, or pointing, I remarked on how his thumb-nail was really getting to be black - his brother slammed it in our sliding glass doors a few weeks ago. I said that in English, obviously, and I immediately noticed that he looked down at his thumb and he then presented his thumb to me for inspection.
He is already billingual! Freaking amazing to me because I have never been able to learn another language...and not through a lack of effort.
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Hey Curval, cute kid :) Read somewhere that its been said that kids learn languages very quickly compared to adults.
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I recall reading somewhere that kids that are bilingual at an early age often have trouble learning to read and write in school. Something about the differences in sentence structures causing a conflict in their reading comprehension. Maybe it was all just a bunch of hooey.
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Didn't you know that asians are smarter than caucasians? He must have his mother smarts ;)
Anyway, I see your bilingual and raise you chin-ups.
He is 10 months old and wants that apple. I feed him, honest...
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He does get confused sometimes...
Where are pictures of yours, btw?
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From what I've read and seen (the kids of a friend of mine are a good proof of this), the best way to teach a child two different languages without him/her mixing them up is to have each parent talk to him/her always in the same, distinct language.
This friend of mine is Spanish, but his mother is german. His wife is spanish as well, and they have been living for 3 years now in French Guiana.
So he talks to their children in german, she does in catalan (I won't go much into it, but it's a language spoken in northeast Spain, and some parts of southern France and a region of Italy), they speak with their friends in french and they learn english at school.
The elder son is now 10, and he is proficient in catalan, german, and french, and he's picking up english very fast.
Gloria and I plan to do the same when we have our own children, but we haven't decided yet which will be the second language we'll be teaching them, english or french.
The learning capabilities of a young mind are truly amazing. :eek:
Daniel, aka Cyrano
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Pic is in that racism thread actually..lol
Here is one I have posted before though...just for you man;)
I'll have to "call" you on that chin up thing:D
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Just in case you might follow American Football Curval, Dat Nguyen just signed a 6 yr. deal with the Dallas Cowboys. He's a pretty good linebacker.
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Oh... they're cute now alright... Give it 15 years and you'll be counting the years until they get the hell outta your house. :D
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Originally posted by senna
Hey Curval, cute kid :) Read somewhere that its been said that kids learn languages very quickly compared to adults.
Absolutely true statement. :)
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Curval: Here is one I have posted before though...just for you man;)
Note to self - shop in Vietnam for prospective daughter-in-law.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Just in case you might follow American Football Curval, Dat Nguyen just signed a 6 yr. deal with the Dallas Cowboys. He's a pretty good linebacker.
Not a big football fan...but I wonder if there are any Vietnamese that don't have Nguyen as their last name.;)
Seems weird that a Vietnamese guy would be playing football..most are so short and skinny....ooops was that a racist remark? Well, it's a stereotype...but one that is fairly accurate. I'll bet he grew up in the US...my wife and her 5 siblings who were born in Vietnam, are all tiny. Their sister that was born in a refugee camp, but who was brought up in Canada towers over all of them. Must be the food they eat over there.
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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
Oh... they're cute now alright... Give it 15 years and you'll be counting the years until they get the hell outta your house. :D
My youngest - 14
Will probably kill me before she hits 18.
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Originally posted by the great Spaniard CyranoAH
Gloria and I plan to do the same when we have our own children, but we haven't decided yet which will be the second language we'll be teaching them, english or french.
Is there a French online air combat flight simulation?
Question answered.
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Originally posted by Curval
my wife and her 5 siblings who were born in Vietnam, are all tiny. Their sister that was born in a refugee camp, but who was brought up in Canada towers over all of them. Must be the food they eat over there.
Actually, yes it is. There was a sociological study conducted amongst Japanese living in the US after WW2 looking at body weight and physical height. For the most part, the Japanese adults born and raised in Japan were shorter and slighter, whereas their kids, born and raised in the US, or brought over at an early age, tended to have builds closer to the average of the US population. The study concluded that dietary intake and lifestyle contributed heavily to the increased size of person of Japanese descent.
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Originally posted by gofaster
Is there a French online air combat flight simulation?
Question answered.
LOL in the eyes of Gloria, that would be supporting the french option, since she hates that I fly (in real life).
She made me promise that I wouldn't get our sons to fly until they were old enough... she's afraid they may like it too much! :D
I hope she forgets... or/and forgives :D
Daniel, aka Cyrano
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Miko lemme guess, he wants to be a proctologist when he grows up?
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Whoa dude... I can set you up with some nice Cambodian girls :D
Originally posted by miko2d
Curval: Here is one I have posted before though...just for you man;)
Note to self - shop in Vietnam for prospective daughter-in-law.
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Hmmm I've seen studies that showed bilingual kids (as in mixed-marriage) learn to read and write faster, AND also pick up other languages a lot faster.
My wife is Cambodian, and a lot of Cambodian kids I know tower over their parents over here too. Its pretty much the diet, things like cheese, milk, chocolate, a lot more beef make them grow bigger. The typical asian diet (esp Cambodia) consists of a lot of veges and rice, with stuff all meat.
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Originally posted by gofaster
Actually, yes it is. There was a sociological study conducted amongst Japanese living in the US after WW2 looking at body weight and physical height. For the most part, the Japanese adults born and raised in Japan were shorter and slighter, whereas their kids, born and raised in the US, or brought over at an early age, tended to have builds closer to the average of the US population. The study concluded that dietary intake and lifestyle contributed heavily to the increased size of person of Japanese descent.
It seems that the kids in Japan are also taller than their parents/grandparents were at the same ages. Seems it is the increased calcium intake of the increased milk in their diet compared to their parents/grandparents. I was visiting Japan last year and the kids seemed about near the same height as American kids for the same age groups.
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Again beautiful kiddies curval
mixed kids always are beautiful :)
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"Love see no colour"
Karaya2
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...errr Vulcan, sign me up for one of theose Cambodian date, please :D
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I used to substitute in Several elementary school ESL (English as a Second Language) classes many years ago. Typical classes in Colorado might have: 1 Russian, 1 German, 1 Korean, 1 Indian and 8 Spanish speaking students. I would work in these classrooms once or twice a month. One thing that I noticed at the end of the school year was that the non Spanish speaking students learned Spanish, sometimes even faster/better than English, by the end of the school year.
All of their friends/classmates spoke Spanish, and comunicated mostly in Spanish. Talking with their friends was more important to them than learning English, so they had a real motive to learn it, and did!
eskimo