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"The Strange Reason Kids Are Failing to Grow up Bilingual" (Youtube Video) (www.youtube.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/theasiandiaspora@piefed.social
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My take away is basically:

  1. Language schools don't work... your kids will hate it...

  2. Immersion is good... like maybe move to your ancestor's country... (no thanks fam, I don't like this)

  3. Only speak your heritage language to your children... And you need to know enough to fully express yourself so you don't revert back to English (or whatever your new country's language is)

Yeah... Cantonese and Mandarin might die with me... I don't even know it enough to be teaching my (future) children... too much emotional trauma from my parents 😭

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago*

For me, it’s more the fact that I didn’t have any community to practice speaking with. And no, talking with your parents doesn’t count! Like especially for me, I grew up pretty rebellious xD Plus I barely had Asian friends growing up, much less ones who speak the same language.

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