My latest post on Mom's diaries is here. I tried to edit and paste but there's something awry with the formatting, so just posting the link for now.
In our case, multilingual is actually trilingual :) But I think the same rules hold. I learnt a lot from my Brazilian friend in the US. She was a naturalized American and her kids spoke Brazilian Portugese, French, Spanish and English!
Same with us an additonal language kannada so makes it quadra lingual. Kids are fast in picking up languages and even the speech therapists suggest speaking in languages more then one.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm jealous of u guys :)
DeleteSounds interesting!
ReplyDeleteGoing over to read the article in a bit. :)
Great what you've done Aparna. I personally find ourselves in a big language mess at home, more so since our family is multi-lingual. Kids have no idea of father's language, and can only understand Hindi and Gujarati, don't speak it. And increasingly speak Dutch with each other at home. We are not proficient as a family in any single language :(
ReplyDeleteOh well...multiple Indian languages +European country is bound to lead to such confusion :)
DeleteOh..am hoping R will pick up some Hindi too along with Kannada..:-)
ReplyDeleteKannada - is that happening Uma? Who speaks kannada there? I thought Bangalore has become too cosmopolitan!
Deleteoh..I'm hoping it will happen when he joins big school. They have compulsory spoken Kannada for a few years..
DeleteOh that's really good...All school have this??....then I should move to bangalore for sure!
DeleteHi it's not only multilingual which is catching up. But also the multiple intelligence that is catching up,and only few schools are able to handle this concept. I know of one Little Einteins Preschools Bangalore in various places which applies this concept from the start.
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