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Hope you are doing great!!
Yeah I'm Bilingual! And now raising my kid to be bilingual. English is not our primary language. We use 'Bangla' as our native language in our daily life. But English is mandatory in schools from the very first level. So we have to learn English and our native language simultaneously from our childhood. Our parents have done this and it's our time.
To be honest I sometimes find it very difficult. But there is no way coz of the school system.
As a parent of a 2.4 years old son, I started to teach him alphabet and some basic words of both language. The problem is as we use our native language in daily life, he usually get confused what language or word he have to use. I know people all around the world who are bilingual or use multiple language faces this same problem.
Let me give some example!
Yesterday I was asking him "E for what''. He replied "E for Dim"! 'Dim is the meaning of Egg in our language.
Another example I can give you which is more practical and I face more problem with it. He sometimes use English words like 'Banana' or 'Duck' in daily life. People who don't have the literacy on English like our 'helping hand in our home', they don't get it what he is saying. And I have to tell him to use our native language instead. This thing makes him more confused what he should use at what point.
People also teach 'Arabic' simultaneously to their kids here because of our religious perspective. I still did not start to do that!
There is another problem I face recently. As there are two different major types of Educational System-Bangla medium and English medium. Kids who study on English medium usually speak in English in their daily life also. So when my son mix with them he got even more confused what he should talk! There are many other problem in this system. I will elaborate this another day.
But I know he will gradually understand and cope with it as we also learn this way. There is some advantage of being bilingual also. As you can see here I am on Steemit and communicating in English easily.
I hope he will pass this 'confused' stage very soon and cope himself up with two different language.
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So awesome! The hard steps now will pay off in the long run with a more versatile communicator ready for the world.
I remember my kids at 2 and a half years. Are they doing well? Can they handle this? Are they behind where they should be? It was nerve racking back then and it doesn’t need to be. Such a marathon and there is no need to focus on whether he is sprinting now.
Any difficulty is just the brain forging new paths and exercising healthily! You are doing great!!
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My household was bilingual and the best that I will say is that we were spoken to in one language, we didn't learn the phonics of it. That made it easier. You are making it more difficult on yourself by teaching two sets of phonics. That is only my experience though.
It was never an issue with the school. The first few years, I went to a French school and spoke mostly English at home. I wish you luck and hope you find a way around this.
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Totally agree with you. But as I said our school system requires two language learning, it's mandatory. Play or nursery classes have syllabus on alphabet, words ie. So if I'm planning to start schooling him in 2 years I have to teach him this.
You can say this is a defect in this system.
I now understand how our parents also struggled to make us bilingual!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. 😊
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Oh, when I reread it, I saw. I somehow missed that there would be phonics in both. Yikes. That was difficult!
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The part about confusing words between languages really resonates well with me. As someone who was raised in a household where two languages were spoken, I found myself speaking a combined language quite naturally—where I would midway sentence start speaking another language. Even now, grown up, I find that particular words come to me much quicker in a certain language. I think this quite healthy, as I believe it helps the development of the brain by making more neural connections between words, phrases, etc.
I hope your son does well with his English and Bangla, as well as Arabic, when he comes to that!