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language thing is completely untrue.

i am the exception.

my daughter is 4 and i refuse to let her watch all the cartoons that try to mix up languages to try and subliminally teach her spanish, in fact i hate the idea of her learning to speak spanish. i think she needs to focus on getting english down pat. I'm sorry but Dora will not teach my daughter that America is a spanish speaking country. When she is old enough by all means i will support any language she decides to learn. until that point i hate the idea of her cartoons trying to jam that garbage into her brain.
 
funvtec said:
language thing is completely untrue.

i am the exception.

my daughter is 4 and i refuse to let her watch all the cartoons that try to mix up languages to try and subliminally teach her spanish, in fact i hate the idea of her learning to speak spanish. i think she needs to focus on getting english down pat. I'm sorry but Dora will not teach my daughter that America is a spanish speaking country. When she is old enough by all means i will support any language she decides to learn. until that point i hate the idea of her cartoons trying to jam that garbage into her brain.
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A fool would not encourage a child to lean spanish. How will she comunicate with her boss? How will she order her food? How will she tell Juan or Jose she loves him? Just kidding but we are a bilingual country now and spanish is the other language. Sucks don't it? But seriously your kids will need the second language to maximize their future opportunitys like it or not.
 
i agree with you, however i would like her to be old enough to choose a language that she wants to learn as a second language. I dont like the idea of a cartoon tricking her into learning another language when she has no idea whats really going on. I am an american and we speak english in my house. I look at it like if you want to be an american you should learn to speak the language we speak here. Why should we have to adjust for anyone else being in the country i was born in. i want her to learn the vast language of english before she gets confused on what "yes" really is. " Daddy do I say si or do i say yes?
 
It is a proven fact that children have an easier time learning language.
The earlier you start them, the easier they can learn them.

"Pushing Spanish" started happening in the 70's with the Childrens Television Workshop including Spanish. The idea was as stated above. I do not know if there was grass roots movement at the time. Certainly, if we all knew as many languages as your basic Euopean, we might be alble to talk to our neighbors ;)

Are we a Bi-Lingual society?

No more than we were before.
We have had Germans, Irish, Spanish, Russians of all flavors...
All learned to speak english, though in their communitys they spoke their respective languages.

I like to hear that a Parent is paying attention to what their children watch.
It gives me hope for the future.

Ron
 
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My daughter is obsessed with Dora. She's 3.5. I'm getting tired of it. Its irritating and I agree that this is America and our language is English. I want her to choose a language, but then again I also envy those dang Europeans who speak 4 languages and I know its easier for her to learn now then later. So, I'm torn. I laugh at her horrible mispronounciation of the spanish words, and I talk to her only in English (partly because I don't know Spanish).
 
Ron and that is one of the things i'm torn on. I am fully aware that the younger a child is the easier a time they have picking things up. I want just like any other parent, to give their children every advantage they can get. I guess its just how i was brought up. I do my best to support her in every way i can but it seems like society isn't giving them a choice to learn spanish. I wish cartoons and sesame Street would focus on getting English taught the same way they are teaching spanish. I can't watch half the cartoons nowadays without having them just be completely mindless or teaching a language other than english. English is our primary language here and what better time to teach it then when they are young. She speaks english well but it deffinatally could be better and i think that if there was more of a focus on English she would pick it up much faster. English is a very difficult language to master and these kids need all the help they can get. If Society thinks its ok to focus on teaching very young kids other languages why not teach them about nouns and verbs ect... in english
 
Man, just look around the Forum and tell me our school system did an awsome job teaching just English ;)

You could do what some parents did, and still do, throw out the TV. Society doesn't make television programing; they make what sells.
What kind of programing keeps a 4yr olds attention glued to anything. Certainly not something as interesting as conjunctions. If it sells more "Juicy Juice" it doesn't matter.

Anyway, once your child gets among her peers in Public School, they will teach her more language corruption than she will ever pick up on TV.

Really, I wouldn't worry about it. There is more to being an American than Dora the Explorer can ever teach her ;)

I must be tired, I lost track of where I was at...

Ron
 
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Spent a little time reading....someone enlighten me, is that site just a gag? or the most racist (and inaccurate) bullshit I have seen in quite a while?


Funvtec....

Why chose one language....teach her everything you can. And start yesterday!
 
Learning another language or two or three will not confuse a child, in fact it will help develop their lexicon and linguistic skills faster than their unilingual counterparts. There is nothing to be lost by her learning Spanish, it will enhance her ability to speak English as well, and she will definitely never make a mistake about which words she's speaking in her family. She's a child, not an idiot...
 
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ey rookie here! We try bary har to Engrish in Japan!! :helpme:
 
Beej said:
Learning another language or two or three will not confuse a child, in fact it will help develop their lexicon and linguistic skills faster than their unilingual counterparts. There is nothing to be lost by her learning Spanish, it will enhance her ability to speak English as well, and she will definitely never make a mistake about which words she's speaking in her family. She's a child, not an idiot...
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Some people have more trouble with language than others, some pick it up fast. I've noticed people with an ear for music seem to pick it up quicker, at least the spoken part.
They also say people who learn an instrument, use other parts of the brain and make new connections that improve all around learning skills.
Languages always came hard for me, except Spanish which I learned young.
All of my kids are multi lingual, one has four languages.
The reality is the world is becoming a smaller place and English may not be the universal language it once was. Besides English being one of the more difficult languages to learn, Americans may just have to put out at least an equal effort to learn the language of there trading/business partners or be left behind in the world market.
Proper English is a myth (American isn't English), the grammar may be set and follow established rules, but both languages are dynamic and constantly evolving.
Picking up a second language may just be a part of the process. People tend to forget the object is communication and that tends to be bi or multi directional.
No matter how xenophobic your tendencies, in all likelihood you are eventually going to have to communicate with somebody that doesn't have your American language skills, whether you want to or not.
 
I think the title should be changed to what do Democrats like :soapbox:
 
ScottyDog said:
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ey rookie here! We try bary har to Engrish in Japan!! :helpme:
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That is just effin hilarious.
 
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