Hey, good morning, thank you for joining me on my lovely walk this morning.
Of course I'm not actually walking, I'm on my way to the golf course.
Because, I want to... I want to record a couple of videos,
well not want to, I'm ging to record a couple of videos,
And uhm,
yeah, thank you for joining me.
Recently, throught my Google Alerts, I found, and I read this article about when you should start teaching your children the second language.
I found that very interesting as an article,
and obviously as a bilingual, actually I speak 5 laguages, natively 2,
I have a strong opinion about it.
So, I did a little search,
which means, 5 seconds of googling, and I found a couple more articles.
And today in todays video I wanted to share with you, a little bit the ideas from those articles, as well as my own.
So the first 2 articles that I found, I read 3,
they say that you cannot start early enough because kids, they pick up the language very quickly,
they...
for them it's natural.
And one of the articles, actually mentiones that: already in the stomach, of the mother,
the child start picking up the sounds that it hears around him.
Now, in total, there are, between all the language, about 800 different sounds that we make to use a language.
The standard phonemic chart of English has 47, of the top of my head, different sounds.
That includes a couple of sounds that are similar between American and British English.
Obviously, when you go into detail there are many more.
English has soms sounds that Spanish doesn't have, and Spanish has sounds that, for example Manderin doesn't have, and the other way around.
So the child, before it's born, it already starts picking up on those sounds, according to the study in this article.
So one of the other things that this article mentions,
by the way, it's based on scientific study,
the kids, very early, start specializing the sounds that they receive,
whether it be French, English, Spanish, it doesn't really matter,
but they start specializing.
So when they grow up, bilingually,
meaning, 2 different languages,
They already have that wider sound range,
it's not the language, but it's the sound range
they know how to produce, or they recognize and try to produce, mimic, the different sounds between the languages.
One of the things I always find very interesting,
is that, a lot of the articles, and very often I read,
that being bilingual actually helps against the development of Alzheimers Desease.
Now that,
if there's no reason, if you can't find another reason, to have your child learn different languages, well,
Alzheimers Desease, or, trying,
to protect them from Alzheimers Desease, I think would be a great one.
Another article that I read was, what age is the best age to start learning a language.
My opinion is based on what my own experience is,
as well as the article that I read.
By the way, I haven't said it yet, but all three articles are down below in the discription.
So I grew up bilingually, nativaly, Frisian being my first language, which I speak at home with my parents, with my family,
Dutch being the language of the country I'm from,
and therefore it's my day to day language, in my country.
When I was a teenager I started learning German fairly quickly,
and I learned it by using it so.
And I didn't really have any problems with it.
And then later on I started perfecting my English and then when I moved to Spain,
which is now a little bit more than 6 years ago,
my Spanish took a real jump in improvement as well.
What I find interesting about the second article I read, and something I have to keep in mind as a teacher as well,
If you start learning a second language rather late, or in general,
if you start learning a certain language later in life, whether you are bilingual already or not,
certain concepts that you have in your mother tongue,
or the languages you learned when you were young,
are very much fixed into our brain.
And according to the study that the second article is based on,
this means that there are more complications into learning small differences.
One of those differences I very often see with my students, is that:
they commit the mistake of saying: "He have", or "he do"
Why, because they learn a certain structure in English and they have a different structure in Spanish,
and it is difficult to actually mix those.
So, there are certain concepts, of grammar, vocabulary where they're stuck.
The last aspect wich I want to mentions, wich the article mentions as well,
is something I find very intersting. Now, in English,
we only have a neuter article, "the", "a" or "an",
and there is no different between male and feminine.
In Spanish, for example, we have "el", "el niño" and "la", "la niña".
So for native English speakers, not having that difference makes it more complicated to adapt,
to the difference between on the one side male and the other side female.
This happens in every direction.
The last aspect I want to mention, which is important in when to start learning a language,
obviously, the earlier you start, in my opinion, the better it is, because kids will pick it up.
But there is one important aspect, which is need.
Wat happens is that, if you don't need a language, you'll get rusty or you won't even learn it.
I mean,
I would love to learn Mandarin, but I don't learn it because, you know, I don't need it.
My German is very rusty because I'm not using my German at all.
Whereas my Spanish is becoming more easier by the day,
my apologies, it's becoming easier by the day, just because of the fact that I use my Spanish on a day to day bases.
Whereas my Dutch,
I have very few Dutch speaking friends here in Madrid,
is actually sometimes becoming a problem for me to speak it correctly.
When I go home to my family and friends, they actually tell me that I make horrible mistakes in Dutch.
And that has something to do with the need. So if you can create for your child,
the environment of necessity for that language, it's even better and they will pick it up a lot quicker.
An au pair is a wonderful example, obviously joining me on a golf course is a wonderful example because,
I will have you speak English for 1 or 2 hours or if you want to even a whole day.
And I will create that necessity for you.
Now, there are also three points that the writer of the third article throws against it.
But, I would like to invite you to read all three of the articles, which I have down below, yourself.
Instead of me explaining everything.
And that's my signal to sign off.
I hope you enjoyed it, I hope you like it.
I hope it helps a little bit to think about what you want to do with your children and for yourself obviously as well.
Please, down below, like, comment and subscribe.
Here you can subscribe as well to my channel.
That's it. Thank you very much for watching,
until next time, but until that time, don't forget to practice.
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