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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4437 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 1 of 2 09 June 2018 at 5:05am | IP Logged |
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you lose your native language? This is the link to a recent BBC article. In my opinion, when you are learning a new language, that language doesn't need to compete with your native tongue but complement it. If you are living in an English speaking country (England or Australia) and learn a foreign language like French, it can even help your English improve by thinking and using about your native language in new ways. Losing your native language becomes a problem for people who live abroad. Being brought up in a Chinese-speaking environment while living abroad, my mother as an adult maintained her fluency in the Chinese language and still reads a Chinese newspaper regularly without forgetting the Chinese characters. My older siblings who were educated in a Chinese primary school before moving abroad have maintained their fluency of the spoken language but lost the ability to recognize the characters. Being brought up in a similar environment, I can read up to 80-90% of the characters in a Chinese newspaper. In primary school in the East we were just too busy with at least 3h of homework and after-school tutoring. Very few people even had time to read a newspaper. We were happen to have our homework done and be playing outside. Whether we retain our native language living abroad has to do with our attitude. Personally, I think having a second language provides a window to the 'other side' like I get to listen to news on the radio online on events that happen in China or Taiwan I normally don't get listening to the news broadcast in Canada. Like my other siblings, I was brought up in a school environment that focused on academics. The workload was too heavy to even go to the library to read anything outside school materials. It was only after moving abroad I had time for books in my native language and over the years picked up many more Chinese characters on my own than the few years in a Chinese primary school. Edited by shk00design on 09 June 2018 at 5:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5128 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 2 of 2 09 June 2018 at 5:00pm | IP Logged |
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Now I know why I can learn Arabic vocabs easier: Because there's a lot of Arabic vocabs got absorbed to Indonesian. Japanese on the other hand...
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