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| sfuqua Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4793 days ago 581 posts - 977 votes  Speaks: English*, Hawaiian, Tagalog Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 1 09 May 2012 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
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Has anybody tried doing chorusing or shadowing to teach a language to little kids (5 years old)? My 5 year old daughter wants to clean up her Cebuano to prepare for a trip to the Philippines this summer. Her cousins speak Cebuano, and she wants to be one of the gang. She sees her father studying Spanish, and thinks she should "study."
Chorusing seems to be a natural for little children. Shadowing could be a way to extend chorusing into some connected dialog. I know that the sessions would have to be short, tiny little things for a little kid, but I wonder if anybody has tried it. It might be fun for my wife and daughter. Little kids are awesome imitators, and I wonder if it might not work very quickly. I know the most natural way would be for my daughter to just use Cebuano with my wife, who is a native speaker, but our attempts at this keep falling apart. I don't speak Cebuano, and when they try to speak it they leave me out. After they switch to a language I know, they usually don't switch back. steve 1 person has voted this message useful |
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