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| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4613 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 9 of 14 28 August 2012 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think it's a good thing. I was exposed to a bit of Spanish and French as a young child,
not a lot, but I was taught to count to 10 and some basics like that. When I tackled those two languages in my late teens and early twenties, I was often complemented for my accent and have been mistaken for a native speaker in both languages (despite my limited grammar and vocabulary). Is it because I was exposed to the sounds and made to pronounce them when I was under 5? I can't say for sure, but perhaps. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4704 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 10 of 14 28 August 2012 at 7:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Heh. Sounds a bit fishy, Moulder.
I think learning something you don't want/need to learn is not productive. That's an even bigger contributor to the fact that school language education is lacking good results than the fact that schools are doing it wrong. Since both is true to some degree, well. In the end, it doesn't really matter. If a kid is interested in a language or one can make it interested, well that's a great thing, and I think Solfrid does it right. It's definitely something the family should do, not schools, teachers. Teachers are enemies (from the POV of most kids). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 11 of 14 28 August 2012 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | ||
As for having a good accent, I'm sure that a huge factor is not having been exposed to bad French. I don't think anyone minds teaching kids informally, in a fun way and if they're already curious. However doing the same thing at school is far more complicated:/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5012 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 12 of 14 29 August 2012 at 12:57pm | IP Logged | ||
Children, unless we speak of stupid children which is just a small % (smaller than the % of stupid adults in my opinion) are in general less easily frustrated (from this kind of things), less focused on results and more open to just discovering and trying something they don't have to. And they learn pronunciation easier. I believe the pronunciation is actually the only reason why language courses for children/exposure in tv/teaching a suject in foreign language early/etc is a good thing, the rest of the content can be easily forgotten, no big harm done. I was exposed to English for the first time at the age of four, I remember quite nothing from the courses but I had never had serious trouble with pronunciation, unlike many Czech people. My first exposure to French came at nine and I learnt quite a lot of other things as well but the pronunciation as the most important (the rest could have been acquired later in one third of the time, there wasn't so much of it). So, if you know your child is one of the easily frustrated and not the one eager to know how to say hello in Spanish or how to sing the song in French, don't expose them to unpleasant experience and hope they will learn later (after all they will have to). But if your child is a usually or above average clever child, don't keep them from the opportunity intentionally. Even listening to the language (for exemple on a holiday) can make a difference, I can see it clearly on my small siblings now and on myself as well as the results are long-term. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4668 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 13 of 14 29 August 2012 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I took one short (maybe six weeks?) Spanish course when I was six or seven and heard Spanish incidentally pretty often throughout my childhood. As a result the sounds of Spanish have always felt completely natural to me, and most of the differences from their not-quite-the-same English counterparts have seemed obvious to me. Wish I had that experience for some other languages, too!
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| petteri Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4935 days ago 117 posts - 208 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: German, Spanish | Message 14 of 14 29 August 2012 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Make it fun. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbX0JT98ms 1 person has voted this message useful |
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