How do you enlighten children in English?

Everyone knows the importance of learning a foreign language. But when to learn a foreign language, there is a lot of knowledge. Parents often wonder when they can let their children learn a foreign language. Let children learn a foreign language too early, will they confuse the two languages, and finally they can't speak Chinese well and learn a foreign language well?

There are also parents who let their children learn foreign languages by sending them directly to foreign language classes, or even letting them learn some mnemonics and memorize words crazily. I really want to say, how can language learning rely solely on memorizing words?

The most important principle for children to learn a foreign language is to stimulate their interest in learning. Language acquisition depends on subtle influence, and it needs quiet learning to cultivate children's interest and confidence in foreign languages.

In particular, parents are required to spend more energy on their children. Parents should not be lazy in their children's language learning. They shouldn't throw their children into training classes or put them in front of English learning machines. Parents should pay attention to "playing" with their children and interact with them in English.

When do you learn a foreign language? How to learn? My answer is that "late" is not as good as "early" and "back" is not as good as "play".

Why is it better to learn a foreign language "late" than "early"?

The first is that the earlier you learn different languages, the less likely you are to interfere with each other. The second is that the earlier you learn a language, the stronger your neural plasticity is.

Because children have the strongest ability to learn languages when they are young. Think about it, did you take a "Chinese interest class" when you were a child? Have you ever recited Chinese words? But didn't you speak Chinese as fluently in the end? Children can learn language naturally and effortlessly as long as they live in a natural and healthy environment, are accompanied by their relatives and talk and interact with him every day.

Children can learn more than their mother tongue. They can learn two or more languages at the same time. Because babies learn not only language, but also a whole set of ways to interact with the environment, including language. In other words, he knows what language to use in any occasion. For example, if your grandparents speak dialects, you have probably discovered that your baby will naturally speak dialects to the elderly, but as soon as he looks up and sees you coming, he immediately turns to Mandarin.

Children switch between the pronunciations of two languages very quickly, so they don't get confused. Parents can rest assured that foreign languages can be learned early and there is no interference between different languages.

The earlier you learn a foreign language, the more authentic your child's foreign language will be and the more standard his accent will be. Children all over the world can distinguish subtle differences in export sounds at an early age, but if the language stimuli she receives are single, such as only Chinese, she may not be able to distinguish some subtle differences in foreign language pronunciation when she grows up. Many studies show that children after the age of two will gradually lose the ability to distinguish sounds that are not their mother tongue.

Then why not "play" it and "recite" it?

You don't have to wait for your child to master the mother tongue before you start learning a foreign language, but the sooner you expose your child to a bilingual environment, the better. This is called immersion learning, that is, let your children soak in the jar of foreign language environment and absorb a foreign language as naturally as learning their mother tongue. This is much more effective than memorizing words and grammar when you grow up.

"Play" here refers to the rich interaction between parents and babies. Playing a foreign language ability is learning a foreign language in life. In face-to-face communication, children not only remember the word, but also naturally master a lot of other information, such as the usage of the word and the context in which it is used.

It is found that the most effective way for babies to learn a language is to communicate with real people face to face. The same sentence, played on the video, is not so effective for the baby to learn. Therefore, the best way for children to learn English is not to let them recite words by themselves, or to play English children's songs and watch English cartoons, but to chat and play games with children more in English. In the scenes that these children are familiar with, it is easier for them to understand the meaning of objects and acquire languages.

Why interaction is so important for language learning? Because when people communicate face to face, the amount of information transmitted is the largest. Children learn not only the superficial meaning of a word, but also the deeper meaning.

Sometimes children have difficulty in learning a foreign language, not because their real language ability is poor, but because their parents have taught them the wrong way. Children's brains are not good at abstract learning, so there is no need to force them to recite words word for word. However, this way of "playing" through interaction with children is figurative learning and conforms to the law of children's brain growth. Even in the face of a lot of information, children can absorb it faster and remember it better.

Enlightening foreign languages in daily activities is a highly recommended way. I believe you can find many repetitive words in your daily life, such as weather, numbers, games children often play, favorite animals, cartoon images and so on. Teach children in a different way with these most interesting everyday expressions.

Finally, I still want to say a word here, parenting comes first, which also exercises parents' language and communication skills. In the meantime, you can enjoy this parent-child time with him.

No matter what you learn, entertaining is the most important thing.

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