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Source Website: http://www.todayonline.com/Columns/ParenttoParent/EDC120422-0000004/Our-Speak-Mandarin-campaign
By June Wan, todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg, 04:45 AM Apr 22, 201
Today on Sunday, Sunday, April 22, 2012, Page 8, Parent To Parent
I failed Chinese in school - but my experiment in talking to my son only in Mandarin has been a resounding success
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No, I said, we know them as "de shi".
Aren't you from China? he queried.
No, we are Singaporeans, I replied.
Oh, you've got your PR already, he quipped.
Er no, we're born and bred here, Uncle, I said.
But your son speaks like he's from China! the taxi driver exclaimed.
Whoo-hoo! I silently rejoiced. It worked!
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PHOTO: Speak Mandarin Campaign
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But eventually, over the weeks, it became easier. Xi guan cheng zi ran (make it a habit and it becomes natural), as the Chinese idiom goes.
PHOTO: Speak Mandarin Campaign.
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SO HE CAN CHAT WITH SWEDES AND POLITICIANS
I'd read that children could pick up a language easily through regular exposure to it, so the little one became my guinea pig. The main aim was just for him not to have to go through the same Mother Tongue learning struggles that I did in school.
http://www.schoolbag.sg/archives/2008/11/teachers_who_make_mother_tongu.php
- So if he travels to Sweden when he grows up, he'll have no problem getting around. After all, last year, Sweden's Education Minister Jan Bjorklund announced that all Swedish primary schools should offer Chinese lessons.
By Zyberzitizen, Posted by theonlinecitizen on February 28, 2007
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-language-of-our-forefathers-are-we-missing-something/
- So that he can, if he ever meets them, converse easily with overseas politicians who are fluent in Mandarin:
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd; United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; former US Ambassador to China (and Singapore!) and former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman ...
- So that back home, he will be able to
(i) order food at a hawker centre,
(ii) chat with taxi drivers and
(iii) gossip with aunties and grannies at the void deck.
Author: Danny Yeo 杨君伟
http://blog.omy.sg/dannyyeo/archives/category/%E8%AF%B4%E7%8E%AF%E5%A2%83/page/8
ENGAGE BRAIN - ON BOTH SIDES
A 2003 study in Britain found that it takes more brainpower to speak Mandarin, as both sides of the brain are engaged to understand the language. (Apparently this ability to engage both sides of the brain is exclusive to the Chinese language.)
I was also inspired by an interview with a local professor of Chinese language and culture who revealed that he spoke to his daughters only in Mandarin when they were growing up. They'll pick up English when they go to school, he'd said.
PHOTO: Speak Mandarin Campaign
http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/34940_story_images-tm.jpg?w=400&h=262
http://listverse.com/2010/02/26/10-modern-cases-of-linguistic-genocide/
Even better, because the older one is also exposed to Mandarin when I speak to his little brother, he has re-absorbed the language.
PHOTO: Girl's poster: "Grandma, please speak Mandarin."
Grandma (in Cantonese): "You got to be kidding!"
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvKdcGgkZGQ_j6ct1xMvOOCJITuZWAMDs1Yt63Hpz7Hs0Be8vU7FTgKxNdFr-udDPfhlqc2pFzwiNHdhuD_CX0GQEmyvIeRESVh2QjzzmsucexYlTDwlYVvHS4Cd5nkaRdzOBZwVSQF9TM/s1600/speak_mandarin_cartoon.jpg
http://chinamusictech.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-cantonese-in-danger-of-extinction.html
After this, we'll try Malay.
June Wan has two boys.
Reference
- Today on Sunday, Sunday, April 22, 2012, Page 8, Parent To Parent
- http://www.todayonline.com/PDFViewer/PDF/20120422/2204FFW008.pdf
- http://www.todayonline.com/Columns/ParenttoParent/EDC120422-0000004/Our-Speak-Mandarin-campaign
- http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/60307/projects/100215/603071213697888.jpg
- http://www.behance.net/gallery/speak-mandarin-campaign/100215
- http://chopchopcurrypok.com/?cat=30
- http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2539/4117262430_02bdb333e8_o.jpg
- http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2547/4117262328_0a5382a163_o.jpg
- http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/60307/projects/100215/603071213697970.jpg
- http://www.behance.net/gallery/speak-mandarin-campaign/100215
- http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/3039893589_503cf89e84.jpg
- http://www.schoolbag.sg/archives/2008/11/teachers_who_make_mother_tongu.php
- http://djhchinesekidz.blogspot.com/2009/11/only-bad-memories-of-chinese-lessons.html
- http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-language-of-our-forefathers-are-we-missing-something/
- http://blog.omy.sg/dannyyeo/files/2011/07/Speak-Mandarin-Campaign-2011-new-slogan.jpg
- http://blog.omy.sg/dannyyeo/archives/category/%E8%AF%B4%E7%8E%AF%E5%A2%83/page/8
- http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/34940_story_images-tm.jpg?w=400&h=262
- http://listverse.com/2010/02/26/10-modern-cases-of-linguistic-genocide/
- https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvKdcGgkZGQ_j6ct1xMvOOCJITuZWAMDs1Yt63Hpz7Hs0Be8vU7FTgKxNdFr-udDPfhlqc2pFzwiNHdhuD_CX0GQEmyvIeRESVh2QjzzmsucexYlTDwlYVvHS4Cd5nkaRdzOBZwVSQF9TM/s1600/speak_mandarin_cartoon.jpg
- http://chinamusictech.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-cantonese-in-danger-of-extinction.html
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