The Parenting Thread

[GoktimusPrime]

This year my daughter's class have been learning how to read/write Katakana in Japanese school. Every week the teacher asks the kids to share what words they know that contain two select Katakana characters, and the teacher writes correct answers on the board. Last Saturday's characters were サ (sa) and ナ (na). Her contribution for "sa" was a fairly common word; サラダ (sarada= salad), but then the teacher asked the kids for "na" words, and here's what my daughter said (circled in yellow)...

For those who may not know, Katakana characters are typically reserved for writing non-Japanese words (foreign loanwords). My daughter's answer is actually two Latin words. They are...





ウルトラマグナス = urutora magunasu = ULTRA MAGNUS

[GoktimusPrime]

My daughter's in the lounge room watching Sesame Street and I just overheard the Count singing a song, "Eight is great!" and I immediately thought, "Yeah, 8 is great, but when you push it over it just goes on forever."

8 ╮
...∞

[GoktimusPrime]

Please take a minute to complete this quick survey about mono/multilingual parenting, and feel free to share this link so that I can gather as much data as possible. Thank you. The survey is completely anonymous.

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[Bladestorm]

Please take a minute to complete this quick survey about mono/multilingual parenting, and feel free to share this link so that I can gather as much data as possible. Thank you. The survey is completely anonymous.

https://www.playbuzz.com/goktimuspri...gual-parenting

Done. Shared with my friends.

Will be curious to see how your results pan out.

[GoktimusPrime]

Done. Shared with my friends.

Will be curious to see how your results pan out.

Thank you and thanks to everyone else who's participated. Please do share this poll with others as I'd like to collate as much data as possible.

P.S.: There is a mistake in the wording of the fourth poll option. It should read: "Parents speak SAME language, child(ren) is BILINGUAL"

So to clarify, here are all the poll options...


Parents speak different languages, child(ren) is trilingual


Parents speak different languages, child(ren) is bilingual


Parents speak different languages, child(ren) is monolingual


Parents speak different languages, child(ren) is bilingual


Parents speak same minority language child, is monolingual


Parents are monolingual, child(ren) is/are multilingual


Parents and child(ren) are all monolingual

[Trent]

Toddler: the ultimate test of patience.

[Starscream77]

Toddler: the ultimate test of patience.

Preaching to the choir brother !
At least you were smart enough not to have a second one