Teaching your kid a language.

[winth]

Hi, I just found a good source to learn Japanese.


Bought those Japanese cds from one forummer in the trading post. It’s the ‘Teach Me… Teach Me More… series’. It’s an award winning series of audio cds in various languages like japanese, spanish, italian. You can check it out from the web about this Teach Me series.

I bought the Japanese series as I’ve always tried means and ways to expose them to jap language. I speak intermediate level japanese too, so it’s very easy for me to decode to my children.

We played it in our family car and it’s so NICE!!! Actually it’s a series of nursery rhymes and all-too-familiar children songs that are basically sung in Japanese language. And it’s very tastefully done up, sung by children (mostly) and they are speak in japanese language to tell a simple daily life of this narrator Mary. They have a book written in Romanji (equivalent to hanyu pinyin to help you read Japanese). So parents who might not understand Hiragana will still be able to read the words.

Within 2 days, my 5 year old is able to speak accurate おやすみなさい, みんなさん, which meant ‘goodnight, everyone’. And my 18 month old was like playing along with the tune when we heard ‘Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes’.

We loved the CD so much and it sure beats listening to Class 95 or 933 for a change.

[jedamum]

winth:

We loved the CD so much and it sure beats listening to Class 95 or 933 for a change.

sounds good!
any pic or link we can refer to?
available in popular bookstore/CD rama?

[winth]

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[winth]

[quote]sounds good!

any pic or link we can refer to?
available in popular bookstore/CD rama? [/quote]

Hi jedamum,

I have never seen them from popular bookstore though. CD rama not sure, cos i've never visited those.


http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=PqsrHai

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=PqsrM9A

These are the 2 cds that I've bought. You can check out http://www.teachmetapes.com, I think they sell in US currency and shipment is expensive. So I just bought these CDs from the forummer from trading post.

[JustADad]

According to my wife, who is a child care teacher, young children are able to learn 3 or 4 languages at the same time. For my son, he is learning


English - his preferred language and he will use English if he realises the person understands English even if the person is speaking in Mandarin.

Chinese

Gujarati - mainly with my wife and his cousins.

Hindi - similar to Gujarati but we watch Hindi movies and the Hindi channels - Zee TV, Start Plus and Sony on Starhub.

He is able to respond. When my wife went back to visit her parents, my boy was speaking quite a bit of Gujarati.

[sashimi]

I'm looking for means of teaching my 6-yr-old Japanese - have to check out those Teach Me/Teach Me More series - can anyone advise where I can find them?


I've been learning Japanese for 2.5 years and my wife is tackling JLPT1 this Dec. Anyone else?


I've read in the past that any level of exposure to foreign languages is good for kids as it teaches them the unique sounds of each language, eg. the \"r\" sound in Japanese, which is somewhere in between \"r\" and \"L\" (there is no L in Japanese).

This way, when they grow up, they will have an advantage learning the language, if they don't do it earlier.

[shine]

Hi Sashimi, have pm you.