Learning Chinese is already a child's thing
Teaching Chinese language to children is becoming increasingly popular in many countries around the world. Many parents find that today learning Chinese is already a child's thing because this language has many advantages for the professional future of children in their adulthood. The question raise
Teaching Chinese languageto children is becoming increasingly popular in many countries around the world. Many parents find that today learning Chinese is already a child's thing because this language has many advantages for the professional future of children in their adulthood. The question raised by parents is how to familiarize children with Chinese and, for this reason, they are looking for ways to facilitate their learning, taking into account the difficulties that arise from the study of Chinese, in pronunciation and in writing of the language for children.
Facilities for children to learn Chinese
Currently, in the United States, according to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages , approximately 60,000 children study Chinese in public schools. In the last five years, in the big cities like Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia is where the greatest variety of resources has grown to learn Chinese as an extracurricular activity for children.
Other options to familiarize the baby with the Chinese language from an early age are to hire a Chinese au pair or a Chinese baby-sitter, who can speak in Chinese to the babies so that they can learn this language effortlessly in the first years of its development. At what age can children learn Chinese?
Learning Chinese is not easy, but children enjoy a privileged situation because they can learn languages from an early age without effort. In the development of children, there are two stages to learn languages that should be taken advantage of.
1. Between 6 and 12 months.
At this stage , ap children learn to distinguish sounds more clearly between their native languages and others.2. Between 12 months and 5 years.This stage is the one of greater receptivity of the children to the languages, since the neural interconnections in the brain of the children multiply. From 12 months to 5 years, children can learn Chinese through play and contact with Chinese people.
3. From 5 years and up.Instead, starting at this age, children are less receptive to learning a new language. Although it is not impossible, but the task of teaching the language is difficult. Sometimes, from the age of five, the phonemes of a language such as Chinese, so different from Spanish, are never properly learned.
Reasons for children to learn Chinese 1. Changes in culture and education.
Worldwide, interest in incorporating Chinese as a third language is growing.
2. Chinese is the language of the future. More and more parents are seeing China win positions as an economic power and believe that learning Chinese will help their children in the future.
3. Interest in Chinese culture. Due to the increasing number of adoptions of Chinese girls or children from other Asian countries, many parents want them to stay in touch with their roots.
Marisol Nuevo.
