Chinese families fail to challenge "Speaking only Mandarin". Why are children becoming less and less able to speak Chinese?



Recently I was amused by a video of "The whole family only speaks Mandarin challenge", but after laughing, my heart is mixed...
The story happened on New Year’s Eve. A Chinese family sat together to share a New Year’s Eve dinner. At the proposal of grandma, they began to play a "Only speak mandarin"The New Year's game.
 
The rule of the game is that everyone can only communicate in Mandarin, and whoever speaks English will be eliminated.Soon, two children who are not good at speaking MandarinI gave up after only three sentences.In the end, only the mother and the younger son insisted on the duel, wanting to see who speaks Mandarin better...
 
This story is a scene in the American sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat". It describes a series of ridiculous stories that happened after a Taiwanese Chinese family originally settled in Chinatown, Washington, moved to Orlando, Florida.


The challenges of this family reflectA phenomenon that exists in many Chinese families-It is a big challenge for Chinese children to learn Chinese overseas, from learning to truly proficient application. Behind this problem, the language environment and learning methods are very important in the learning process.


Chinese language environment is gradually being diluted

Many Chinese parents hope that their children will have "built-in bilingual functions" and be able to freely switch between Chinese and the local language according to the occasion and the interlocutor, and it is best to have more in-depth communication.But in fact, more than 50% of children who live in non-Chinese countries for a long time will quickly integrate into the local language environment, resulting in more and more proficient local languages.The level of Chinese that was dominant has gradually faded.

The biggest reason isThere is no Chinese language environment, or the Chinese language environment is limited to the family.


Just like in the "Speaking Mandarin" game in "First Time", the younger son can still speak Chinese because he has little contact with the external environment, while the eldest son and the second son can only give up the game early.You know, they give up not only this game, but also a kind of "too difficult, I don't want to challenge" "giving up".
 
In the confrontation between the family environment and the external environment, the language environment for Chinese children to learn Chinese has been diluted.

The learning system is not scientific enough, really can’t learn Chinese

Many foreign Chinese experts have stated in educational theoretical works--Second language learningWe must start from the baby, and we must pay more attention to the systematization of teaching.
 
Why start from the doll?
 
In the golden age of language, parents should work hard to create a language environment, insist on dialogue in Chinese, and encourage children to express in Chinese, so that children will transition from simply communicating in Chinese to fluently in Chinese.
 
Why study systematically?
 


The assessment of Chinese proficiency has always been based on comprehensive ability, which mainly includes four parts: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, each accounting for 1/4. The combination of listening and speaking is oral interaction, and reading and writing are written interactions.

The professional and systematic Chinese teaching system will establish an ideal language learning environment in a guided way, allowing children to speak, recognize and think in Chinese consciously.From listening and speaking, to strengthening reading and writing, follow the logic of Chinese learning to teach and consolidate, helping children to gradually improve their Chinese proficiency.

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