Will you teach your kids Chinese?

The real question is: will you teach them chinese before english or vice versa, or at

the same time.........

 

100% i will want to to pass down the chinese language and because i dont speak english that well and chinese is more dominate language.

 

i know i definitely will send my kids to chinese school and teach them chinese -- they need to recognize this part of their heritage!

 

Definitely take them to Chinese class or teach them personally.
What will define them as chinese if they do not know the language?

 

yea agree with q there.. and it'd be hard if your aren't using Chinese as much and only teach be able to teach them very lil..

 

Of course....Chinese is going to be (or already is) the 2nd International language (i would say, somehow its more important than Eng) in the world.......the Chinese language is essential in this world

 

Yes if I had kids definetly would teach them some Chinese.

 

I would teach them the best I know of, since I moved to Canada. Perhaps send them to Chinese school.

 

i'd have them go to chinese school up til they're around 13 or 14 years old..then its up to them to continue or not
i'd have them at least know how to speak and communicate in chinese as for the writing/reading its up to them to learn it because i personally cant read/write chinese only speak
i took chinese school until i was 13 then i just stopped since i wasnt really learning..it just wouldnt get into my head lol

 

My kids are definately gonna learn swedish, english, chinese and maybe japanese.

 

I totally agree with you on that point - knowing the language is the solid definition for being Chinese. One person can act, dress, look, eat food, be informed about being Chinese (culturally informed) - but if they are unable to express anything verbally, they're basically NOT Chinese.

 

I'll teach my kids Mandarin and Cantonese. As for other dialects; there are just too many different dialects in Chinese language. And I don't know all of them!

 

i'll make them watch hk movies that's how i learned cantonese

 

i would definitely teach my kids chinese...

 

Of course i will. Teaching ur children chinese will defintely be useful because they can easily be credit as a bi-langual. and in today schools, most school will make kids take languages, so they can become tri- langual. It would indeed pump up a resimate do u think. Like if ur a boss of a company, who would u pick? A tri-lingual asian, or a bi langual american?

 

Definitely. I think you should try and hold onto your roots.

 

definitely, I plan on teaching my kids to read/write chinese and speak canton and mandarin.. and maybe a little french too -noclue

 

you should teach them chinese. there's no point in forcing yourself to only marry chinese girls in order to teach chinese to your kids. that's a excessive in trying to preserve your culture. you can do it other ways.

 

definitely!

I am proud XD

 

definitely yes!