Teaching a 1 year old mandarin!

[justin9213]

How to do tech mandarin to a one year old?

 

[RockLee]

How do you teach a one year old English?

 

[justin9213]

By pointing at things and saying the name.I doubt that will work with chinese since chinese is tonal

 

[Mike Cash]

You obviously have no idea how infants learn language. They're prewired to pick up language; you don't have to teach it to them.

 

[justin9213]

cool!

but..We usually talk English around the 1 year old.So, I will just talk Chinese around her.

 

[Mike Cash]

And your degree of Chinese proficiency is what, exactly?

 

[justin9213]

I think I am still a begenner even though I know 7 characters and know 10 words

 

[RockLee]

Hmm, I doubt he'll become proficient in Chinese with only those 10 words If your pronounciation is bad, all is for naught!

 

[Mike Cash]

I think I am still a begenner even though I know 7 characters and know 10 words

Oh, don't judge yourself so harshly. That's like at least intermediate.

How long do you think it will take to teach the one year old those 10 words?

 

[Kakulin]

Send her to China... or pay the cooks at your local chinese restaurant to baby sit her.

 

[RockLee]

Hahaha, that's the wackiest idea so far !

 

[justin9213]

HA! HA! HA! ~ that is funny!

 

[Mike Cash]

Not nearly as funny as thinking you're going to teach a toddler a language you only know 10 words of yourself.

 

[Kakulin]

Wait until she is 6 years old or so and then make her learn with Rosetta Stone Mandarin.

 

[Minty]

Send her to China... or pay the cooks at your local chinese restaurant to baby sit her.

Actually I saw a report where white people in the states hire Mandarin speaking nannies.

 

[Gaijinian]

Actually I saw a report where white people in the states hire Mandarin speaking nannies.

I did, too.

Any, OP, you made me laugh so hard! Still a beginner, even though you know 10 words!

 

[Kakulin]

Actually I saw a report where white people in the states hire Mandarin speaking nannies.

But it would be better if he hires the chinese cooks instead because that way his daugher will learn both, mandarin and cooking.

 

[justin9213]

Ha~Ha~Ha~Ha!