Teaching Little Kobold to be multilingual
English:
(Translation in Indonesian could be found here)Hello dear Steemians...
Today I'd like to show you the first result of our effort to create a polyglot Little Kobold.
The world is getting smaller, the border is getting thinner. Globalisation doesn't only mean the exchange of goods between nations but also exchange of humans so being able to speak more than one language is definitely a big plus point in one's competency.
Growing up in a binational family or simply in another country should be a big advantage for every children because it gives them the opportunity to learn at least two languages at the early age.
It's widely known and proven by various educational researches that learning foreign languages since toddler gives the higher probability to let a person master those languages in native speaker levels.
It's not gonna be easy I know, and I know that not every childred are gifted with special talent in linguistic so that not everyone would be able to master some languages in intermediate levels.
However one should at least put some effort to try it first. Indeed we are not suppose to force children to be bilingual if they are not especially interested in languages.
But isn't it really regrettable...if our children couldn't even have a proper conversation with their grandparents from the other country?
Their grandparents are much older, so it simply makes more sense to expect the younger one to learn the foreign language and not reverse.
I think, to the level of understanding what the speaking partner said should at least quite possible if we are persistent enough.
(Unless there is an exceptional case with the child, which hinders it to learn another language of course).
Only when there is 3rd. party among us, or when we are speaking with each other then we would speak German.
I would speak German with her as well despite the daddy's absence, if we are in the public places and other people are trying to hold a conversation with her (most of the time old ladies love doing that ^_^ ).
Before our Asian trip last month our little princess haven't spoken any German word at all except "Mama/Papa", but she has understood us.
Even when I told her to dispose her own used diaper to the bin, she did it too. She is now 1,5 years old and some children in her age have normally spoken few words already.
However I have read that it's rather common if bilingual children start to speak later than those growing only with one language, so I didn't have too much worry yet.
Yes, Indonesian is her first language to speak. She could recognise some animal names and body parts rather well in Indonesian.
The interesting thing is that she prefer to say "Auto" instead of "mobil" which means: car. No matter how many times I correct her, she always says "Auto" then laughed happily.
Recently she had spoken a bit more German words, for example few days ago while I was getting prepared in the bathroom before going to the Steemfest event suddenly she came in and said:"schön".
So sweeeet...
There is nothing can compare to the feeling when your 1,5 years old baby suddenly smiles to you and says that you are pretty while doing your make up/dressing up.
I nearly couldn't believe my ears so that I asked her again whether she meant that it was really the mommy being pretty and she nodded vigorously few times, grinned widely and said "schön" again.
At another occasion I picked up a nice dress for her and asked her again similar question and she responded the same way again so it means that she really understand what "schön" means.
But the funny thing was, whenever I told her to say "cantik", she insists saying "schön". After observing for a while it seems as if she just chooses to say the words that are probably easier or shorter to say for her...
She seems to inherit our laziness indeed, even in speaking she is so lazy, so sparingly....
Energy and effort saving hahaha.
I need to work more to let her understand that she should differentiate the people she speaks with, cos not everyone could understand her language 😅😜😝.
Btw, since I have been trying to upload the video in DTube but kept failing, finally I must use my YouTube channel again.
The video about little kobold showing off her Indonesian vocabularies could be watched below:
And as a closure, I'd show you two snap shots taken from one of our stroll between the corn field.
You can't see any plants anymore on the field because the harvesting period has just been over.
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![](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSPh4Mz5zNpK1RxRSdbgNJ74AzUibzhxW8KWTB31ggbSo/IMAG3604.jpg)
That's it for today and I'd see you again with the next story from our Asian trip.
Thanks in advance for your upvotes. :-)
How's little princess doing? I miss her soft cheek!! :D
She is having her breakfast at the moment 🍅🍶🧀🥖.
We miss you too... Let's hope that steem price would soon rise again, so that we could visit you im Korea 🐱😄.
If I remember correctly, you will fly home today right?
Have a safe journey...
Awww what a lovely girl :)
Yeah, I miss you guys too!! I'm sure Steem will help us meeting again! Hehe
Say hello to @jaki0 as well!
Wah pinter saget malem piyambak
Es war so schön, euch und eure entzückende Tochter auf dem Steemfest persönlich kennen zu lernen! Mit ihrem bezaubernden Lächeln hat sie nicht nur unsere Herzen im Sturm erobert!
Durch die zweisprachige Erziehung gebt ihr eurer Tochter einen großen Startvorteil mit auf den Weg. Spricht es nicht auch für ihre Cleverness, wenn sie sich situationsbedingt für die einfachere Ausdrucksweise entscheidet? ;-) Welches Kompliment könnte wohl schöner sein, als jenes von deinem kleinen Kobold! :D
Wir haben uns auch sehr gefreut, euch alle persönlich kennenzulernen.
Auch wenn es manchmal anstrengend war, in das Steemfest teilzunehmen war eine gute Entscheidung.
Es ist sehr wertvolle Erfahrung, auch für die Kleine, weltöffene Menschen kennenzulernen...vor allem weil die Meisten noch sehr jung sind.
So hat man noch etwas Höffnung für unsere Welt.
Und du hast Recht, es ist auch sehr clever, wie sie die Wörter so aussucht.
Es ist auch sehr interessant, was sie als schwierig empfindet. Für sie sind scheinbar Umlaute und doppelte Konsonanten kein Problem. So lange die Wörter kürzer als der indonesische Ausdruck sind, sagt sie es lieber auf Deutsch. Für mich ist es echt ein Problem, sie korrekt auszusprechen. :)
Und asr Kompliment des kleinen Kobolds hat mich tatsächlich sehr glücklich gemacht. :-)
Alex und ich haben ja leider einige Veranstaltungen versäumt. Trotzdem war das Steemfest auch für uns ein tolles Erlebnis. Vor allem aufgrund der persönlichen Begegnungen mit aufgeschlossenen Menschen aus aller Welt. Ja, es gibt Hoffnung, wenn sich vor allem auch die Jugend mit zukunftsweisenden Technologien und Denkansätzen auseinandersetzt. Bleibt zu hoffen, dass das beträchtliche geistige Potential, das auf dem Fest "versammelt" war, unsere Plattform ein Stück weiter bringt.
Wirklich interessant, wie eure Kleine zwischen den beiden Sprachen jongliert. Sie wird euch später einmal sehr dankbar sein, dass sie zweisprachig aufwachsen durfte. :D
Good girl :-) SCHÖN macht sie das!
And good luck for learning two languages from a bilingual family-member :D
Ja ja ja...Englisch kommt auch so bald wie möglich danach... Sie hat Englisch immerhin bereits kennengelernt 😆.
Jetzt kann sie ja schon "Bye Bye" sagen hahahahaha.
aaahhhhh my little dancer... she made us win the bowling with her supporting dances...
I speak 5 languages and if i ever have . a child it will learn as many as i can teach it. it will start with opol as well
A cute cheerleader indeed. :-D
"Sprache öffnet die Tür", so sagt man ja. ^_^
If possible, I would also teach her my 2nd native language "Janavese", because at my hometown we actually speak Javanese in daily life and only use Indonesian language for official business.
But I could imagine that it would be more difficult than teaching her Indonesian.
Ohhh, dass ist so toll, wenn sie Sprechen lernen.
Ich hatte mal nen Minimann, der zu Libellen Appapauda sagte, niemand weiss, warum. Aber er war einfach 100% überzeugt, dass eine Libelle Appapauda heisst und grinste dabei stolz.
Kinder haben auch ihre eigene Sprache...Komischerweise verstehen sie sich tatsächlich miteinander sehr gut hahaha. Wir erwachsene sind leider nicht fähig dazu, ihre Sprache zu entziffern LOL.
Es ist super von euch als Eltern, dass ihr die kleine Prinzessin gleich zwei sprachig erzieht. Es gibt nichts besseres für ein Kind, wenn es mehre sprachen spricht in der heutigen Zeit. Sie wird es euch Danken. Es war schön euch beim Steemfest kennen zulernen!
Wir haben uns auch sehr gefreut, euch alle persönlich kennenzulernen. Dabei hat unsere Kleine auch ein zwei Wörter gelernt ^_^. Das ist doch nicht so schlecht für den Anfang.
Der Anfang ist gemacht;)
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She is sooo cute, next blockchain generation :3
Hahaha, definitely. That's why we always take her around, to let her learning early enough about blockchain LOL.
WOW!!! Your little princess is really cute and so clever. Learning multilingual is not easy, but she is doing well and I think, it would be fun for her to speak and learn the languages as she smiles all the times and has cheerful voice. I especially love her sweet smile after she finished speaking at the first half of the video.
In the second half of the video, it seems that she well understands Indonesian vocabularies about her body and she looks happy to do so. (I think, I can learn Indonesian vocabularies from your video, too. Ha ha!)
Ah! I can imagine how you felt when she said "schön" with her sweet smile to you…. Really great and exciting moment, right? Yeah! And I think, you are “schön”, as she said indeed.
I’m very happy to see that she holds her Kitty doll all the times while speaking…. ^_____^
I very much enjoyed watching her through your video. (several times)
Thanks so much for sharing. ;))))
Das ist super geil! Ich würde meine Kindern auch viele Sprache beibringen, wenn ich Kindern habe. Aber zuerst muss ich mein Deutsch verbessern oder? 😂
Du hast noch viel Zeit dafür (Kinder zu bekommen meine ich) 😀.
Well, I would be glad to be able to teach my little girl Mandarin too, but I need to advance my chinese proficiency first as well 😅.
我也希望能说更好的中文 😊.
Haha!! That is true. But hopefully, I won't forget my Deutsch until that time! :D
Ugh I wish to learn Mandarin myself too.