Comments on: The Pros And Cons Of Being Bilingual https://mytwogirls.net/?p=6710 WAHM's journey to bringing up two girls Wed, 30 Oct 2013 06:22:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Grace https://mytwogirls.net/?p=6710&cpage=1#comment-183470 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 06:22:47 +0000 http://mytwogirls.net/?p=6710#comment-183470 In reply to Shikee.

oh no. I understand where you are coming and i totally understand too when you encourage me to speak as many language i could to my children next time because i totally agree with you 🙂
My fiance and I are totally proud that we could speak our mother tongues well and our bahasa kebangsaan too. We are definitely going to pass down our mother tongues to our children. We dont want them to forget their roots either. 🙂

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By: Shikee https://mytwogirls.net/?p=6710&cpage=1#comment-182139 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:51:25 +0000 http://mytwogirls.net/?p=6710#comment-182139 In reply to Grace.

Hi Grace, actually i think u should try to communicate with your children as much languages as u can, cuz i’m kinda jealous my friend who can speak really fluently Hokkien or some other dialects. For me, i’m 20 now, i only can understand Hokkien but couldnt speak. This is a practice i think, as my parents used to speak Chinese to me, but my grandma speaks Hokkien to my parents or us(sometimes). Besides, i went to Chinese primary, and kebangsaan secondary (but mostly Chinese student, like 90 per cent) which kinda caused i speak very typical Malaysian Chinese and English (Manglish) where i learn from Internet. That’s why i’m not good in every languages. And u’re really lucky to know all these languages and u should try to teach your children! So that they can keep this tradition. 🙂 Hopefully this doesn’t annoy you. Thank you and have a nice day.

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By: Fion https://mytwogirls.net/?p=6710&cpage=1#comment-182086 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:23:14 +0000 http://mytwogirls.net/?p=6710#comment-182086 Always love being able to speak more languages!! My friends from mainland n Korea are always so envious at Malaysians becos we r able to speak so many languages!!!

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By: littlelamb https://mytwogirls.net/?p=6710&cpage=1#comment-182085 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:21:34 +0000 http://mytwogirls.net/?p=6710#comment-182085 true…so i m master of none to the 3 languages.

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By: Grace https://mytwogirls.net/?p=6710&cpage=1#comment-181995 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:55:30 +0000 http://mytwogirls.net/?p=6710#comment-181995 Your case is still considered ok. I come from a family that speaks our mother tongue (kelabit) , bahasa malaysia, bahasa sarawak and english at home. Thats 4 language! Just like you, sometimes we dont knw how to say certain word in our mother tongue, we say it either in english or bahasa sarawak or malaysia, whichever is comfortable first. Everything is like rojak now. But because of my fiance, we speak english majority. So my brain speaks english. But we do have situations where we mix it with bahasa sarawak. My fiance speaks english, his mother tongue (kayan), bahasa sarawak, bahasa malaysia and mandarin (5 language!). Now we need to decide how many language we want our future children to speak! Oh man.

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