TV: Progress in Chinese

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An online channel dedicated to promoting a love of Mandarin starting from a child's preschool years.Diana Ser is founder of Crazy About Chinese (www.dianaser.com), an online channel dedicated to promoting a love of Mandarin starting from a child's preschool years. She champions parent-led learning during the "golden period" of language acquisition 0- 6 years, through play and routine day-to-day activities. A former broadcast journalist, Diana is effectively bilingual in English and Mandarin. She has over 20 years of experience in the Singapore media industry spanning TV, print and radio.

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Both husband and me are Malaysian and we are coming from Chinese educated background. But our child born in Sg. Should we speak only mandarin to our child? If yes will it be difficult for our child to pick up the english spoken environment when growing up? And primary language in sg is english. I feel weird when I speak mandarin to our child but people around me mostly speak english. Both of us feel that Mandarin and English are important too.

Wow if you are from a Chinese ed background, rejoice! I would not worry about your child picking up English - the larger environment in Singapore will ensure he/she hears it often enough. It will be good if one parent can speak English. If you are not confident of your language, listen to lots of audio. When I first started reading the news, I listened to BBC Radio every single day, whenever I could. I picked up correct pronunciations that way. Good luck!

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My partner and I speak different languages. Should we only speak to our children in our own language if we want them to be bilingual?

Children learn through listening and watching. By exposing them to different lang, they pick up faster. My hub and I speak Eng to them, pil mandarin while helper in malay so they pick up 3 lang. My children understand and can speak the lang too. So good to speak in diff lang even dialets as they are like sponge. Able to absorb and absorb.

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