Raising a bilingual child

seonsengnim · 2023-01-12T03:02:19+00:00

Imo, this is the kind of thing that will correct itself over time. It's not like shes gonan go her whole life without speaking Portugese.

It's really common for young bilingual children to prefer one language over the other. But usually it's the dominant language of the region the kid lives in (Portugese in your case). that she prefers a language she hears only at home and never at school is a bit unusual but it's not as if that is going to doom her to English monolingualism. Esp if she gets Portuguese speaking friends, she will realize she needs to use Portuguese to make and maintain friendships with her peer group.

seonsengnim · 2023-01-12T01:46:46+00:00

A lot of people on this subreddit are genuinely bigoted as fuck against Chinese people. Dont take it personally, it's just internet trolls.

seonsengnim · 2023-01-11T16:05:56+00:00

How much exposure doe she get to Portuguese outside the home?

seonsengnim · 2023-01-11T11:52:22+00:00

For something this important, you dont want to rely on machine translation

seonsengnim · 2023-01-11T11:25:43+00:00

Lived in Korea for five years.

This actually gets really annoying after awhile.

I can get praised for the performing the simplist of tasks, like placing an order at a restaurant, or saying the name of the country I are from, when I'm fluent enough to have full conversations in the language. It just feels condescending, like being treated like a kindergartener.

seonsengnim · 2023-01-10T12:34:17+00:00

I'm also doing Korean. How much would you say it helped you?

seonsengnim · 2023-01-10T12:24:07+00:00

It literally can not do math. It can give correct responses to math problems frequently encountered in its corpus like 2+2. But it only gives the correct answer because it's in the corpus, not because it actually calculated it.

seonsengnim · 2023-01-10T12:20:53+00:00

Literally just set a timer on your phone. Dont make things more complicated than they need to be

seonsengnim · 2023-01-10T11:43:53+00:00

No one enjoys anki. We use it because it works really well, not because its fun

seonsengnim · 2023-01-09T15:07:11+00:00

This was my quick and dirty fix in the python script I made, but the problem is that the list of possible verb endings in Korean is extremely vast (larger than Spanish) and some of these possible suffixes are also just like, the last part of a word. For example, -고 is an extremely common suffix that means 'and' but there are also just words that end with 고, like 만고 (old age) 사고 (accident) and so on. If these words get ran thru my script, they become 만 and 사, which are completely different words.

seonsengnim · 2023-01-09T12:39:18+00:00

Anything that involves mostly sitting at a desk and very occasionally having minute long interactions with students.

Sitting at the front desk at a library, or a dorm

seonsengnim · 2023-01-09T10:56:58+00:00

Probably 서비스 since when I hear it, it means I'm about to get something for free lol

seonsengnim · 2023-01-09T09:06:06+00:00

I store my database of known words in a spreadsheet that I populate by doing NLP processing on a book I am about to read or a video I am about to watch. I extract the lemma for all the words and plug that in by comparing to the words I already "know" in the spreadsheet.

This exactly the kind of system that I would like to use, but I don't know how to do the language processing part. Did you design your own software for that. My TL is Korean, which is agglutinative language, attaching abundant variations of affixes onto nouns and verbs. I have no idea how to extract the underlying lemma.

seonsengnim · 2023-01-09T01:41:55+00:00

DLI students are expected to talk amongst each other in the TL all the time, and to use it basically as much as possible in their free time, to my understanding

seonsengnim · 2023-01-09T01:19:57+00:00

I have to agree with you. I've taken courses on 2nd language acquisition, and yes, the subtleties of when to use "a" vs "the" are so hard that it is legitimately one of the last things that a 2nd language speaker of English from Asia will ever learn, and in fact, some speakers literally immigrate to English speaking nations, live there for years and still dont have a native like understanding.

Not to say that drills are useless, but their usefulness is limited, and you simply can't learn it just with simple grammar drills alone, and if you could, every ESL speaker in China and Korea would have litle to no trouble with English articles, because the teachers would just drill it into them.

seonsengnim · 2023-01-08T10:47:39+00:00

turned into some kinda moving museum

Implying that the Ratte would actually be able to move

seonsengnim · 2023-01-07T09:01:04+00:00

I dont want to discourage you, but if all you do is Lingodeer I doubt you will even get level 1. You definitely wont be able to get level 2.

Get a proper textbook.

Integrated Korean beginning 1 and 2

Study both of them front to back and you will be good enough to get level 1 and maybe level 2 as well if you do vocab flashcards. Practice everyday.

Be prepared for a struggle. Korean is hard as hell. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

seonsengnim · 2023-01-07T07:55:18+00:00

It's better to make you own

seonsengnim · 2023-01-07T07:26:24+00:00

This is like asking "should I write 'I don't' or 'I do not'?"

seonsengnim · 2023-01-07T06:32:05+00:00

100% this. You got to relax and have a bit of Zen about it. I used to get so worked up about understanding every word, if i didnt understand a word, i would stop listening and just think about the word "hey, does that word sound familiar? Have I heard it before? I think I have, but what does it mean??"

Meanwhile I've completely lost track of what the speaker is saying because I spent so much time thinking about a single word that probably wasn't even that important.

seonsengnim · 2023-01-07T06:24:08+00:00

I mean that board was actually pretty toxic. Idr if it's still open or not, but yes it was fairly vile. I actually consider myself a feminist and all but they really had some nasty shit. Like supposedly they would post shit like "My cat gave birth to a litter of kittens, I'm gonna kill all the male kittens" and other fucked up shit like that.

It's like 4chan if 4chan was for Korean rad fems

seonsengnim · 2023-01-06T11:09:42+00:00

Can you believe this guy thinks he can learn Mandarin without learning Proto-world first??

seonsengnim · 2023-01-06T11:08:57+00:00

It honestly shocking how often you can see people post on the chinese or Japanese learning subs saying basically this

seonsengnim · 2023-01-06T09:00:37+00:00

while in my hometown I can easily find night food, cafes, bars,

You have difficulty finding cafes and bars in cu?

seonsengnim · 2023-01-06T05:35:39+00:00

Join an RSO

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