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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 474911" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Yes, thanks all... I guess that must be it, that English is now his "second language" (chauvinistically, I am reluctant to admit this <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />) Actually, having said that his structures in French were perfectly correct, I have since remembered that someone told me he systematically uses masculine gender for nouns (French has masculine and feminine, of course) so in fact he is disadvantaged in French by speaking English and having come to it late also... I have also been told categorically that I should drop English with him and speak only French with him... this I won't do because it would be too tough a habit to break for us both, because I do very much want him to speak English and because it's just natural to use your mother tongue when speaking to your child.</p><p>What I am slightly concerned about is that he does not seem to add to or develop his English, although I do regularly read to him in English and he occasionally watches videos in English (though I have read that passive input does not lead to active language acquisition; I think there is some controversy about that). Despite having me correct him all the time now with "saw", "went", etc, he simply does not assimilate them. This was the point of questioning, really. </p><p>Yes, forgot you were a specialist, buddy <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Do you see bilingual children as being in some ways disadvantaged by the two languages?</p><p>What was your other language, Keista? Do you now still practise the other language?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 474911, member: 11227"] Yes, thanks all... I guess that must be it, that English is now his "second language" (chauvinistically, I am reluctant to admit this :)) Actually, having said that his structures in French were perfectly correct, I have since remembered that someone told me he systematically uses masculine gender for nouns (French has masculine and feminine, of course) so in fact he is disadvantaged in French by speaking English and having come to it late also... I have also been told categorically that I should drop English with him and speak only French with him... this I won't do because it would be too tough a habit to break for us both, because I do very much want him to speak English and because it's just natural to use your mother tongue when speaking to your child. What I am slightly concerned about is that he does not seem to add to or develop his English, although I do regularly read to him in English and he occasionally watches videos in English (though I have read that passive input does not lead to active language acquisition; I think there is some controversy about that). Despite having me correct him all the time now with "saw", "went", etc, he simply does not assimilate them. This was the point of questioning, really. Yes, forgot you were a specialist, buddy :) Do you see bilingual children as being in some ways disadvantaged by the two languages? What was your other language, Keista? Do you now still practise the other language? [/QUOTE]
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