NC86 のメッセージ:

> etaka wrote:
> > That's an interesting situation NC86's student is in, her parents have
> > letting her conversational Japanese slip that way. My kids can now have
> > spontaneous simple arguments with each other in English "It's mine!"
> > "No, it's mine!" but I don't see us not speaking to them in Japanese
> > soon. I doubt my wife will ever give up speaking Japanese as they grow
> > up.
>
> She said her father was korean, so that's why she said she moved there.
> If I was the father in that situation I would have made sure she didn't
> lose the Japanese language ability.
>
> In fact I don't understand why so many international couples allow their
> children to become mono-lingual. A half-Japanese friend of mine was
> quite bitter that his mother never taught him Japanese; it was a
> mono-lingual English household. He is trying to catch up now but will
> never reach native level.

It is quite easy for a child in a foreign evironment to become
monolingual. We are not home schooling our children in Japanese (on top
of their other studies in an English speaking environment), and they
have no Japanese friends or acquaintences. The Japanese my children
will know as they grow up will probably be limited to what we speak at
home, and my wife doesn't talk about serious subjects like science,
economics, history or anti-discrimination in either language. The only
way for them to become mature speakers of Japanese will be through
formal language study or to go back to Japan.