Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!cox.net!news-xfer.cox.net!p01!fed1read07.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Don Strevel" From: "Don Strevel" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan References: <4326786f$0$8993$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1126596972.265046.324600@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1h2u6wb.a993gk1d5leyoN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> <1126599454.272736.81930@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1126612049.335302.250210@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <43275b20$0$21235$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> Subject: Re: Gaigin or non-gaigin? Lines: 34 Organization: www.mysecretvegas.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 22:38:47 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.108.150.185 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: fed1read07 1128749918 68.108.150.185 (Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:38:38 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:38:38 EDT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:29933 If he will speak with friends that speak Japanese he will after a time, gain greater proficiency. He can do it!! :) he must want to achieve the goal more than he wants to be afraid of people that do not support him. If he messes up, that is ok as it is education. No one is perfect! :) -- Many Thanks, :) Don Strevel, Las Vegas, NV. info@mysecretvegas.com for an autoresponder message. "NC86" wrote in message news:43275b20$0$21235$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > 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. > > >