After careful calculation, we have given Ms. Ye (my daughter) English enlightenment for one year.
My wife and I are still very satisfied with the results from the child's 8 months to now 1 year,1month.
Many friends think that with my father as a professional translator in our family, English enlightenment is definitely much easier than ordinary families.
But the truth is, although I have an advantage in my major, all babies are the same. We have all encountered the difficulties that young babies will encounter on the road to enlightenment: tearing books, biting books, sitting still, not talking, shouting, only letting parents read English, not reading English Chinese documents, repeatedly reading only one book without reading other books, grandparents not supporting, understanding and cooperating.
Moreover, it is precisely because of the translator's professional background that he took some detours at first and entered some misunderstandings. For example, for children's picture books and graded reading materials, I always want to find the best and spend a lot of time studying these.
But all the children in the world are the same, and they are unreasonable babies. No matter how many big-name picture book toys are useless, they are all oil and salt! Later, I also thought about it. It's natural to have children. Just follow your parents' wishes. In the end, it must be a chicken flying and a dog jumping, and nothing can be caught.
In fact, after this year, I realized more clearly that the most important thing in English enlightenment is: start+persistence.
For 95% families, what materials to choose, what reading pen to use and whether to teach as a foreign teacher are all secondary. The most important thing is to start, and the most important thing is to persist.
[Sobbing] [Sobbing] [Sobbing ]02 I am most afraid of worrying too much and I can't start. It is for the good of my children to comfort myself.
Fortunately, after a while, I realized the problem.
Then the "stocking" mode began, and the problem of materials was no longer entangled. As long as the content that children can understand can be used as enlightenment materials, the most important thing is to start doing it with children.
So later, I spent a little 10,000 yuan to buy all kinds of original picture books and electronic products, giving full play to the advantages of professional children's picture books and graded books and attracting children's attention.
I will also go online to find different resources and tutorials, and make handicrafts and picture books with Ms. Ye and her mother. Moreover, I found that the whole family's handcrafting process is really a very good parent-child time. Although Ms. Ye Can can't help now, she always makes trouble, but it's great that the family is happy and busy to finish one thing together.
The final result still makes us very satisfied. Ms. Ye first established her interest in English. During this year, she didn't reject English, and her cognitive ability of English gradually improved, from figurative words to abstract numbers to current phrases. I can read 300+ characters at the age of one and a half, and now I can say to myself according to the context: Excuse me, Dad/Where are you, Mom/Good night, Grandma.
Later, more and more readers and friends asked me what materials I used, how much time I read English to my children every day, how to pronounce a word and so on. These questions are asked backstage every day.
At first, I answered seriously and wanted to help you solve the problem, but then I suddenly realized that everyone might have fallen into a misunderstanding like when I first started: I always wanted to start when I was ready, and I always wanted to enlighten my children after learning well.
But I really don't recommend this. The correct way is to start quickly, especially the younger the child, the earlier and the more active he is.
No matter how much information you have, you must start with the simplest words. Say as much as you can, it won't. You can find a small notebook to write it down and find a time to solve it in a unified way every week.
Too many people just think too much and do too little. To put it bluntly, children's ability to imitate pronunciation is a few blocks behind that of adults. As long as the parents open their mouths, even if they open their mouths to follow the recorded audio, the children can quietly imitate it in this process.
Don't worry about anything, just start talking to the children. The only thing to remember at all times is persistence, persistence and persistence. I said in the road map of English enlightenment that English enlightenment is not a matter of one year or two. The first is enlightenment, followed by English learning, which will probably last until the children graduate from high school. This is a marathon, and persistence is the most important thing!
A year has passed, and we have not only seen the achievements of children's English enlightenment. What's even more surprising is that Ms. Ye's Chinese developed earlier than other children of the same age. Now suddenly, I have the mood to write poetry. Sing us a song "Into the Wine", "The Red Army is not afraid of expedition" and "Yongmei" at any time, but every time I caught my father off guard, I didn't have time to video, just recorded a lot of audio.