and when said young children leave for college they keep in touch with their parents by texting in english, but like now it doesn't feel like their parents because it's english
i think this is a common immigrant cultural sentiment but it’s very odd to me to watch parents speak to their young children in english regardless of ethnicity......all families should have their own language english is for the public sphere
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yeah texting does change the game for lots of ppl
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Does this apply to dogs too? (People speaking to their dogs not dogs speaking to their young children)
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lol the ppl who have dogs are usually the same ppl who only speak english i didn’t know anyone who had a dog as a kid
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"i'm helping my parents practice and get better at english" - me, rationalizing not learning vietnamese at home
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when i was growing up they’d told people it would confuse us too much if they spoke to us in a different language from school so at around 5 years old my parents hard switched from Dutch to English, and I never got to learn Bahasa... they reserved that to discuss secret stuff
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It’s kinda difficult when the kids are exposed only to English at school
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Disagree. Parents spoke to me in English and enforced that I also know the local language of the state we lived in (in India). Ethnic language was different. I'm thankful to them
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i agree with you. my folks forced themselves to speak broken english to me growing up. sad thing now is that there’s a significant language barrier when either of us need to express certain complex ideas.
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