My Children's Speech;Behavior; Barack Obama's English

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[StevePoppers]

Please don't stifle your children's individuality. Try your best to show them the path you desire for them, but let them walk their own.

[laoshu505000]

@StevePoppers Indeed

[jovenATL]

Parents are not the only factor that influence how children learn to speak. In fact, peers are the MOST influential. Your kids, despite your efforts to raise them multi-lingual, are going to stray towards the social environment. When other kids are speaking English, they're gonna lean toward English. You're really gonna have to try hard to make them interested in Japanese and Arabic, things that no one else (besides you two) are using.

[laoshu505000]

I agree.

[mobiustripped]

Great video. A couple of things I think you left out when talking about the way your kids speak: TV, and other people in their community (friends, teachers). For example, I speak with a different accent than my family but the same as my friends from school (close to so-called "Standard American English"). What do you think about these other factors, and will you address them?

[laoshu505000]

Yea, most definitely..those are part of the problem as well. That would be a whole new video talking about that other stuff.

[SuperOpenminded]

5:05 " they try to make us lookn bad."

Man, I feel the same. I am a Muslim Arab from Jerusalem, Palestine. And I feel the western media tries to make Muslims and Arabs looks like EVIL TERRORISTS.

Very nice video.

Best greetings,

Your brother from Jerusalem

[unabomberman]

Uh...what exactly do you mean by "heathen" or "demonic"?

That sounded kind of weird to me.

Are you using those terms broadly in a methaphorical context, or are you being, you know, textual?

[aeoization]

I like the way you speak English. English is not my mother tongue but I understand everything clearly and without problems, a lot easier than any British Received Pronunciation we learn at school or the way they speak English in American movies..

[leshark]

@laoshu505000 do you have children?

sorry such a personal question :P

[leshark]

with my culture and customs especially from my heritage, we speak very differently to family, friends and guests... when i speak to my family i sound like a stereotypical indian, its very qiuet and polite, with no slang or swearing. when i speak to guests or family friends its sounds somewhat posh, and when i speak to my friends its very chilled, lots of slang. cos the secondary school i went to was a "ghetto" school. so naturally for the 5 years i spent there i picked up all of that.

[Kazuya3000]

I totally agree with everything you said,Mr.Moses. I believe that it's time we break these cycles by teaching our children to love everyone. The Holy Bible says love covers a multitude of sins. Btw if you don't mind me asking, what religion are you? If it's too personal you don't have to answer.

[shtefiko]

Great video!

[meyiyiyi55]

good sumation.makes me feel like saying halleluya.

[LMB222]

It's not rough, it's a necessity. We had to resort to a trick: we hired a babysitter who pretended to be German and not speak a word Polish. She spoke English with our kids, and that finally was the breakthrough.

It felt like cheating our kids, but we all feel that was justified.

[jovenATL]

I had a professor in undergrad for a Spanish class who was from Chile, married to a Spaniard woman. They were trying to raise their child bilingually in Atlanta. He said she was at the age where she stopped speaking Spanish so they basically 'forced' (not literally) her to speak Spanish at home (like not giving her food until she asked for it in Spanish). She may think it's rough now, but when she is a fully bilingual adult she was be very grateful for that experience.