It is better to save some money and become a naturalized English-speaking country. You are happy, so are we!
If you insist on disagreeing, your daughter-in-law will follow suit and waste money.
Three-year-olds can't even speak their own words fluently. When they are sent to the training class to learn English, they ask what you can learn. This is called an apple and that is called an orange. I am a boy and she is a girl. My father calls me dad and my mother calls me mom. That's what I taught you. Isn't that retarded? You still expect to speak fluent English through the training class. Wake up.
Three years old is a language sensitive period, yes, but sending it to training classes, especially English training classes, is nonsense. Not to mention the level of teachers in training classes, it is even more troublesome if you meet black people. We have such training courses here. Parents are eager to speak English like their mother tongue. I am also curious to listen to a class. As a result, a black man came, Lickitung wore slippers and shorts, and the children below croaked behind the sun and the moon. I was drunk, too, and I came out after listening for less than ten minutes.
It can only be said that children's money is so easy to earn now that anyone can share it. Parents are also throwing money everywhere to keep their children from losing at the starting line, but the real effect is minimal.
To learn English well, we should start with the original picture books, and then watch the original English cartoons, such as the English version of Little Pink Pig, instead of the Chinese version of Page. Each episode is wonderful for five minutes, and the daily dialogue scenes are very rich. Persistence is very effective.
I have always believed that there is no right or wrong on the question of what kind of education to provide children, only the educational concept of parents. You and your daughter-in-law are in agreement on whether children should enroll in English classes. It is not a question of who is right or wrong, but whether you can find an answer that both sides think is right.
Before the child goes to kindergarten, our family also thinks that we can't let the child learn English too early, for fear that his exposure to English will affect his learning pinyin in primary school. But later, for various reasons, I had to bite the bullet and enroll him in a kindergarten with an English learning atmosphere. The result was beyond our expectation. Kindergarten is not eager to instill "ABC" learning, but begins to input English language to children from the perspective of English dialogue environment, and then guides children to output language through interaction with teachers. In this teaching mode, children study happily. After a semester, their interest in English has greatly improved, and a few simple English words have popped up from time to time at home. More importantly, children have developed the habit of reading English picture books, singing English songs and speaking English sentences every day. To tell the truth, I don't regret letting my child learn English at the age of three.
But then again, the reason why you don't agree with your daughter-in-law's idea is probably the same as our original concern. We are worried that children learning English too early will increase their learning burden and affect their future study in compulsory education. I think this concern can be completely eliminated as long as children choose a formal institution to study English.
Professional English learning institutions are no longer forced to recognize and recite words as before, but focus on cultivating children's interest in English first. Children learning English with interest is no longer a burden, but a pleasure.
Regarding whether it will increase children's learning burden, I think if children are not under the pressure of the senior high school entrance examination and are interested in learning, it is not a burden, but learning while playing. It's like sending a child to an interest class. There is no competition and no assessment. Every time a child attends class, he gains something and is willing to touch new things. This is the most precious learning opportunity. As parents, we have the obligation and responsibility to create such opportunities for our children.
There is nothing wrong with you, but you have a different opinion. When you were three years old, you didn't say that you had to learn English, and you could learn it without learning it, so you didn't agree to learn it. There is nothing wrong with this, but your views are different. And if you learn English too early, you will forget it sooner or later. The question is, what is precocity? There are no standards in academia.
Daughter-in-law is also right, because she thinks children need to study, and English is the key subject in the future, so they should study in advance. Language learning is not afraid of early, because the earlier you learn, the less influenced by your mother tongue. So when my daughter was 4 years old, she signed up for an English class.
You don't agree. Lack of money is the main reason. If you have money, can you learn? Just learn, after all, there is still no money.
All learning is valuable, but we must grasp two core points: First, choose excellent teachers, and excellent teachers can make children interested for a long time. The other thing is not to take too many courses. My choice is Chinese, math and English plus a quiet time. Some choose to cultivate themselves, and some give them to institutions so that children will not be too tired.
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It mainly depends on your family environment and future study environment. If you plan to go to a private bilingual school in the future, your study will be good. If it's a second, third, fourth and fifth tier city. It's no use learning so little so early. Because a foreign language is a language that is important to use, it will soon be forgotten without a language environment. Most parents follow suit and others learn. They don't understand. Why study? What is the purpose of learning this? Value? Meaning?
3-6 years old is the best time for children to learn language skills, but it depends on their acceptance. It is better to buy an oral English practice machine for children to learn, and then send it to a bilingual kindergarten when the children have the ability to understand, without making any noise.
Don't argue, have a good discussion, tell your own truth, and then ask your child if he wants to learn. If the child doesn't want to learn, don't force her. Otherwise, it will hurt your memory.
Children learn languages quickly when they are young. If conditions permit, children also like to study, and can enroll in English classes. Husband and wife have something to discuss, all for the good of their children.