Do you assume this is a virtuous concept?
My cousin watches these two small kids 6 and 4 years old. Sometimes I come over and babysit w/ her. I have only be around them a few times but they seem to like me a lot and it's explicit to anyone around. Anyway, the kids are half black and half white and there mom is from Europe. She speaks Slovak and English too. Usually the kids would know how to speak in that parents lauguage but these ones don't. I figure she doesn't have much time. Would I be a good conception to teach the kids a little Slovak? Like greetings, colors, numbers, days of week, etc... I can't speak Slovak myself but I've found this really cool website that could help. How do you estimate the mother will feel about it?
Simple, ask her.
Ask her first. She might be planning to tutor them how to speak Slovak when they get older or she might not even want them to learn how to speak Slovak.
Make sure you hold her approval before teaching them this. The last entity you want is for her to get mad at you just because you be trying to help.
Answers: Talk to their mother first - maybe she have other reasons and even, if she has no time for it, she can help you (e.g. if you don't speak Slovak, you most potential won't be able to teach them correct pronunciation). In general I suppose it is a good idea - I've heard that growing up bilingual make people smarter and even, if they are not bilingual (i.e. they don't use both languages everyday) learning another vernacular will help them to learn yet another one, if they ever have need of it (and children are better at learning new languages), plus it will make them more aware of other cultures and their own heritage
Yes, as long as there mother if fine next to it. She may not like the idea. Or be planning to do it on her own. If she says sure or something afterwards go right ahead. As long as you know it your OK.
Ask the mom if she minds before you start to teach them.I intuitively wouldn't mind.I am raising my kids to be bilingual but some others aren't so open to it.
I agree with Jasmin. Also, nothing personal, but I don't estimate you are qualified to teach them. I don't think getting your information from a website is good plenty, even if it's a good website. You might teach them the wrong way, for example, if you can't pronounce the words correctly. You may not be effective of pronouncing the words properly. For example, I'm Jewish and have no trouble pronouncing the "ch" sound, but most non-Jews can't do this. I took Spanish for 4 years and cannot come close to pronouncing the "rr" sound, but every Spanish personality I've ever met can easily pronounce it.
If it was something other than a foreign talking, like math or history, I think that would be a little different, but tutoring them the foreign language that is their heritage (or 1/2 of their heritage) is more personal. You may be insulting the mother by doing this, implying that you, not even knowing Slovak, can do a better position - or implying that she is a bad mother for not teaching them the writing. Since Slovak isn't widely used in the U.S., she isn't doing anything bad by not teaching it to them - they'd probably be profusely better off working on math and reading skills.
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Simple, ask her.
Ask her first. She might be planning to tutor them how to speak Slovak when they get older or she might not even want them to learn how to speak Slovak.
Make sure you hold her approval before teaching them this. The last entity you want is for her to get mad at you just because you be trying to help.
Answers: Talk to their mother first - maybe she have other reasons and even, if she has no time for it, she can help you (e.g. if you don't speak Slovak, you most potential won't be able to teach them correct pronunciation). In general I suppose it is a good idea - I've heard that growing up bilingual make people smarter and even, if they are not bilingual (i.e. they don't use both languages everyday) learning another vernacular will help them to learn yet another one, if they ever have need of it (and children are better at learning new languages), plus it will make them more aware of other cultures and their own heritage
Yes, as long as there mother if fine next to it. She may not like the idea. Or be planning to do it on her own. If she says sure or something afterwards go right ahead. As long as you know it your OK.
Ask the mom if she minds before you start to teach them.I intuitively wouldn't mind.I am raising my kids to be bilingual but some others aren't so open to it.
I agree with Jasmin. Also, nothing personal, but I don't estimate you are qualified to teach them. I don't think getting your information from a website is good plenty, even if it's a good website. You might teach them the wrong way, for example, if you can't pronounce the words correctly. You may not be effective of pronouncing the words properly. For example, I'm Jewish and have no trouble pronouncing the "ch" sound, but most non-Jews can't do this. I took Spanish for 4 years and cannot come close to pronouncing the "rr" sound, but every Spanish personality I've ever met can easily pronounce it.
If it was something other than a foreign talking, like math or history, I think that would be a little different, but tutoring them the foreign language that is their heritage (or 1/2 of their heritage) is more personal. You may be insulting the mother by doing this, implying that you, not even knowing Slovak, can do a better position - or implying that she is a bad mother for not teaching them the writing. Since Slovak isn't widely used in the U.S., she isn't doing anything bad by not teaching it to them - they'd probably be profusely better off working on math and reading skills.
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