23
2017
Bercerita bersama Adik Ayden: Belalang dan Semut
Ayden is 3 years 5 months. He is still not attending any preschool at the moment so it is entirely my responsibility to keep up with his total development.
Children pick up a new language best below 6 years of age so I take this opportunity to teach Ayden an extra language besides English. I teach him to speak in Bahasa Malaysia. I wish I can teach him Mandarin but that is totally an alien language to me as I don’t speak, read nor write in Chinese
For children to pick up a new language, we have to constantly speak to them in that language. It is good to read together and tell stories in that particular language.
Ayden enjoys listening to stories. I often read to him. Today, we did role play. Ayden becomes the storyteller and I sit to listen.
This is the video of Ayden telling the story of the Grasshopper and Ants in Bahasa Malaysia:
Ayden @ 3Y5M
Do also watch this video of Ayden summarizing the story of The Hare and The Tortoise in Bahasa Malaysia
Ayden @ 3Y5M
Well done to Mummy. Bravo Ayden. Maybe I should speak BM to Jamie too. Get him to learn more language.
Pandainya, budak ni. So comel too. Losing his baby fat, I see…growing up fast.
His brother and father and speak Mandarin occasionally with him, I think he can pick up too!
Aiyoyo, your little boy soooooo cute!! Muacks!
Smart boy!! In Malaysia we really have to teach the kids a few languages….
Like in my family, Mandarin, English, Hokkien are the must.. As for BM, I leave it to the teacher :p
Yay to Ayden! So fluent in BM when so young. I agree with CY’s suggestion, Ethan can converse in Mandarin with Ayden so Ayden will pick up Mandarin quickly too.
This boy is a genius! Now boleh cakap English, BM and Puthonghua next…..