TokyoBoglehead wrote: ↑Sat May 20, 2023 10:41 am
If you speak English at home and consume mostly English media, then you are most of the way there.
Academic English skills can be supplemented at home or through afterschool activities and programs.
You haven't had to deal with teenagers yet, have you?
My advice is hammer the English in to them while they are still young and pliable.
After that, sometimes you are just delighted to get more than a word or two out of them...continuing to improve their English can become a real battle.
LOL, Yeah, Beanhead knows well. Been there done that, still doing it!
TokyoBoglehead wrote: ↑Sat May 20, 2023 10:41 am
If you speak English at home and consume mostly English media, then you are most of the way there.
Academic English skills can be supplemented at home or through afterschool activities and programs.
You haven't had to deal with teenagers yet, have you?
My advice is hammer the English in to them while they are still young and pliable.
After that, sometimes you are just delighted to get more than a word or two out of them...continuing to improve their English can become a real battle.
Well not my own definitely, but time will fix that.
We don't speak Japanese at home so it's pretty normalized. He goes to an English only daycare on Saturdays and watches only English content. 80% of his books are English, etc.
