[etni] [FWD: Re: It's not haval, it's a shame]]
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Subject: Re: It's not haval, it's a shame]
From: "elizabeth yuval" <maore29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Haval only to worry about it. My kids, and they were not alone in this,
by the way, spoke 2 kinds of English. Home English, which meant that
man was man and not men, and th was th and not z or s, and school
English, where they spoke with the same butchered accent the rest of
the kids did. My mother grew up speaking Yiddish at home and English
with the rest of the world and was privileged in beinf fluent in 2
languages.
We have Czech friends who had no choice but to be fluent in German
and then Russian as well as Czech. My Bedouin butcher and garage
mechanic and a lot of their local village patrons pepper their speech
with
Hebrew words and somehow I don't think it hurts their Arabic linguistic
ability. It's all so subjective as to be impossible to classify, but I
can't
see any reason to get up in arms over it. I have no idea of what
metapelet is in American English, although a more recent American
than I could probably tell me. As far as I know there is no gan hova in
America, although things may have changed, and it is a lot easier to
say "yoledet" than "a woman who has just given birth."
The ship will not sink if we go to the makolet or kupat holim (Which is
what, in English, by the way? Or rather, which was what before the
American medical system began calling them HMOs?).
Have a safe week
Eliz
You wrote:
> I read the article. Those who get the Jerusalem Post will have read
> the article by the speech professionals two weeks ago. I believe that
> that article contradicts the one written by this "professional" Mixing
> languages in not a problem. The child who has used "limchoking"
> has learned the English grammar perfectly and has used a word he
> just did not know in English and made it English. Most of our children
> who live almost entirely in Hebrew speaking environments will not go
> around speaking English on a native speaker level even if "Her" child
> did so.
> Each of our children is an individual. Some of them learn languages
> better than others. Teaching a musical instrument at an early age and
> practicing it early will not make all children virtuosos.
> My mother and many of her peers grew up in homes where only
> Yiddish was spoken. There was no mixing of the languages. To
> this day my mother cannot speak Yiddish. At all.
> I read English books to my children every day. I have three who
> speak English and two who do not. The difference? How much
> contact the children had with friends. The more social the child, the
> LESS English he spoke.
> Just food for thought. I hate articles that make parents and for
> that matter, teachers, feel guilty about their practises.
> I think you may continue saying "Makolet" since that is what it
> is called here.
> It's late. Layla Tov!
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