學法語--女兒篇

Maman étudiés française avec mon fils et mon fille.
最近每天晚飯後和兒子女兒一起學法語。
女兒一年級時進了法文班，半天是在法語世界。法文，math, social study全部用法語上課。
當時，所在學校才開始試行了3年法文班，也就是說那時4年級以上還沒有法文班。校方開動員會鼓勵家長們為子女報名進未來的法文班。校方表示隻要有20名以上學生就能開班。當然法文班是如期開辦了。同一年級(共有70多個孩子)中僅有的4個中國孩子都被家長送進了法文班。中國的爸爸媽媽們都認為不花錢多學一門外語是件多好的事啊。
2年來，有過3個外國孩子因為跟不上轉到一般的英文班了。認識的外國人家長都說對孩子的自尊心打擊很大。
每次的家長會上，不懂法文的家長們關心的最多的是如何幫助孩子的法文。老師說鼓勵孩子在家說法語，聽不懂也要努力去聽孩子讀法文，等等，等等。
3年級開學後，家長們開始有點沉不住氣了。看看孩子的數學測驗分數不錯，可是總有老師的標注：“應用題是在老師的英文講解指導下”。
現在才明白熟悉的幾個外國人家長為何沒有讓孩子進法文班。她們曾對我說過：“不想幫孩子homework”。

[Ruby@Cuisine]

說老實話，我覺得這麽早就開始學法語並且有些基礎課程還用法語來上並非好事。語言是一門工具，如今反倒讓語言成為障礙物了，實在可惜。很多當地人都在高中或者大學才開始學另一門外語。英語比什麽都重要。那些法語老師讓孩子在家多講法語，這怎麽可能呢？家長不懂法語，他們跟誰去練習？尤其是中國人的孩子，又要母語，又要英語的已經很不容易了，卻還要學法語。唉。都說孩子可塑性強，但我覺得打好基礎更重要些。

[小鳳凰]

是不是在加拿大有的區域是說法語的？明年我女兒也將要開始學法語了，總覺得法語聽起來很柔軟很好聽的。

[夏日餘暉]

My LG thinks it's good for kid learning more when they are young. But it's still different from their learning Chinese. My kids spoke Japanese only when they came here, and during the first 2 or 3 years. Then we started speaking Chinese and English at the same time.
I think another foreign language is too much to them.
However, what I can do now is to help them, and don't let them give up.
And lots of work to me and my kids.

[sinead4273]

Guess what, the French immersion school, my little guy is in is No. 1 in Windsor, also, top 10 at least in Ontario. but you know, 80% of them are immigrants. Chines, of course are the most. Chinese, even sell their house, and buy one close to school, so, their kids can go into this school......

Well, I certainly know what it is like to help them to prepare and understand home work.

My LG wants me to move my little guy out of this school. I said, so many Chinese are there. And their parents are not even fluent in English, let alone French. So, what gives me the right to be lazy, to move our little guy out.

But lots of extra work.