LL-L "Language use" 2004.09.07 (12) [E]

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A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
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From: burgdal32admin <burgdal32 at pandora.be>
Subject: LL-L "Language use" 2004.09.07 (03) [E]

> From: john feather <johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk>
> Subject: Introduction
>
> Edwin, your posting gave me the impression that you wanted to learn
> Mennonite Low German in order to teach your children. I think that the
> best
> educational opinion is still that you shouldn't try to do this, or even
> speak to them except in your own mother tongue, until they have a good
> command of both languages.
You can teach children three or four languages at the same time. Just
stick to one
  language / one person , and the child will have no big problems. We
have such cases in Belgium a lot of times.
>  You will actually learn Mennonite from them! If
> I'm wrong about this I'm sure other people on the list will correct
> me. I
> think it's important for children to be able to communicate with their
> grandparents, and it probably helps them if each of their parents can
> talk
> to their in-laws. I feel very sorry for the monolingual parents of a
> German
> friend of mine because her sons refused to try to communicate with
> them and
> she wasn't firm enough about it.
>
groetjes
luc vanbrabant
oekene

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