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Hope you are doing great!!
Yeah I'm Bilingual! And now raising my kid to be bilingual. English is not our primary language. We use 'Bangla' as our native language in our daily life. But English is mandatory in schools from the very first level. So we have to learn English and our native language simultaneously from our childhood. Our parents have done this and it's our time.
To be honest I sometimes find it very difficult. But there is no way coz of the school system.
As a parent of a 2.4 years old son, I started to teach him alphabet and some basic words of both language. The problem is as we use our native language in daily life, he usually get confused what language or word he have to use. I know people all around the world who are bilingual or use multiple language faces this same problem.
Let me give some example!
Yesterday I was asking him "E for what''. He replied "E for Dim"! 'Dim is the meaning of Egg in our language.
Another example I can give you which is more practical and I face more problem with it. He sometimes use English words like 'Banana' or 'Duck' in daily life. People who don't have the literacy on English like our 'helping hand in our home', they don't get it what he is saying. And I have to tell him to use our native language instead. This thing makes him more confused what he should use at what point.
People also teach 'Arabic' simultaneously to their kids here because of our religious perspective. I still did not start to do that!
There is another problem I face recently. As there are two different major types of Educational System-Bangla medium and English medium. Kids who study on English medium usually speak in English in their daily life also. So when my son mix with them he got even more confused what he should talk! There are many other problem in this system. I will elaborate this another day.
But I know he will gradually understand and cope with it as we also learn this way. There is some advantage of being bilingual also. As you can see here I am on Steemit and communicating in English easily.
I hope he will pass this 'confused' stage very soon and cope himself up with two different language.
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