It's not that Pete is late. It's that he will simply have a harder time, which means that if Lucy does everything he does in terms of language learning she will move even further. His potential is being limited but it still exists. Just like you can learn to draw at age 40, it is recommended you do when you are a little kid because that will expedite the process significantly. I personally find myself learning words every single day in English since it is not my native language but it is still the language I use the most with other Native English speakers. To expand one's vocabulary, reading is a great tool, but new words should still be written down and learned separately from the book to add even more context in order to make the word stick. I'm currently learning Japanese and find it quite easy to learn new vocabulary when I have something to connect it to using stories and images.
Let’s remember that, Poor Pete was not given the same exposure to print rich environments as Lucy. Poor Pete missed out on the fundamental skills of vocabulary for language development. If provided with these skills under intense intervention, best practices explicit systematic and cumulative instructions, Pete will catch up.
Being a bilingual teacher myself I found it very worrying that people still think that only native adults can teach language 'properly'. It has to do with proficiency. I know a lot of native English people that have lower proficiency in English compared to bilingual individuals. In today's connected world these language myths should be long gone!
It's not a myth, is a generalization because IN THE MAJORITY of the cases it works this way. What you are talking is about exceptions: they confirm the rule. I believe I have a large vocabulary of english words and I live outside my native country for over 20 years, but compared with my own native language and it's nuances my understanding of english is quite limited. People should stop thinking that exceptions change a rule.
@@allwhatilove914 I have teach my self to speak English and write to. As a second language. But I used more In my everyday Life now. The problem I have encountered is that people tend to minimize you knowledge and skills. Just for the simple reason that you didn't learned in school. That you didn't go to a institution to be teach how to speak. The lenguage. But my vocabulary in English sometimes are to much for the native speaker Because I learned from tv documentary's history book's historical writing poetry and phylosofer's so my English is a mix of old English and New English. Most of the time I have native speaker's on the search bar. On Google. Because they arguing that the words they just heard from me are not English words. LoL but then they just try to gaslighting the situation. To pin it on my second language. 😂 When they see that the words are part of the English language.
@@kw2080 not everyone is going to survive, sadly. Kids learn from us. Have you ever explained your feelings to a child? That’s how they learn. They learn to express themselves through the circle their born into.
I’m a Filipino living in Japan but my daughter’s 1st language is English. Based on my own experience as a mom of bilingual daughter, it is very critical to communicate to a child from birth. Thinking that they don’t understand what we are saying but they are trying to communicate with a smile & giggle. Language input plays a very important role so later on you can hear the output. At 2, she can switch her language from English to Japanese when she’s talking to her father without any confusion. One more thing, sitting with your child while watching educational videos and reading them stories with big expressions also play a big role. Explain things that are new to them for a greater understanding & vocabularies. Boys most of the time have late development when it comes to talking but physically active as compared to girls (not in general).
@@japanvirtuallearning4268 that’s a good question. I’ve met lots of Filipino moms blaming themselves or being blamed by their children for not teaching them English and not for not teaching them Filipino (Tagalog). My daughter can communicate with anyone in every time we go back to Pinas (Phils.) for a short vacation because English is our second language. Most Filipinos can speak English though not everyone can be as fluent as native speakers but it’s something that Filipinos can be proud of. Lastly, learning English at home help us save money, much economical (kuripot lang po)😉😆
This reminds me of my daughter and non-verbal autistic son, despite their environment and influences being much more similar. I definitely think Pete will likely find ways to compensate for the areas he lacks. I'm positive there are plenty of successful Petes'. Lucy just has a measurable advantage.
@@livelovelife32 I agree, but only to an extent. While it is important to have children be around well spoken friends, it shouldn’t be the only goal. Simply put, don’t gate-keep your children’s friends based on their vocabulary. If one of your children’s friends can’t speak very well, don’t make your cut ties with them or spend less time around them. And if your child is in an environment where most kids can’t speak well, the solution should be also putting them in an environment where most kids speak well. I’m not sure if you thought that parents should keep their kids away from worse speaking kids, and I’m not trying to claim that. Rather, I would like to star that this should not be the case in any situation. Have a good day.
I do think non-verbal autistic kids generally have more options to communicate than children who weren't given the environment to help them understand language. When I go non-verbal (I'm autistic, too) I can use sign language, send messages with my phone or write my thoughts on paper. With a weaker understanding of language, I would struggle with all those options equally. In stead, when I go non-verbal, the only thing I can't do is speak.
This is why I chose to care for my kids full time. I took the first 5 years seriously. Play, sing, talk spend lots of time with your little ones. No one is going to care more about your children than you.
I love that you folks present an argument, and then explore other possibilities. It's a strong premise and I think it has merit, especially in a society that values language so much. I do think that Pete would certainly compensate in unexpected ways. For what he may lack in solidifying the depth of his language abilities, he may end up strengthening non verbal communication skills. Perhaps a stronger reliance on facial recognition and even possibly empathy to make up for it? Yeah it's all speculation, but I think above all else, children will naturally explore their world. Peters going to learn SOMETHING.
Yes. He'll learn something. Hopefully, not just how to manipulate with his words, to get away w/ and lying,* about his BULLYING behavior. And worse behaviors as he never matures throughout his Adulthood.
I loved talking to my son. At age 3 he took a Star Wars 20 page picture book from me and read it page by page perfectly. He's a teacher. I also later had a great stint teaching ESL classes (I did take language classes in school)
in my opinion is never too late to learn new language . that's remember me a story for a video long ago wich an old man speak english very fast because had a crush in a old women who speak only english. He find a motivation. as always excellent quality and content video .
Thanks aymane for the good feedback! For a new language its definitely never too late, as long as you learned any language (can be also sign language) properly before age 12.
It is easier when young though ! :) But it's never too late to learn indeed, it's really good for the brain to be stimulated as we grow older as it reduces memory troubles later or other intellectual deficiency that can come with age.
I agree with you, but it's a new language besides the mother tongue. Children need a native language to establish their mental capabilities and to understand the world and them selves. In most cases, it's too late if a child has been poorly educated for a long time.
this is one of the main reasons my husband and I decided together One of us should stay with our daughter for the first 3 years of her life at home. Husband had a career path with more benefits and growth singular path so I chose to stay. Baby is only 3 months we been reading few books to her daily and say everything as we are doing. She enjoys having talking to us in her own sounds lol.
Sounds like my story. I quit my job and I stay home with my 3 and 4 year old. We used to do flash cards and lessons, they both caught on quick. Now we talk and go places. I like to see them interact with other kids and learn fro Them too.
There are different types of intelligence, skills and mental plasticity does not end with childhood, so yes, there's great hope for Pete! Pete could be a great athlete, he could be a great dancer, singer, composer, methematician (musica and math have their own language) or he could have caught up ideas and language from other sources than the nanny, with the right motivation and the right support Pete will be fine and learn loads, at the same time Lucy could become discouraged, could be limited by an introverted nature that does not allow her to express herself verbally as much as others, this assuming that both children have no learning or developmental imparement. So there are many, many nuances to child development and parents could be discouraged by someone tellign them that their child can't focus (for example) because he didn't receive adequate linguistic tools in time. There are rare extreme examples of learning disabilities due to total language imparement but that's not what usually happens in average lives.The presentation is nice but a little limitative and it paints a black and white picture of the issue (quite literally, haha), also the nanny with a traditional cone hat is a little (a lot) patronising, where I live in Asia only very old people, usually gardeners, wear them...or tourists, it's not a thing, seriously. Anyway I do appreciate the channel and the videos.
Today I was at a grocery store narrating and talking to my 4 month old son. A passerby asked if he is talking back to me. I answered no (like duh) and kept talking to my baby about the things we are buying. I did the same with my first and she has a large vocabulary 💙 Annisa
My wife has been doing this with our 18 month old since he was born and says people look at her like she's crazy 🤣. Now he has a vocab of hundreds of words and often speaks in sentences 😁
The video does a good job showing the importance of language and talking/reading to your child. That being said, there are genetic factors that play a role I language development and besides that, most studies show that developing language earlier only has a very small correlation with intelligence later in life. Another study showed that kids who struggle developing language early almost always end up at the same development level as early developers by age 4-5. PARENTS IF YOUR CHILD SEEMS A LITTLE BEHIND DONT PANIC (obviously talk to their doc but most likely they're perfectly normal and won't end up behind other kids) YOUR PROBABLY NOT A BAD PARENT 🙂✌️
Welp, glad I could get some validation here about why my kids have speech delays. I spent most of my time too exhaused to talk and too exhausted to take them out to social situations. It seriously annoys me people keep saying "it's not your fault" when I know it absolutely is. They clearly began to improve once I started reading to them on a regular basis and clearly stagnated when I stopped again. (It's hard to read when they fight if they're too close to each other and I'm trying to keep the baby from ripping the pages of a library book!) They're 3 so I suppose there is still time for them to recover some lost ground. I have a better handle on things now so maybe the baby will have better luck with his language development.
Thank you for your honesty. And yes there still is time. I wish you all the strength and energy to do what you know is right. It’s not always possible, but we can try. And if we fail, let’s try again tomorrow. I wish you well! Jonas
It's definitely completely possible for Pete to catch up. English is my first language now, but I only formally started learning it at age 6. Just constant exposure to the language and daily use put English at the forefront, and I'm definitely not any behind native speakers who began younger at this point.
Did your family speak another language with you before age 6? If they did, then your brain already built the neural pathways for languages, and that makes it easier to convert that to English. Your situation is different than Pete’s. The video is saying that Pete’s brain is forming differently than Lucy’s (and yours) because he had a childhood deprived of enriching language experiences. If the nanny spoke to Pete entirely in her native language, he may have been on the same level as Lucy when he goes to school and begins learning English words to replace the foreign language words he already knew.
@@kw2080 Unfortunately some people hire others to raise their children instead of just help out. The biggest problem here was that the parents forbid the nanny from speaking in her native language. They should not have left language development up to her in that case. It had to have been obvious that she was not as fluent in English. They could easily have handled their son's English development and let the nanny speak in her native language. Then Pete would enter school speaking two languages. Then again that would require them to parent and actually interact beyond the bare minimum with their child. This is a sad story as it sounds like Pete is being neglected by his parents.
@@plateofpasta12you’re right on the money. It reminds me of Genie (the feral child) whose parents didn’t speak to her throughout her early childhood and did not develop language. You don’t just catch up after years of language neglect, with neural pathways that never developed . So no, this isn’t an apples to apples comparison by a long shot.
@@plateofpasta12 do you know in what object language we wrote a compiler to compile a source language. How was writen the first language by reggres. You cute simple people
I couldn't talk until the age of 9, it sucks, but that's the reality I lived. Deep down I knew why, it bothers me even now. My family who are narcists ignored me and the only attention I got was negative. This led to a lack of social skills and confidence.
It feels kind of weird for us Asians to be represented by a hat like that. Especially in Japan where it isn't widely known how advanced technology is there.
Also, it seemed like they were trying to remove the parents from any blame by claiming it was the nanny's fault. Why wasn't the nanny allowed to use her native language? The boy's language skills could have benefited from her exposure and the parents could still be accountable for other deficits.
This is an awesome conversation to add in as a refining feedback. Theoretical presentations struggle to capture the full scope of possibilities because typically their goal is to convey the concepts in as straightforward a way as possible rather than explore the many variants that may come into play. With that, cultural factors are a challenging thing to express in simple drawings like these. Sometimes stereotypical elements are used in artwork without intention to disparage in order to provide a visual cue. It is a hard thing to feel that our culture is being portrayed in a negative or primitive light. Good feedback helps :)
One of my professors told a story about a family that hired a Filipina nanny who spoke Tagalog to their son. When he started school, the school called and said that he spoke only Tagalog. How sad that his family never realized that before because they never talked to him.
English is an official language of the Philippines, most Filipinos speak English extremely well and often mix English into their speech... this tale seems like a hyperbole.
I wonder if the child with Filipina Nanny lives alone in a secluded area, without the parents, and heard no other language, then the professor might have a point. If they are all living together, even the parents are not speaking with the child, still exposed to the parents' language, the professor misses the significant point of the linguistic theory on acquiring language. The story of the professor is hyperbole.
Thank god for these videos...im 5 1/2 months pregnant with my first child and am so nervous about how to be a parent...thank you for your videos sprout!
not to mention that empathetic social interaction with primary care giver helps with emotional regulation, healthy attachment, but most importantly, reduces stress n can act as a buffer when a child has suffered from an Adverse Childhood Effect. i read somewhere 2/3 of the adults in uk and usa have experienced 2 or more. ACEs are correlated to increased risk of chronic illnesses (heart disease, cancer, fibro, ME, IBS, ASthma, MS etc) medium.com/@ityiws/is-chronic-illness-caused-by-childhood-trauma-e16cd258d54a acestoohigh.com/aces-101/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30904602
Kim warburton Thank very much for your response and adding the information that you presented. It is really refreshing to see others actually being vocal about such important issues and I agree with you 💯 percent and salute you for your involvement. Once again I thank you for your response and appreciate it.
This video was interesting.In my perception I feel that , language is not only the tool to communicate.It is one of the way because it is globally accepted one. May be his interpersonal ability can be high. Children are unique.Rather shaping them to adjust with them we can be wider in thinking and go with their flow. I strongly believe, we can learn many things from them.once we admit at times that" we are ignorant"
Raising a bilingual 1 year old and thank god my country (Finland) has a good support system and we've been getting a lot of good advice already how to help his language development. This video definitely added a perspective and will think about this when supporting his growth!
Raising a bilingual too! Almost two now, but it's incredible how much they learn. She knows exactly which language to speak to whom and sometimes correctly translates words for me.
@@lelwanidingir3281 how do u do tht ? Am a trilingual and sometimes i dunno which language should i speak to my child ! Mainly i speak english but i would love for her to speak other languages like me !
Sorry for answering late. I have the feeling I don't do anything beside consistently talking to her in one language. The rest is all her talent. I'm sure she will speak more languages later on, maybe it is just a question of patience. @@youssracherik6593
De jó kis videó, köszönöm. Kiegészíteném a meseolvasással, ami a fantéziát fejleszti korai kisgyermekkorban. Ja tőlem se kérje senki, hogy olvassak angolul fel, mivel rossz kiejtéssel rosszat tanulna tőlem a gyerek, de azt hozzátenném, ha egy nyelven valakinek megvan mindez egy másikra könnyebben tudja átfordítani az iskolában, óvodában.
if Pete's nanny is allowed to speak in her native language, Pete will be able to express better than Lucy when he grow up. More advantages and opportunities for Pete who can speak two languages. Too bad he has lazy parents.
Hi I am from India.... And particularly from Kerala.....When it comes mother tongue, we can easily learn it from the people we interact.... It's quite possible if the interaction is less you pick up the language slowly... But we all go to schools, right? There we have enough chance to improve our language.... And I think it's about a foreign language this video is about. It's for sure if you start learning a new language from childhood itself, you learn it quickly...... Thank you for a valuable information...
This is why universal pre-k is essential to the overall betterment of society. If you build up a strong foundation in the early years it becomes easier and children don’t have to struggle as much expressing themselves and getting what they need.
I'd love to immerse my future kids in a multilingual environment. Unfortunately I can only speak English and my Japanese skills - well, I can hold a basic conversation but that's it. If I were Petes parents I'd've encouraged the nanny to use her native language. I'd've asked her to use it with me too! When you speak it a person in their learned language, you speak to their head, but if you speak to a person in their native tongue, you speak to their heart.
It’s possible to speak from the heart in a second language. Kids in multi-lingual houses will often appear to have less language to the outside world, but, in truth, will have more total language because they are learning vocabulary in more languages. Eventually, the multi-lingual kid will catch up and exceed the monolingual kid in total language ability and knowledge. The multi-lingual kid will have a broader world and advantages beyond what the mono-lingual kid may ever have the capacity for even as an adult. In which case, it won’t matter what their kindergarten teacher thought at 4 years of age. BTW, It’s fine if the nanny spoke English to the kid. I don’t know where the creator got their information from but it wasn’t a linguist.
There are parallels in this story to that of helicopter parenting. In the story, the problem is the language barrier of the nanny. In the bubble wrapping child parallel, the problem is the hindered experiences from the nanny state that believe that EVERYTHING is dangerous and is overprotective. This results in the child is hindered greatly on exploring. Schools also focus on test scores so that they can receive maximum funding. They reduce free play because it gets in the way of precious study time.
My kid learn more from videos than from me. THere are a lot of phrases that he prefers using, but none that I actually taught him or use around him. I play baby einstein, which taught him some sign language as well. I also let him watch cocomelon and he learned the entire alphabet before he turned 2 with a dave and ava video. His favorite phrases are "hmm.. wait a second" and "oh wow, beautiful" he uses them in adorably appropriate situations and he learned both from blippi (as annoying as he is.) he also learned excavator, his longest word from blippi, as well as learned to play and sing with this videos. I almost didn't let him watch tv, but then I came across another video that suggested baby einstein, and I immediately saw his interest in communicating with me. Yes I had him seeing a speech therapist who prescribed different activities with him, but they didn't stick as well as the stuff he learned from videos. He is a pandemic baby and hasn't even interacted with other children and I was afraid that he wouldn't know how to play or communicate, but now hes very talkative and silly thanks to the many videos available online.
That theory works for most people, but not the autistic - Einstein likely had autism like me. I went from 50 words and screaming, babbling and 1 word sentences on my sixth birthday to over 15,000 words by my 7th. What caused it, the equilibrium and contentment of early childhood being broken. Today a word test showed my vocab was around 40 - 55k, or twice as many as usual. My first words were "Gloucester Street" as I was reading street signs in the taxi on the way to Special school, the driver nearly drove off the road!
yes yes yes!! ive worked with some toddlers as a babysitter, and also watching my own little half sliblings (12-20 years age difference) and its so true, they can very clearly understand before actual speaking
I see parenting as an experiment, there is no one size fit all here neither. There is no need to feel pressured to “catch up”, but being the best parent you can be is what’s more important. Let the kids enjoy their childhood, play and have fun. Life will get progressively harder as they age so let them enjoy it.
What I've found heartbreaking here in Japan is the disproportionate number of kids coming up for 5 years of age that are missing significant developmental milestones, presumably because the three years from ages 1 to 4 have been spent at nurseries and kindergartens where nobody has a face because of enforced masking. Not seeing a person's face at that age when they're trying to talk to you means much of the nuance is lost, so the words just go in one ear and out the other. I know 5 year olds that are still in nappies and barely able to string a sentence together.
Wow, I didn't even think about this kind of situation with masking. My wife went through the daycare system in Japan and vowed to not do that to our kids, but to be with them
I really thing this is over simplified as there is more to communication than verbal and language communication. My husband had zero English fluency but was placed into an English speaking country at 16. His English is now fluent but with an accent, limited vocab and imperfect grammar, but he more than makes up for it through his observational skills. Because his English was so poor when he first arrived, he had to rely on reading tone, context and body language to guess what people were saying, consequently he's extremely astute to reading people's underlying thoughts and intentions. It's actually often an advantage, as he's not clouded by the words people are speaking (e.g. gauging when clients are being polite vs genuine interest). Also even in Pete's example, his parents are less involved, not non-existent. I'm a firm believer in quality over quantity, if his parents even spend 30mins of quality time with him a day that might already be enough to bring his language level closer to Lucy. Also, as a parent, you don't actually have to be great at something yourself in order for your child to learn it. It's about providing support and encouragement. For example you can learn piano even if your parents don't know piano themselves, even if you only see the piano teacher 30mins a week as long as parents are supporting what the teacher is teaching by encouraging the piano practice etc.
The idea of language development is supported by the rich background knowledge that child is exposed to. There is the nature of the child existing already, but it has to be nurtured by environment by the home, school and community through the caregivers at home and school through language. Schema or background knowledge is slowly developed and so is the acquisition of language. Once the child has a rich background experience, it is easier for him or her to engage and interact on certain topics by reading, writing, speaking and writing using the vocabulary or words he she has acquired. You can only give what you have.
As a mom of bilingual kid, I can see my daughter's second language and first language vocab is less than a kid same age just learning one language. Listening to this now I'm not sure if it's gonaa get better in amy of those two languages in her life time. I always think it helps her to be more creative knowing two languages.
I'm in early 30s and born between parents from completely different languages (who couldn't speak each others language very well), but don't think that's an issue. Reading books helped me a lot. I moved countries in early teens as well and where I didn't know words, but the "struggle" was more down to cultural things (like what was popular in a certain country I didn't know about as I was not there), not the language itself and it wasn't a major issue.
I’m guessing she will learn English in school. Assure she takes formal lessons in her second language. For now, encourage her to express herself in both languages. My son grew up in mostly English speaking house and Spanish speaking extended family. His English is impeccable (thanks to me). Once had started formally studying Spanish he found he was better than me in one semester, and better than his dad (Spanish is mother tongue) after the first year. He studied foreign languages in university and is now also fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, and Portuguese.
As someone who speaks 4 languages and lives in the european continent i can guarantee you, your daughter will be fine, she will be ahead of most children in the future and most important, if the logic of this video was a rule, most europeans would not also speak 4 languages fluently and europe would not be ahead of the US education system in milestones. Rest assured if you follow the correct pedagogy and education process your daughter will be fine.
I speak to my baby in 4 languages, she is 1 year and 3 months she perfectly understands each command in all languages, French English Russian Kazakh. She loves books so much that she will chase you until you start to read or describe.
Even the purpose of the video is the language development, language alone is not what we call thinking. Language is more like labeling objects, whereas thinking is knowing the objects behind those words, seeing different ways in which those objects can interact, creating structures out of those objects in order to solve some problems we are confronted with. These structures are all around us, from music and painting, to medicine or government and politics. Language has a great importance in exchanging with others, however its role should not be overestimated.
This video is interesting, I can help to reflect on my own upbringing and compare my experiences to this video. Although the language is a huge factor into anyone’s development (especially children) I believe our experiences limit our growth. For example many children who are being read too, spoken to etc. can be bullied or or observe very traumatizing events. How do these experiences impact their development? And if so how and what part of the brain is responsible in limiting the development? In a perfect world, we can do our best in aiding the development of our children, but as someone mentioned in the comments, their character/personality must coincide in order to have a successful result. That’s just my take. Also if Pete is at a disadvantage, how can he improve or “make up” for lost time after middle school or high school?
In this example, Pete was exposed to a limited vocabulary due to a nanny with reduced English proficiency. I see many comments asking why Pete's parents are also not communicating with him part of the day. We are forgetting that most children are raised by their parents and that most working and welfare class parents themselves have limited vocabularies and also limited social skills. The Bloomberg Providence Talks study showed that not only do children of working and welfare class families hear far fewer words (30 million fewer words by 3rd birthday), but that the words they hear are far less rich in content and nuances ("Don't do that!", "Stop!", "Do this now!"). The only answer to remedy this is to provide professional early education to all children or at least all disadvantaged children. Finland went from being mediocre in education outcomes to among the best in the western world in just a few years by starting formal early education as young as 6 months with very low student/teacher ratios (as low as 2/1 in early years) and highly qualified teachers (applicable advanced degrees required).
My guess is that Pete’s parents should have spent more time with him. Especially since there was a nanny who took all the “technical” care of the child during the weekdays. It’s much more possible to have rich and powerful connection with a child when you are not exhausted and pissed off after the whole day working and taking care of the child. 2-3 hours before sleep and weekends should provide a good amount of healthy communication for a language development.
Giving them books while young helps alot in nurturing the child's growth in not only learning but also understanding, reading and literature. Not to force it in general but to pique interest through themed/custom books such as *personalised childrens books*
Wow, thank you for this insightful video. Now, I know why I found it difficult to express my self in certain times in the past and still now haha. I was grown up in a Beber village in Morocco where we speak Berber. After that, I was sent to the school where we study all the subjects in classical Arabic while the teachers were teaching using Moroccan Arabic.
Progress and growth can be attributed to mindsets. Teaching children to be free thinking is key. There are a variety of ways to influence this outside of verbal/social situations. Creating miniature games or activities to stimulate their minds in general can help the other processes of human interaction. Just to clarify looking through the lense if extroverted/introverted personalities. Since a majority of my childhood involved isolation and self study to improve
My only comment is that children can learn from each other. Many children in the world develop sufficient language skills without extensive parent input to the extent this video is suggesting is necessary.
A very interesting topic, thank you. I think that he can definitely catch up, but it will be hard and will only get harder as he gets older. By the time he realises that he has some catching up to do it might be too late. A good teacher would see that he needs help and may help him.
The ability to develop a vocabulary is not just limited to 5 years. A child can develop the same at adolescent or early adulthood if reading is inculcated. Yes, Pete would have missed out on a lot of school learning and expressing, but if the inculcating has happened during schooling, there would be no missing. The point being, once the habit to read has been inculcated, it is directly proportional to the increased vocabulary , thereby, enhancing the ability of expression of ideas and creativity of an individual.
6:05 just a little mistake, if you name the chess piece Knight (the right way) then there's no horse... About the final question, it is most important how you apply your knowledge than the knowledge itself.
Sad part is Pete can't control anything. You don't get to choose what situation you're born into. He might not even realize he was behind until puberty, when the gap widens and you know you're different. That's over a decade of wasted time. Tbh life is over by age 5 and you don't even know it
The best way to learn another language is to live where they speak that language. A stranger in a new land Learns faster than in his own land. Shalowm Amen. God is the one that changed our language and He knows when we need help Understanding, Even his Word.!
He won’t be bilingual, the language needs to be shared with the child in a meaningful way, clearly in this scenario the nanny only communicate with the child in broken English. What does stereotypes have to do with the subject at hand, stop trying to interject your cult into important conversations. It’s not about your cults beliefs it’s about creating better futures for our children.
If you take out the rice hat I think it would actually be a sort of classical scenario. The rice hat was a great visual aid tho. Not all the people in the world dress the same, you know?
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What about bilingual children learning a foreign language in a foreign country? For example, I have a son. He is four now. He is sociable and talkative child. He has a wide range of vocabulary in his native language. So, I’m afraid that it would be very difficult for him to express himself and to communicate in the foreign country. He wouldn’t understand why other children don’t want to talk to him or don’t understand him. He couldn’t express himself clearly. I’m afraid that our moving will be very stressful for him and it will have negative impact on his personality. Should we cancel our decision in order not to hurt his psyche?Or are my fears unfounded and it would be not so stressful for him to learn another language through emigration in his young age?
My cousins son can understand and speak 4 language when he is not even 8 and his future will be bright i dont think it will be easy for your child but setting up the foundation is important dont be discouraged by difficulties and things your child will have to go through
Sezgin Özcan thank you for support! I’m just a typical mother who is worried about mental health and wellness of her child. 😊 But you’re right. Difficulties make us stronger. And ultimately we gain more thanks to more complicated experiences.
Your classes are so helpful.. amazingly scheduled and within a short span of time more informations are provided.. can you please do such simple videos on vygotsky's language development theory, and personality theories of Adler, Carl Roger, Eric berne, catell..
I’m a Twin and me and my twin invented our own language bc we did not speak English until we were 5, our parents took us to a dr. Who said we may be autistic and may never speak but now my sister and I are seniors in highschool and she has a 4.0 gpa and I have a 3.7 non-weighted gpa. I wouldn’t say I’m the smartest but I am decent enough and what I lack in smarts I make up for in common sense. idk how language effected us.
communication is one of the 8 Success Fundamentals for the 21st Century. The fact that it is not a more prevalent subject to study in our childhood years is beyond me. We can not speak that which we do not know. The more limited the vocabulary, the more tendency to poor behavior.
In an era of misinformation and invalid information, it is nice that you included some citations to back up the narrative. Some additional references would be good.
This happened in my home my son is delayed in language because he was not exposed to much conversation only at home with me, now he is exactly as the pette. It’s very hard and frustrating for him and me
Humans didn’t invent language. Even crows can tell each other things and the other crowd then know things they’ve never directly experienced The inaccuracy of this opening makes me question everything later
My 5-year-old child can speak a little but understand more english, filipino and german. I talk to him in filipino, we live in germany so he knows that language the best. When we watch kid's show, we watch them in english. He also hears us speak a bit of french and korean (we watch kdrama once in a while😁).
I moved to the United States when I was 3. My brothers were were 4 and 8. All 3 of us are more proficient in English than our native Russian. My eldest speaks better Russian than I do because he moved back. However, I speak better Russian than my middle brother because I practice it more.
Before I had my first class I had a beautiful childhood, but I never learned how to calculate and I was an immigrant. So I couldn't understand what the teacher was saying and my mom couldn't teach me mathematics. So I read a lot to learn the language but missed first math classes. I got my a levels because math was not part in it. I'm so thankful because I'm 20 and I use my fingers to calculate :D language is so important! I think that's the only reason why I'm so bad with math. I had a Traumata because numbers were hieroglyphics to me. My teacher knew I was an immigrant but never helped me.
Any stimulus around a child causes response which is reaction in some form as format or pattern for observation to know more about the concerned child. The stimuli are in nature and responses are natural.
I always felt parents who gave all kinds of learning gadgets out of fear that they weren't as capable or that they were just plain lazy. It's good to also know the neurological explanation behind the brain development.
It often happens to parents that are bilingual themselves and have to introduce more than one language. After a certain phase, lets say after entering elementary school. children can finally focus and learn new vocabulary from different sources.
Language is one thing, but there are so many different ways to express yourself, so don't worry, to really maneging a language takes more than five years to master, pete can still catch up if he want.
I grow up as a child in the 1960's . I was classified by the education system as being medially retarded. I didn't pronounce very well, could not read at my appropriate age and did not have the knowledge that my peers had. I remember just looking out the window day dreaming because I had no interest with what the teacher was saying. My parents was told that I was retarded and would never be equal in learning with the other students. I was put in special ed. When I was 12 years old I was watching a Jacques Cousteau documentary (a famous scuba diver) and I told my teachers that I wanted to be a scuba diver and I wanted to read about scuba diving (we had no computers then). They just smiled at me and gave me the same baby books they gave me year after year. They told my dad not to encourage me because it would only hurt me when I find out that I was not capable of doing such things. My dad did not listen to them. He find a diving instructor that would teach me and my dad. I started learning how to read books. I got a 99% correct on my diving test (the school teachers said that the dive instructor and my dad was lying). That changed my life. I was also interested in Electronics and Aviation. By the age of 16 I was a certified privet pilot. By the age of 18 I joined the Air National Guard and became a Avionic Technician (repairing aircraft electronics). Pretty good for someone who is retarded ! !
My son, 3 and half years old, grows up in a trilingual family, living in a place speaks the fourth language, now speaking two languages as dominate language, just started picking up the third language from the local kindergarten. But he does not speaking a word of daddy’s language. So Is it Pete’s disadvantage in language because of the Nanny? Or are his parents absent from his life too much?
The Bloomberg studies (Providence Talks) show that children of working and welfare class families have a huge deficit by their 3rd birthday and more by the time they start 1st grade compared to children of middle and upper-class families. Then we make it worse by grouping all the children from working and welfare class families in one set of schools different from the schools attended by children with larger vocabularies (of middle and upper-class families). (Due to neighborhood schools and neighborhood segregation by socio-economic class.) This grouping of children with smaller verbal vocabularies separate from children with larger verbal vocabularies deprives the children with smaller vocabularies of the opportunities to increase their vocabularies through interaction with children with larger verbal vocabularies. Then we typically teach reading using phonetics on the assumption that if a child can pronounce a word they will recognize it from their verbal vocabulary. This is not the case for children with smaller verbal vocabularies. The reduced vocabulary and reading proficiency of this group of children will significantly slow the ability of these children to learn most other things in life, especially academic subjects. Then we take another step that makes things worse. We have state or national guidelines as to what should be taught when based on average learning speeds. But we have entire schools of slow learners (not because of inherent abilities but rather late preparation) and schools of much faster learners (who were simply exposed much earlier to more vocabulary). Asking them to progress at the same speed means that the material being taught will quickly move beyond what the students in schools with a high % of disadvantaged children are able to keep up with, rendering education in those schools next to useless for many of those students. Then we wonder why the education outcomes in poor communities are so much worse than in wealthier communities and why dropout rates and crime in those neighborhoods are so much greater. What's the answer? Finland went from being mediocre in education outcomes compared to other countries to being the best in the western world in just a few years. They made a number of changes such as banning private schools which put many children with the bigger vocabularies back in the mix with other children. But perhaps the biggest impact was providing very high-quality preschool starting as young as 6 months in age. And with student/teacher ratios varying from 2/1 in lower years to 7/1 at age 6 with highly qualified preschool teachers with advanced degrees in child psychology and pedagogics. Doing that would greatly reduce any vocabulary gap going into 1st grade and the beginning of learning to read. What do others of you think?
Yes, there's plenty of chances for Peter to catch up.. There are so many types of intelligence besides the verbal one. And.. over the course of our lifes we continue to learn so many things.
I have seen so many of these drawn animations that I cannot watch them anymore. I experience them as common, trite, agitating, and distracting rather than supportive of the content. I no longer watch them and only listen to the lecture which I do appreciate.
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So many examples to explain this and you chose the worst.
Should've made the nanny speak to the child in Mandarin. Dumb parents.
It's not that Pete is late. It's that he will simply have a harder time, which means that if Lucy does everything he does in terms of language learning she will move even further. His potential is being limited but it still exists. Just like you can learn to draw at age 40, it is recommended you do when you are a little kid because that will expedite the process significantly. I personally find myself learning words every single day in English since it is not my native language but it is still the language I use the most with other Native English speakers. To expand one's vocabulary, reading is a great tool, but new words should still be written down and learned separately from the book to add even more context in order to make the word stick.
I'm currently learning Japanese and find it quite easy to learn new vocabulary when I have something to connect it to using stories and images.
Your English is great and I agree 100%
Let’s remember that, Poor Pete was not given the same exposure to print rich environments as Lucy. Poor Pete missed out on the fundamental skills of vocabulary for language development. If provided with these skills under intense intervention, best practices explicit systematic and cumulative instructions,
Pete will catch up.
True. Pete simply has a less than smooth scaffolding going on. Hang in there buddy :)
Thanks for helping me with my homework
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Being a bilingual teacher myself I found it very worrying that people still think that only native adults can teach language 'properly'. It has to do with proficiency. I know a lot of native English people that have lower proficiency in English compared to bilingual individuals. In today's connected world these language myths should be long gone!
It's not a myth, is a generalization because IN THE MAJORITY of the cases it works this way. What you are talking is about exceptions: they confirm the rule. I believe I have a large vocabulary of english words and I live outside my native country for over 20 years, but compared with my own native language and it's nuances my understanding of english is quite limited. People should stop thinking that exceptions change a rule.
@@allwhatilove914 I have teach my self to speak English and write to. As a second language. But I used more In my everyday Life now. The problem I have encountered is that people tend to minimize you knowledge and skills. Just for the simple reason that you didn't learned in school. That you didn't go to a institution to be teach how to speak. The lenguage. But my vocabulary in English sometimes are to much for the native speaker Because I learned from tv documentary's history book's historical writing poetry and phylosofer's so my English is a mix of old English and New English. Most of the time I have native speaker's on the search bar. On Google. Because they arguing that the words they just heard from me are not English words. LoL but then they just try to gaslighting the situation. To pin it on my second language. 😂 When they see that the words are part of the English language.
@@edwingonzalez3703 Friend...
Totally agree with your comment. And its so easy to access the English language, its all over!
Too
Language is not just words, they’re the communication of thoughts and feelings, sadly not many know how to express.
It’s difficult to fully enjoy how much extra there is to language under a mask. I worry about this generation of kids.
@@kw2080 not everyone is going to survive, sadly. Kids learn from us. Have you ever explained your feelings to a child? That’s how they learn. They learn to express themselves through the circle their born into.
Language is an exclusive capacity of the human race, just as kittens know how meow and dogs bark and birds fly, a human is pre-set to be able to talk
Moral of the story: let people speak other languages to your children.
No the moral of the story is raise your own children. Stop off loading your responsibilities
@@ccmcduck9669 I think it's both.
@@ccmcduck9669 how is allowing them to more strongly grasp other languages you're incapable of speaking off loading your responsibilities
Who says you cannot provide emotion in a second language? That was a weird claim.
@@kw2080 I'm confused, which comment are you replying to?
I’m a Filipino living in Japan but my daughter’s 1st language is English. Based on my own experience as a mom of bilingual daughter, it is very critical to communicate to a child from birth. Thinking that they don’t understand what we are saying but they are trying to communicate with a smile & giggle. Language input plays a very important role so later on you can hear the output. At 2, she can switch her language from English to Japanese when she’s talking to her father without any confusion. One more thing, sitting with your child while watching educational videos and reading them stories with big expressions also play a big role. Explain things that are new to them for a greater understanding & vocabularies. Boys most of the time have late development when it comes to talking but physically active as compared to girls (not in general).
Excuse me my question but why don't you use tagalog to speak with your child? Its very important for a child to be able to connect with their roots.
@@japanvirtuallearning4268 that’s a good question. I’ve met lots of Filipino moms blaming themselves or being blamed by their children for not teaching them English and not for not teaching them Filipino (Tagalog). My daughter can communicate with anyone in every time we go back to Pinas (Phils.) for a short vacation because English is our second language. Most Filipinos can speak English though not everyone can be as fluent as native speakers but it’s something that Filipinos can be proud of. Lastly, learning English at home help us save money, much economical (kuripot lang po)😉😆
@Rainbow Ikeda how does your child talks with your parents? It’s somehow difficult for them to build deep relationships..
This reminds me of my daughter and non-verbal autistic son, despite their environment and influences being much more similar. I definitely think Pete will likely find ways to compensate for the areas he lacks. I'm positive there are plenty of successful Petes'. Lucy just has a measurable advantage.
Lucy may not keep any advantage if she slows down her learning to better fit in with her peer group.
@@kw2080 This is a very good point and demonstrates perfectly why the people that children socialize with actually matter.
@@livelovelife32 I agree, but only to an extent. While it is important to have children be around well spoken friends, it shouldn’t be the only goal. Simply put, don’t gate-keep your children’s friends based on their vocabulary. If one of your children’s friends can’t speak very well, don’t make your cut ties with them or spend less time around them. And if your child is in an environment where most kids can’t speak well, the solution should be also putting them in an environment where most kids speak well.
I’m not sure if you thought that parents should keep their kids away from worse speaking kids, and I’m not trying to claim that. Rather, I would like to star that this should not be the case in any situation. Have a good day.
I do think non-verbal autistic kids generally have more options to communicate than children who weren't given the environment to help them understand language. When I go non-verbal (I'm autistic, too) I can use sign language, send messages with my phone or write my thoughts on paper. With a weaker understanding of language, I would struggle with all those options equally. In stead, when I go non-verbal, the only thing I can't do is speak.
This is why I chose to care for my kids full time. I took the first 5 years seriously. Play, sing, talk spend lots of time with your little ones. No one is going to care more about your children than you.
I love that you folks present an argument, and then explore other possibilities. It's a strong premise and I think it has merit, especially in a society that values language so much. I do think that Pete would certainly compensate in unexpected ways. For what he may lack in solidifying the depth of his language abilities, he may end up strengthening non verbal communication skills. Perhaps a stronger reliance on facial recognition and even possibly empathy to make up for it?
Yeah it's all speculation, but I think above all else, children will naturally explore their world. Peters going to learn SOMETHING.
Thank you Zachary for sharing your view!
Yes. He'll learn something. Hopefully, not just how to manipulate with his words, to get away w/ and lying,* about his BULLYING behavior.
And worse behaviors as he never matures throughout his Adulthood.
Given what I know now, my future kids will be geniuses
Make me your kid. Please, take me from my parents. ADOPT ME & I’ll repay & take care of you when I’m a billionaire
Jonathan Taylor I’ll even call you daddy
@@alinasings wth
@@alinasings be MY sugar daddy
Try not to pressure your future kids to be geniuses. Just provide the environment for them to flourish.
I loved talking to my son. At age 3 he took a Star Wars 20 page picture book from me and read it page by page perfectly. He's a teacher.
I also later had a great stint teaching ESL classes (I did take language classes in school)
in my opinion is never too late to learn new language . that's remember me a story for a video long ago wich an old man speak english very fast because had a crush in a old women who speak only english. He find a motivation. as always excellent quality and content video .
Thanks aymane for the good feedback! For a new language its definitely never too late, as long as you learned any language (can be also sign language) properly before age 12.
It is easier when young though ! :)
But it's never too late to learn indeed, it's really good for the brain to be stimulated as we grow older as it reduces memory troubles later or other intellectual deficiency that can come with age.
I agree with you, but it's a new language besides the mother tongue. Children need a native language to establish their mental capabilities and to understand the world and them selves. In most cases, it's too late if a child has been poorly educated for a long time.
this is one of the main reasons my husband and I decided together One of us should stay with our daughter for the first 3 years of her life at home. Husband had a career path with more benefits and growth singular path so I chose to stay. Baby is only 3 months we been reading few books to her daily and say everything as we are doing. She enjoys having talking to us in her own sounds lol.
Sounds like my story. I quit my job and I stay home with my 3 and 4 year old. We used to do flash cards and lessons, they both caught on quick. Now we talk and go places. I like to see them interact with other kids and learn fro
Them too.
There are different types of intelligence, skills and mental plasticity does not end with childhood, so yes, there's great hope for Pete! Pete could be a great athlete, he could be a great dancer, singer, composer, methematician (musica and math have their own language) or he could have caught up ideas and language from other sources than the nanny, with the right motivation and the right support Pete will be fine and learn loads, at the same time Lucy could become discouraged, could be limited by an introverted nature that does not allow her to express herself verbally as much as others, this assuming that both children have no learning or developmental imparement. So there are many, many nuances to child development and parents could be discouraged by someone tellign them that their child can't focus (for example) because he didn't receive adequate linguistic tools in time. There are rare extreme examples of learning disabilities due to total language imparement but that's not what usually happens in average lives.The presentation is nice but a little limitative and it paints a black and white picture of the issue (quite literally, haha), also the nanny with a traditional cone hat is a little (a lot) patronising, where I live in Asia only very old people, usually gardeners, wear them...or tourists, it's not a thing, seriously. Anyway I do appreciate the channel and the videos.
Today I was at a grocery store narrating and talking to my 4 month old son. A passerby asked if he is talking back to me. I answered no (like duh) and kept talking to my baby about the things we are buying. I did the same with my first and she has a large vocabulary 💙 Annisa
My wife has been doing this with our 18 month old since he was born and says people look at her like she's crazy 🤣. Now he has a vocab of hundreds of words and often speaks in sentences 😁
The video does a good job showing the importance of language and talking/reading to your child. That being said, there are genetic factors that play a role I language development and besides that, most studies show that developing language earlier only has a very small correlation with intelligence later in life. Another study showed that kids who struggle developing language early almost always end up at the same development level as early developers by age 4-5. PARENTS IF YOUR CHILD SEEMS A LITTLE BEHIND DONT PANIC (obviously talk to their doc but most likely they're perfectly normal and won't end up behind other kids) YOUR PROBABLY NOT A BAD PARENT 🙂✌️
Welp, glad I could get some validation here about why my kids have speech delays. I spent most of my time too exhaused to talk and too exhausted to take them out to social situations. It seriously annoys me people keep saying "it's not your fault" when I know it absolutely is. They clearly began to improve once I started reading to them on a regular basis and clearly stagnated when I stopped again. (It's hard to read when they fight if they're too close to each other and I'm trying to keep the baby from ripping the pages of a library book!) They're 3 so I suppose there is still time for them to recover some lost ground. I have a better handle on things now so maybe the baby will have better luck with his language development.
Thank you for your honesty. And yes there still is time. I wish you all the strength and energy to do what you know is right. It’s not always possible, but we can try. And if we fail, let’s try again tomorrow. I wish you well! Jonas
I really 😁 appreciate you with your comment.. (◠‿◕)
you should utilize your library more . atleast you know its your fault. just set an alarm and read and directly talk to them all day long.
It's definitely completely possible for Pete to catch up. English is my first language now, but I only formally started learning it at age 6. Just constant exposure to the language and daily use put English at the forefront, and I'm definitely not any behind native speakers who began younger at this point.
Did your family speak another language with you before age 6? If they did, then your brain already built the neural pathways for languages, and that makes it easier to convert that to English. Your situation is different than Pete’s. The video is saying that Pete’s brain is forming differently than Lucy’s (and yours) because he had a childhood deprived of enriching language experiences. If the nanny spoke to Pete entirely in her native language, he may have been on the same level as Lucy when he goes to school and begins learning English words to replace the foreign language words he already knew.
@@plateofpasta12 Pete never had parents who spoke to him? Were his parents famous movie stars or something?
@@kw2080 Unfortunately some people hire others to raise their children instead of just help out. The biggest problem here was that the parents forbid the nanny from speaking in her native language. They should not have left language development up to her in that case. It had to have been obvious that she was not as fluent in English. They could easily have handled their son's English development and let the nanny speak in her native language. Then Pete would enter school speaking two languages. Then again that would require them to parent and actually interact beyond the bare minimum with their child. This is a sad story as it sounds like Pete is being neglected by his parents.
@@plateofpasta12you’re right on the money. It reminds me of Genie (the feral child) whose parents didn’t speak to her throughout her early childhood and did not develop language. You don’t just catch up after years of language neglect, with neural pathways that never developed . So no, this isn’t an apples to apples comparison by a long shot.
@@plateofpasta12 do you know in what object language we wrote a compiler to compile a source language. How was writen the first language by reggres. You cute simple people
Looking back to my childhood, I just realized that I was Poor Pete
I couldn't talk until the age of 9, it sucks, but that's the reality I lived. Deep down I knew why, it bothers me even now. My family who are narcists ignored me and the only attention I got was negative. This led to a lack of social skills and confidence.
I am so sorry. All children deserve better. Sucks we're stuck with the parents we come from with no choice when we're young.
I can totally relate with you
love it, just 1 minor comment on the character of nanny wearing vietnamese hat all the time, it is such a stereotype.
It feels kind of weird for us Asians to be represented by a hat like that. Especially in Japan where it isn't widely known how advanced technology is there.
Agreed.
Also, it seemed like they were trying to remove the parents from any blame by claiming it was the nanny's fault. Why wasn't the nanny allowed to use her native language? The boy's language skills could have benefited from her exposure and the parents could still be accountable for other deficits.
I noticed that too. The video can make the point without it.
This is an awesome conversation to add in as a refining feedback. Theoretical presentations struggle to capture the full scope of possibilities because typically their goal is to convey the concepts in as straightforward a way as possible rather than explore the many variants that may come into play. With that, cultural factors are a challenging thing to express in simple drawings like these. Sometimes stereotypical elements are used in artwork without intention to disparage in order to provide a visual cue. It is a hard thing to feel that our culture is being portrayed in a negative or primitive light. Good feedback helps :)
One of my professors told a story about a family that hired a Filipina nanny who spoke Tagalog to their son. When he started school, the school called and said that he spoke only Tagalog. How sad that his family never realized that before because they never talked to him.
Oh my god
English is an official language of the Philippines, most Filipinos speak English extremely well and often mix English into their speech... this tale seems like a hyperbole.
I wonder if the child with Filipina Nanny lives alone in a secluded area, without the parents, and heard no other language, then the professor might have a point. If they are all living together, even the parents are not speaking with the child, still exposed to the parents' language, the professor misses the significant point of the linguistic theory on acquiring language. The story of the professor is hyperbole.
Wow!
Thank god for these videos...im 5 1/2 months pregnant with my first child and am so nervous about how to be a parent...thank you for your videos sprout!
Hope this helps you. >>>Caring For Your Newborn: Promoting Infant Development and Addressing Common Questions ua-cam.com/video/2vqhTU16Dr4/v-deo.html
Seems to validate the need for empathetic social interactionism for healthy human development. Thanks again
Thanks for your response.
Thanks for the thumbs up 👍 as I appreciate all constructive feedback.
not to mention that empathetic social interaction with primary care giver helps with emotional regulation, healthy attachment, but most importantly, reduces stress n can act as a buffer when a child has suffered from an Adverse Childhood Effect. i read somewhere 2/3 of the adults in uk and usa have experienced 2 or more. ACEs are correlated to increased risk of chronic illnesses (heart disease, cancer, fibro, ME, IBS, ASthma, MS etc)
medium.com/@ityiws/is-chronic-illness-caused-by-childhood-trauma-e16cd258d54a
acestoohigh.com/aces-101/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30904602
Kim warburton Thank very much for your response and adding the information that you presented. It is really refreshing to see others actually being vocal about such important issues and I agree with you 💯 percent and salute you for your involvement. Once again I thank you for your response and appreciate it.
@@bonkahermitakaintjudge9228 thankyou :)
This video was interesting.In my perception I feel that , language is not only the tool to communicate.It is one of the way because it is globally accepted one. May be his interpersonal ability can be high. Children are unique.Rather shaping them to adjust with them we can be wider in thinking and go with their flow. I strongly believe, we can learn many things from them.once we admit at times that" we are ignorant"
YES !!!
Raising a bilingual 1 year old and thank god my country (Finland) has a good support system and we've been getting a lot of good advice already how to help his language development. This video definitely added a perspective and will think about this when supporting his growth!
Raising a bilingual too! Almost two now, but it's incredible how much they learn. She knows exactly which language to speak to whom and sometimes correctly translates words for me.
@@lelwanidingir3281 how do u do tht ?
Am a trilingual and sometimes i dunno which language should i speak to my child !
Mainly i speak english but i would love for her to speak other languages like me !
Sorry for answering late. I have the feeling I don't do anything beside consistently talking to her in one language. The rest is all her talent. I'm sure she will speak more languages later on, maybe it is just a question of patience. @@youssracherik6593
De jó kis videó, köszönöm. Kiegészíteném a meseolvasással, ami a fantéziát fejleszti korai kisgyermekkorban. Ja tőlem se kérje senki, hogy olvassak angolul fel, mivel rossz kiejtéssel rosszat tanulna tőlem a gyerek, de azt hozzátenném, ha egy nyelven valakinek megvan mindez egy másikra könnyebben tudja átfordítani az iskolában, óvodában.
if Pete's nanny is allowed to speak in her native language, Pete will be able to express better than Lucy when he grow up. More advantages and opportunities for Pete who can speak two languages. Too bad he has lazy parents.
Hi I am from India.... And particularly from Kerala.....When it comes mother tongue, we can easily learn it from the people we interact.... It's quite possible if the interaction is less you pick up the language slowly... But we all go to schools, right? There we have enough chance to improve our language.... And I think it's about a foreign language this video is about. It's for sure if you start learning a new language from childhood itself, you learn it quickly...... Thank you for a valuable information...
This is why universal pre-k is essential to the overall betterment of society. If you build up a strong foundation in the early years it becomes easier and children don’t have to struggle as much expressing themselves and getting what they need.
I'd love to immerse my future kids in a multilingual environment. Unfortunately I can only speak English and my Japanese skills - well, I can hold a basic conversation but that's it. If I were Petes parents I'd've encouraged the nanny to use her native language. I'd've asked her to use it with me too! When you speak it a person in their learned language, you speak to their head, but if you speak to a person in their native tongue, you speak to their heart.
It’s possible to speak from the heart in a second language. Kids in multi-lingual houses will often appear to have less language to the outside world, but, in truth, will have more total language because they are learning vocabulary in more languages. Eventually, the multi-lingual kid will catch up and exceed the monolingual kid in total language ability and knowledge. The multi-lingual kid will have a broader world and advantages beyond what the mono-lingual kid may ever have the capacity for even as an adult. In which case, it won’t matter what their kindergarten teacher thought at 4 years of age. BTW, It’s fine if the nanny spoke English to the kid. I don’t know where the creator got their information from but it wasn’t a linguist.
There are parallels in this story to that of helicopter parenting. In the story, the problem is the language barrier of the nanny. In the bubble wrapping child parallel, the problem is the hindered experiences from the nanny state that believe that EVERYTHING is dangerous and is overprotective. This results in the child is hindered greatly on exploring. Schools also focus on test scores so that they can receive maximum funding. They reduce free play because it gets in the way of precious study time.
My kid learn more from videos than from me. THere are a lot of phrases that he prefers using, but none that I actually taught him or use around him. I play baby einstein, which taught him some sign language as well. I also let him watch cocomelon and he learned the entire alphabet before he turned 2 with a dave and ava video. His favorite phrases are "hmm.. wait a second" and "oh wow, beautiful" he uses them in adorably appropriate situations and he learned both from blippi (as annoying as he is.) he also learned excavator, his longest word from blippi, as well as learned to play and sing with this videos. I almost didn't let him watch tv, but then I came across another video that suggested baby einstein, and I immediately saw his interest in communicating with me. Yes I had him seeing a speech therapist who prescribed different activities with him, but they didn't stick as well as the stuff he learned from videos. He is a pandemic baby and hasn't even interacted with other children and I was afraid that he wouldn't know how to play or communicate, but now hes very talkative and silly thanks to the many videos available online.
3:54 The rice-paddies hat for the Asian woman is uncalled for.
Yeah, I would have shared it if it weren't for that!
Yeah, really distasteful, I agree. Totally unnecessary.
That theory works for most people, but not the autistic - Einstein likely had autism like me. I went from 50 words and screaming, babbling and 1 word sentences on my sixth birthday to over 15,000 words by my 7th. What caused it, the equilibrium and contentment of early childhood being broken. Today a word test showed my vocab was around 40 - 55k, or twice as many as usual. My first words were "Gloucester Street" as I was reading street signs in the taxi on the way to Special school, the driver nearly drove off the road!
yes yes yes!! ive worked with some toddlers as a babysitter, and also watching my own little half sliblings (12-20 years age difference) and its so true, they can very clearly understand before actual speaking
I see parenting as an experiment, there is no one size fit all here neither. There is no need to feel pressured to “catch up”, but being the best parent you can be is what’s more important. Let the kids enjoy their childhood, play and have fun. Life will get progressively harder as they age so let them enjoy it.
What I've found heartbreaking here in Japan is the disproportionate number of kids coming up for 5 years of age that are missing significant developmental milestones, presumably because the three years from ages 1 to 4 have been spent at nurseries and kindergartens where nobody has a face because of enforced masking. Not seeing a person's face at that age when they're trying to talk to you means much of the nuance is lost, so the words just go in one ear and out the other. I know 5 year olds that are still in nappies and barely able to string a sentence together.
Wow, I didn't even think about this kind of situation with masking. My wife went through the daycare system in Japan and vowed to not do that to our kids, but to be with them
I really thing this is over simplified as there is more to communication than verbal and language communication. My husband had zero English fluency but was placed into an English speaking country at 16. His English is now fluent but with an accent, limited vocab and imperfect grammar, but he more than makes up for it through his observational skills. Because his English was so poor when he first arrived, he had to rely on reading tone, context and body language to guess what people were saying, consequently he's extremely astute to reading people's underlying thoughts and intentions. It's actually often an advantage, as he's not clouded by the words people are speaking (e.g. gauging when clients are being polite vs genuine interest).
Also even in Pete's example, his parents are less involved, not non-existent. I'm a firm believer in quality over quantity, if his parents even spend 30mins of quality time with him a day that might already be enough to bring his language level closer to Lucy. Also, as a parent, you don't actually have to be great at something yourself in order for your child to learn it. It's about providing support and encouragement. For example you can learn piano even if your parents don't know piano themselves, even if you only see the piano teacher 30mins a week as long as parents are supporting what the teacher is teaching by encouraging the piano practice etc.
The idea of language development is supported by the rich background knowledge that child is exposed to. There is the nature of the child existing already, but it has to be nurtured by environment by the home, school and community through the caregivers at home and school through language. Schema or background knowledge is slowly developed and so is the acquisition of language. Once the child has a rich background experience, it is easier for him or her to engage and interact on certain topics by reading, writing, speaking and writing using the vocabulary or words he she has acquired. You can only give what you have.
As a mom of bilingual kid, I can see my daughter's second language and first language vocab is less than a kid same age just learning one language. Listening to this now I'm not sure if it's gonaa get better in amy of those two languages in her life time. I always think it helps her to be more creative knowing two languages.
I’m sure she’ll have a very rich view on the world as long as she learn from natives.
I'm in early 30s and born between parents from completely different languages (who couldn't speak each others language very well), but don't think that's an issue. Reading books helped me a lot.
I moved countries in early teens as well and where I didn't know words, but the "struggle" was more down to cultural things (like what was popular in a certain country I didn't know about as I was not there), not the language itself and it wasn't a major issue.
I’m guessing she will learn English in school. Assure she takes formal lessons in her second language. For now, encourage her to express herself in both languages.
My son grew up in mostly English speaking house and Spanish speaking extended family. His English is impeccable (thanks to me). Once had started formally studying Spanish he found he was better than me in one semester, and better than his dad (Spanish is mother tongue) after the first year.
He studied foreign languages in university and is now also fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, and Portuguese.
As someone who speaks 4 languages and lives in the european continent i can guarantee you, your daughter will be fine, she will be ahead of most children in the future and most important, if the logic of this video was a rule, most europeans would not also speak 4 languages fluently and europe would not be ahead of the US education system in milestones. Rest assured if you follow the correct pedagogy and education process your daughter will be fine.
I speak to my baby in 4 languages, she is 1 year and 3 months she perfectly understands each command in all languages, French English Russian Kazakh. She loves books so much that she will chase you until you start to read or describe.
Even the purpose of the video is the language development, language alone is not what we call thinking. Language is more like labeling objects, whereas thinking is knowing the objects behind those words, seeing different ways in which those objects can interact, creating structures out of those objects in order to solve some problems we are confronted with. These structures are all around us, from music and painting, to medicine or government and politics. Language has a great importance in exchanging with others, however its role should not be overestimated.
I very rarely leave comments on youtube videos especially ones I'm forced to watch for school but man your artwork made this video super intriguing!!!
This video is interesting, I can help to reflect on my own upbringing and compare my experiences to this video. Although the language is a huge factor into anyone’s development (especially children) I believe our experiences limit our growth. For example many children who are being read too, spoken to etc. can be bullied or or observe very traumatizing events. How do these experiences impact their development? And if so how and what part of the brain is responsible in limiting the development? In a perfect world, we can do our best in aiding the development of our children, but as someone mentioned in the comments, their character/personality must coincide in order to have a successful result. That’s just my take. Also if Pete is at a disadvantage, how can he improve or “make up” for lost time after middle school or high school?
I guess the point is that language and learning it is so much more complex than we might think.
In this example, Pete was exposed to a limited vocabulary due to a nanny with reduced English proficiency. I see many comments asking why Pete's parents are also not communicating with him part of the day. We are forgetting that most children are raised by their parents and that most working and welfare class parents themselves have limited vocabularies and also limited social skills. The Bloomberg Providence Talks study showed that not only do children of working and welfare class families hear far fewer words (30 million fewer words by 3rd birthday), but that the words they hear are far less rich in content and nuances ("Don't do that!", "Stop!", "Do this now!"). The only answer to remedy this is to provide professional early education to all children or at least all disadvantaged children. Finland went from being mediocre in education outcomes to among the best in the western world in just a few years by starting formal early education as young as 6 months with very low student/teacher ratios (as low as 2/1 in early years) and highly qualified teachers (applicable advanced degrees required).
My guess is that Pete’s parents should have spent more time with him. Especially since there was a nanny who took all the “technical” care of the child during the weekdays. It’s much more possible to have rich and powerful connection with a child when you are not exhausted and pissed off after the whole day working and taking care of the child. 2-3 hours before sleep and weekends should provide a good amount of healthy communication for a language development.
Agreed!
Giving them books while young helps alot in nurturing the child's growth in not only learning but also understanding, reading and literature. Not to force it in general but to pique interest through themed/custom books such as *personalised childrens books*
Wow, thank you for this insightful video. Now, I know why I found it difficult to express my self in certain times in the past and still now haha. I was grown up in a Beber village in Morocco where we speak Berber. After that, I was sent to the school where we study all the subjects in classical Arabic while the teachers were teaching using Moroccan Arabic.
The Mind can't realize of every detail at once, but with years does build a huge belief system.
Progress and growth can be attributed to mindsets. Teaching children to be free thinking is key. There are a variety of ways to influence this outside of verbal/social situations. Creating miniature games or activities to stimulate their minds in general can help the other processes of human interaction. Just to clarify looking through the lense if extroverted/introverted personalities. Since a majority of my childhood involved isolation and self study to improve
My only comment is that children can learn from each other. Many children in the world develop sufficient language skills without extensive parent input to the extent this video is suggesting is necessary.
A very interesting topic, thank you. I think that he can definitely catch up, but it will be hard and will only get harder as he gets older. By the time he realises that he has some catching up to do it might be too late. A good teacher would see that he needs help and may help him.
Always interesting
And informative.
Thank you
Peace 💕🇺🇲
Sir your voice is amazing 💜💜
It is indeed naturally enticing.
The ability to develop a vocabulary is not just limited to 5 years. A child can develop the same at adolescent or early adulthood if reading is inculcated. Yes, Pete would have missed out on a lot of school learning and expressing, but if the inculcating has happened during schooling, there would be no missing. The point being, once the habit to read has been inculcated, it is directly proportional to the increased vocabulary , thereby, enhancing the ability of expression of ideas and creativity of an individual.
6:05 just a little mistake, if you name the chess piece Knight (the right way) then there's no horse... About the final question, it is most important how you apply your knowledge than the knowledge itself.
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The channel is created by some foreign nanny... 😂😂😂
Sad part is Pete can't control anything. You don't get to choose what situation you're born into. He might not even realize he was behind until puberty, when the gap widens and you know you're different. That's over a decade of wasted time. Tbh life is over by age 5 and you don't even know it
The best way to learn another language is to live where they speak that language. A stranger in a new land
Learns faster than in his own land. Shalowm
Amen. God is the one that changed our language and He knows when we need help Understanding,
Even his Word.!
I think that Pete will be bilingual and I also think that there are stereotypes in this video.
He won’t be bilingual, the language needs to be shared with the child in a meaningful way, clearly in this scenario the nanny only communicate with the child in broken English. What does stereotypes have to do with the subject at hand, stop trying to interject your cult into important conversations. It’s not about your cults beliefs it’s about creating better futures for our children.
He won't be bilingual because the nanny is not allowed to speak to him in her mother tongue. Such a shame.
ah, yes, the classic scenario where a white family hires a nanny who wears a vietnamese hat 24/7. how relatable!
Well in Asia you don't need to wear it
they never said the family was white. that dad could very well be latino or native american. how awkward.
I guess nows a bad time to mention that we wear rice hats over in my part of the world...
If you take out the rice hat I think it would actually be a sort of classical scenario. The rice hat was a great visual aid tho. Not all the people in the world dress the same, you know?
Yeah, I mean what the f* with the hat. Lol, so racist
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@@sprouts Yes, I will!
The Nanny with the Straw Hat..... I dont know whether to laugh or cry hahahha
I think Pete can catch up later in life but it will take much more work and willpower to learn.
What about bilingual children learning a foreign language in a foreign country? For example, I have a son. He is four now. He is sociable and talkative child. He has a wide range of vocabulary in his native language. So, I’m afraid that it would be very difficult for him to express himself and to communicate in the foreign country. He wouldn’t understand why other children don’t want to talk to him or don’t understand him. He couldn’t express himself clearly. I’m afraid that our moving will be very stressful for him and it will have negative impact on his personality. Should we cancel our decision in order not to hurt his psyche?Or are my fears unfounded and it would be not so stressful for him to learn another language through emigration in his young age?
It can be hard but it will be fruitful for his future
My cousins son can understand and speak 4 language when he is not even 8 and his future will be bright i dont think it will be easy for your child but setting up the foundation is important dont be discouraged by difficulties and things your child will have to go through
Sezgin Özcan thank you for support! I’m just a typical mother who is worried about mental health and wellness of her child. 😊 But you’re right. Difficulties make us stronger. And ultimately we gain more thanks to more complicated experiences.
@@nataliahoff5007 i wish i could emigrate to a better country too good luck with your emmigration process :)
Sezgin Özcan thank you so much!
Your classes are so helpful.. amazingly scheduled and within a short span of time more informations are provided.. can you please do such simple videos on vygotsky's language development theory, and personality theories of Adler, Carl Roger, Eric berne, catell..
I’m a Twin and me and my twin invented our own language bc we did not speak English until we were 5, our parents took us to a dr. Who said we may be autistic and may never speak but now my sister and I are seniors in highschool and she has a 4.0 gpa and I have a 3.7 non-weighted gpa. I wouldn’t say I’m the smartest but I am decent enough and what I lack in smarts I make up for in common sense. idk how language effected us.
Can you do a video about schemas, assimilation, and accommodation??
I would also like to see a video on schemas as well.
Balance is everything!
communication is one of the 8 Success Fundamentals for the 21st Century. The fact that it is not a more prevalent subject to study in our childhood years is beyond me. We can not speak that which we do not know. The more limited the vocabulary, the more tendency to poor behavior.
We get what we pay for or work for. Nobody is handing out a free education.
I have been learning English for 5years but unfortunately I can't to reach to fluency 😕
@@sayedsalah1143 keep at it... You will amaze yourself with what you will eventually do!!!
@@jlanemiller thanks for your support, if you one day come to Egypt I can help you to visit pyramids:-)
In an era of misinformation and invalid information, it is nice that you included some citations to back up the narrative. Some additional references would be good.
Ok. Will try to do better going forward
This happened in my home my son is delayed in language because he was not exposed to much conversation only at home with me, now he is exactly as the pette. It’s very hard and frustrating for him and me
Humans didn’t invent language. Even crows can tell each other things and the other crowd then know things they’ve never directly experienced
The inaccuracy of this opening makes me question everything later
No one going to comment on the children who all died of neglect...? Man I am glad science has changed a bit.
Sir your voice is amazing
Thank you Sagar!
Brilliant! The ending!
My 5-year-old child can speak a little but understand more english, filipino and german. I talk to him in filipino, we live in germany so he knows that language the best. When we watch kid's show, we watch them in english. He also hears us speak a bit of french and korean (we watch kdrama once in a while😁).
Thank you for sharing this information with us.
i loved the illustrations
Can I ask if you based this on a psychologist' theory? If yes, whose theory? Hope you can reply to this.. Need it for a project. Thanks.
I moved to the United States when I was 3. My brothers were were 4 and 8. All 3 of us are more proficient in English than our native Russian. My eldest speaks better Russian than I do because he moved back. However, I speak better Russian than my middle brother because I practice it more.
Before I had my first class I had a beautiful childhood, but I never learned how to calculate and I was an immigrant. So I couldn't understand what the teacher was saying and my mom couldn't teach me mathematics. So I read a lot to learn the language but missed first math classes.
I got my a levels because math was not part in it. I'm so thankful because I'm 20 and I use my fingers to calculate :D language is so important! I think that's the only reason why I'm so bad with math. I had a Traumata because numbers were hieroglyphics to me. My teacher knew I was an immigrant but never helped me.
These kind of oversimplified analysis give guilt in working mom, and Pete can catch up because kids are resilient to their difficulties
Oh I enjoyed, sir your voice is also good.
Any stimulus around a child causes response which is reaction in some form as format or pattern for observation to know more about the concerned child.
The stimuli are in nature and responses are natural.
Explained in best mannner about language
Thanx
I always felt parents who gave all kinds of learning gadgets out of fear that they weren't as capable or that they were just plain lazy. It's good to also know the neurological explanation behind the brain development.
It often happens to parents that are bilingual themselves and have to introduce more than one language. After a certain phase, lets say after entering elementary school. children can finally focus and learn new vocabulary from different sources.
Language is one thing, but there are so many different ways to express yourself, so don't worry, to really maneging a language takes more than five years to master, pete can still catch up if he want.
True
Also didn't talk until for from our house being multlingual and our half sister and cousin at 2, fluidly, abroad?
I grow up as a child in the 1960's . I was classified by the education system as being medially retarded. I didn't pronounce very well, could not read at my appropriate age and did not have the knowledge that my peers had. I remember just looking out the window day dreaming because I had no interest with what the teacher was saying. My parents was told that I was retarded and would never be equal in learning with the other students. I was put in special ed. When I was 12 years old I was watching a Jacques Cousteau documentary (a famous scuba diver) and I told my teachers that I wanted to be a scuba diver and I wanted to read about scuba diving (we had no computers then). They just smiled at me and gave me the same baby books they gave me year after year. They told my dad not to encourage me because it would only hurt me when I find out that I was not capable of doing such things. My dad did not listen to them. He find a diving instructor that would teach me and my dad. I started learning how to read books. I got a 99% correct on my diving test (the school teachers said that the dive instructor and my dad was lying). That changed my life. I was also interested in Electronics and Aviation. By the age of 16 I was a certified privet pilot. By the age of 18 I joined the Air National Guard and became a Avionic Technician (repairing aircraft electronics). Pretty good for someone who is retarded ! !
Thanks for sharing! That is inspiring :)
Wow, this video was very good!
Great video!!😄😊
My son, 3 and half years old, grows up in a trilingual family, living in a place speaks the fourth language, now speaking two languages as dominate language, just started picking up the third language from the local kindergarten. But he does not speaking a word of daddy’s language. So Is it Pete’s disadvantage in language because of the Nanny? Or are his parents absent from his life too much?
The Bloomberg studies (Providence Talks) show that children of working and welfare class families have a huge deficit by their 3rd birthday and more by the time they start 1st grade compared to children of middle and upper-class families.
Then we make it worse by grouping all the children from working and welfare class families in one set of schools different from the schools attended by children with larger vocabularies (of middle and upper-class families). (Due to neighborhood schools and neighborhood segregation by socio-economic class.) This grouping of children with smaller verbal vocabularies separate from children with larger verbal vocabularies deprives the children with smaller vocabularies of the opportunities to increase their vocabularies through interaction with children with larger verbal vocabularies.
Then we typically teach reading using phonetics on the assumption that if a child can pronounce a word they will recognize it from their verbal vocabulary. This is not the case for children with smaller verbal vocabularies. The reduced vocabulary and reading proficiency of this group of children will significantly slow the ability of these children to learn most other things in life, especially academic subjects.
Then we take another step that makes things worse. We have state or national guidelines as to what should be taught when based on average learning speeds. But we have entire schools of slow learners (not because of inherent abilities but rather late preparation) and schools of much faster learners (who were simply exposed much earlier to more vocabulary). Asking them to progress at the same speed means that the material being taught will quickly move beyond what the students in schools with a high % of disadvantaged children are able to keep up with, rendering education in those schools next to useless for many of those students. Then we wonder why the education outcomes in poor communities are so much worse than in wealthier communities and why dropout rates and crime in those neighborhoods are so much greater.
What's the answer? Finland went from being mediocre in education outcomes compared to other countries to being the best in the western world in just a few years. They made a number of changes such as banning private schools which put many children with the bigger vocabularies back in the mix with other children. But perhaps the biggest impact was providing very high-quality preschool starting as young as 6 months in age. And with student/teacher ratios varying from 2/1 in lower years to 7/1 at age 6 with highly qualified preschool teachers with advanced degrees in child psychology and pedagogics.
Doing that would greatly reduce any vocabulary gap going into 1st grade and the beginning of learning to read.
What do others of you think?
Nice
Yes, there's plenty of chances for Peter to catch up.. There are so many types of intelligence besides the verbal one. And.. over the course of our lifes we continue to learn so many things.
I have seen so many of these drawn animations that I cannot watch them anymore. I experience them as common, trite, agitating, and distracting rather than supportive of the content. I no longer watch them and only listen to the lecture which I do appreciate.
Yes he can catchup later in life if gets that extra help in time.