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Don't learn English too early and too much
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you in English because I cannot type Chinese easily on
the computer. It is my fault and I will spend time to improve it.
I am completely a Chinese and I do not agree that our children should
learn English too much and too early.
When a child learns English, because its mind and thinking is still not
sound, the effect is confusion of the mind. During the learning of
English, they forget about Chinese, and when learning Chinese, they
forget the English. The efforts cancel each other nothing gets learnt. We
lose very much time and gets nothing in return.
They should be learning Chinese so that they can speak with confidence,
and think logically.
That is why we see Hong Kong students are failing. They can't think in
Chinese and on the other hand no matter how hard they learn English, they
can't defeat a native tongue in their language.
Please do not teach English or just teach how to read simply things
before the age of 20. My experience tells and facts tell that when it is
needed , a second language is best learnt when pratising in real work.
Let the children eatablish a sound mind in the Chinese language. Save the
time and use it to learn science and history and others in Chinese. The
knowledge to be gained before 20 years old are in fact very basic and
there is nothing that we do not have in the Chinese language.
A 50-year old Hong Kong Chinese who has been learning English since 10
years old.
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