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RE: 📚 Monkey-B's Khmer Literacy Is Improving 🔖 & The @KidSisters Gear Up For Their Hive Re-Introductions 👩🎨
The challenge being, the mother is not Chinese literate. And when we talk about mother tongue, it literally follows the mother. Therefore, I'm having trouble to even trying to communicate with him. I can speak to him in Chinese, but he will reply me in English.
Pinyin can only do a small portion in helping the pronunciation. You can't put a row of Pinyin on a paper and ask another person to read the Pinyin and understand what it said.
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Oh man, sounds like a similar situation in my house, except you are dealing with many more languages. Your wife is a Malay/English speaker right? Well, even though I am a stepdad and didn't even speak English to my stepdaughters for the first two years, they now prefer to speak English with each other when alone, and even when I speak Khmer to them, they often answer in English. When they have some serious emotional things to work through, English is the only language they will use.