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RE: 📚 Monkey-B's Khmer Literacy Is Improving 🔖 & The @KidSisters Gear Up For Their Hive Re-Introductions 👩🎨
Hmmm....did he start at a young age with Chinese reading/writing? I can imagine it's very difficult because it's not phonetic like Khmer. A Khmer student can learn another language without learning how to read or write it, simply using Khmer letters to approximate the sounds.
I once taught a Korean student who wanted to learn how to speak more English, but didn't care about reading and writing. He wrote everything in Korean characters, and I didn't know until then that Korean was a phonetic system. I can't even how a Chinese person could learn another language without learning their alphabet first 🤔. Is learning pinyin common there in the Chinese schools?
I'm sure little man will get it, after all, you Malaysians tend to be gifted with languages. I know you speak English/Mandarin in the home, right? Do you also speak Malay in your home with each other?
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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