I don't wanna preach how to raise children, but picking esperanto as a second language to teach the kids is going to be a very uphill battle.
It's not the native language of anyone, especially in the family so they are not going to be as exposed to it as one would in a family with a non- english native. And then there's no esperanto anywhere else so they are going to learn quickly they don't need it at all except for when daddy says something in esperanto.
growing up bilingual is much easier when your immediate family / community speak the "first language"
now that im surrounded by Americans, its much harder to justify the mental load of teaching a non-scholastic second language when there is no community to reinforce what youve learned beyond rote learning exercises. im not convinced multiple languages made me smarter either...
> im not convinced multiple languages made me smarter either...
I used to work in the language learning space, and I personally think that the idea that speaking multiple languages makes you smarter is mostly a myth. It definitely does expand your mind a bit and gives you the ability to express some ideas more concisely, but I don’t feel like it’s made me smarter in the same way that learning to code, or reading books has.
I don't wanna preach how to raise children, but picking esperanto as a second language to teach the kids is going to be a very uphill battle.
It's not the native language of anyone, especially in the family so they are not going to be as exposed to it as one would in a family with a non- english native. And then there's no esperanto anywhere else so they are going to learn quickly they don't need it at all except for when daddy says something in esperanto.
It is a native language of a few thousand people, per the article.
Most Esperanto natives are from parents who don't speak each other's native language and use Esperanto to communicate.
Given that the parents aren’t native Esperanto speakers themselves, would this make the version of Esperanto that the children speak a sort of Creole?
growing up bilingual is much easier when your immediate family / community speak the "first language"
now that im surrounded by Americans, its much harder to justify the mental load of teaching a non-scholastic second language when there is no community to reinforce what youve learned beyond rote learning exercises. im not convinced multiple languages made me smarter either...
> im not convinced multiple languages made me smarter either...
I used to work in the language learning space, and I personally think that the idea that speaking multiple languages makes you smarter is mostly a myth. It definitely does expand your mind a bit and gives you the ability to express some ideas more concisely, but I don’t feel like it’s made me smarter in the same way that learning to code, or reading books has.