Your Children Can Easily Learn and Speak their Mother's Tongue Using These Simple Methods.

           Culture is how we live, who we are and what we do. What we know about our culture today, is what our parents and grandparents taught us.
       
           One day, children will become parents and grandparents too but what a great shame it will be, if all they have, is the ‘nothing’ that you taught them to pass on, then it is a big-time disgrace.
 
           In this Modern day and Computer World, we live, it is very sad to see that most Nigerian children can’t speak our local languages fluently. At this rate, in a few years time, some of these local languages will go extinct. Parents must now realize that they owe their children their language and must therefore teach them compulsory.

        So, playing our part in saving Nigeria’s dying local dialects, ELVISUPDATE in this piece brings to you FIVE SIMPLE METHODS to teach your kids your language.
1.                                Start Early with Them
For those of you, whose kids are underway, well you are in luck because the best way to start is to start early. Every infant is born with the ability to...
mimic the sounds of any language. But by the time a baby is about 10 months old, he begins to narrow down the range of sounds to those that he hears around him. So if you want your child to learn a second language, it’s best to introduce it in the first year of life. So if you and your wife don’t speak the same language, the best bet is to have one parent or caregiver speak the second language to the baby all the time so he has a chance to become fully “immersed” in it.
2.                                 Be Consistent with Them
Put as much effort as you put in teaching your child English into teaching him your local language and do it often too, that way you have a better success rate for your child not only understand the language you speak, but to actually speak it.
3.                                  Make it Enjoyable
When a child feels like they’re being taught something, they can tune out and become disinterested very quickly. Instead making your local language feel like another form of mathematics class for your kid(s), just make it normal and fun exactly how your parents taught you.
4.                                  Be determined
Some people are often confused on what language an infant whose parents constantly speak two languages(English and their local language) will speak first or the embarrassment when the kids  start to mix the two languages in one sentence. Truth is, the mixture will happen at some point but would stop eventually. this shouldn’t deter you, as those people you’re trying to imitate now, would give anything to be you later, when you can have a decent conversation with your child in your language.
5.                                 Holidays at Grandparents
If you or your wife still have parents, ensure your child(ren) visit them often and you know most grandparents feel naturally inclined to pass on their language to their grand kids.

           Nigerian Parents should please for God's sake let the teachers take English at schools, but ensure that mother's tongue should be spoken more often than English at home.