孩子到底学不学中文？ 英国华人家长的多选题

我家孩子以前说中文，每个字都对，但听起来像歪果仁。现在，她可以用中文跟奶奶抱怨功课太多了。抱怨爸爸又双叒叕讨人嫌了。这期节目聊一个在英国华人家长圈里一个常见的问题：在英国出生、在英国长大的孩子，要不要学中文？我有一对教授朋友，两位华人，孩子在家只说英文。理由充分。我自己给孩子每周末上中文网课。理由也充分。我们都觉得对方说得有道理，然后各走各的路。这期节目不给标准答案。但会聊聊双语研究说了什么，语言和人的关系，以及那个一旦错过就很难捡回来的窗口期。My daughter used to speak Chinese the way a translation app reads a dictionary — every word correct, every sentence slightly wrong.Now she calls her grandmother and complains about homework in Chinese and various misbehave of dad.This episode is about a common question among Chinese parents living in the UK: should children born and raised in the UK learn Mandarin?I have friends — two Chinese academics, both professors — who speak only English to their children at home. Their reasoning is solid. I run weekly Mandarin lessons for my daughter via video call with a teacher in China. My reasoning is also solid. We both nodded respectfully at each other's arguments and went home to carry on with our own roadmap.This episode doesn't tell you what the right answer is. But it does look at what the bilingual research actually says — not the kind forwarded in parent WeChat groups, the real kind, including the parts that complicate the cheerful headline.It also talks about language and identity, the language learning window that closes faster than you think.