To all of you native English speakers

Just want to ask, how did your parents teach you how to speak? Or to be exact, how did parents in English-speaking country teach their babies how to speak?

Just want some tips on how to teach English to a kid in advance. I know, she's only 4 months old, but it's better to think early about kids education, isn't it?

The same way as most other countries teach their own language.

Well, kids will start picking up on it if you speak it frequently during early childhood. Then when they get into school, you can have them attend English classes.

I wish I had Gordon Ramsay voice cause then I could say...

Fuck you! your food is shit! and your shit! ^__^

I was taught English first due to a speech disability.

Anime, Nintendo and the internet taught me English.

在家裡我們一般都是用中文.

You need to temporarily ban yourself.

This forum is a primarily english speaking community, and you are required to feel bad.

Also, as said, talk english frequently around them, and they'll pick it up slowly. also try repeating words to them sometimes?

Maybe read to her and anything you show her say the english counterpart? And everyone goes to school to learn the alphabet and learn grammar in kindergarten but there are all sorts of language programs for kids and even babies I think you can buy offline.

Most of us were taught as we grew with examples, a mother pointing to her husband saying "dad", a teaching showing a child an image and saying "fire truck". If it's the first language you're teaching the child it's as easy as teaching a child any language. It's when you try teaching it a second language that things become muddled, at the age of 4 a child will have serious problems coming to terms with multiple languages and multiple "sounds" to mean the same thing.

didn't Mice already poke a fun about this?

i was an A grade student in English speaking & writing from Elementary to high school but i started to learn it from 4th Grade.
so maybe you don't have to let her learn English that early if i were you.

Well my mom and friends often read to me and just talked to me. I picked up naturally from things I heard.

I learned through TV.

I am amazed that my mind was able to translate that (okay, not really, I got help from my old Eng-Chi, Chi-Eng dictionary).

That's true also for my family, except they speak 咱侬话, which is a variation of 福佬话 instead of 中文.

If only I knew the pin yin (or what ever) of 咱侬话, I would have put a straight sentence here.

Here's a tip, talk to her in English as often as you talk to her in Indonesian. She'll understand both eventually. Just like my little niece.

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My mother taught me via only using English and the tv show 'Sesame Street.' Also Catalan the same way.

Like others have said, talk to her as if you were talking to her in Indonesian. Just show her a picture of a dog in English and a picture of a dog in Indonesian. And just so you do not worry in the future, kids who are bilingual usually speak later than kids who are not due to the fact that their undeveloped brains have to sort out and learn the differences between the two languages.

In today's age though, a lot of people plop their kids in front of the TV and just leave stuff like Sesame Street on for awhile. While it is effective and an easy way to keep them occupied, make sure you don't do it too much.

Even though my parents taught me Spanish first, I picked up English almost instantly.