Does your child still speak the dialect of your hometown? What are your views on the inheritance of dialects?

Children born in rural areas of Guangdong can speak Cantonese

Everyone is familiar with Cantonese in Guangdong Province. People in most areas of Guangdong can speak Cantonese, even if there are other places where they were born. Most of the local dialects can speak fluent Cantonese when they grow up. My children and I are all the same. However, although the hometown dialect in many places in Guangdong is Cantonese, the accents in each place are very different, and the differences are quite big. The more authentic Cantonese is Cantonese. In addition, people in Shenzhen also speak more authentic Cantonese. In other places, Cantonese is also more authentic. The Cantonese accents vary greatly. I didn’t learn Mandarin until I went to kindergarten

My hometown speaks Hakka with local characteristics, which is difficult for people outside to understand. I grew up in such an environment, so I can naturally speak my hometown dialect, even though I study I speak very little about work and work, but because I communicate with people at home in my native dialect, I have never felt unfamiliar.

My husband’s native dialect is Cantonese, so my daughter has been learning Cantonese since childhood. I even spent two or three months with her practicing Mandarin with her before she went to kindergarten. Fortunately, children have a relatively strong ability to learn languages. Although their Mandarin was still very poor when they went to school, after two or three months of school, they have learned Mandarin very well, but their Cantonese has become unfamiliar again. Dialects should be passed on

I think dialects, as distinctive local languages, should be passed down from generation to generation and should not be allowed to be lost, otherwise it will be a great loss to Chinese culture. Although many of us now live in cities and speak more Mandarin or other major languages ??spoken by more people, we can try our best to expose our children to the dialects of our hometowns and encourage them more Open your mouth and speak in tongues. As far as I know, many children are born in cities and do not have an environment to speak dialects. Therefore, many people born in the 80s, 90s, and 00s cannot speak dialects, or even understand the dialects of their hometowns. I feel that this is a pity. thing.