We all want our children to becomprehensively developed. And the concept of comprehensive development necessarily includes knowledge of foreign languages. After all, it is not only prestigious, but also extremely useful. In the process of learning languages, children develop memory, attention, ability to concentrate, flexibility of thinking, perseverance and erudition. Well, and, finally, knowledge of foreign languages testifies to a person's education and his ability to work. Scientists say that the left hemisphere is responsible for learning a foreign language. It is in it that phonetic, grammatical and syntactic knowledge is stored. As for the right hemisphere, it remembers the skills of pronunciation of foreign words and, thanks to figurative memory, various designations of words from other languages. This is another plus of learning foreign languages: it perfectly develops the right hemisphere. For example, the success of the inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun in the field of high technology is explained by the harmonious functioning of both hemispheres of the brain, achieved due to the fact that Japanese writing is several thousand hieroglyphs denoting individual concepts. By remembering all these hieroglyphs, the Japanese contribute to the joint development of both the left and right hemispheres. But in Chinese, the meaning of words depends on the tone in which they are pronounced, and the same word, pronounced in a different tone, can mean completely different concepts. And there can be quite a lot of these tones. The musical center of the right hemisphere is responsible for the difference in tones. Therefore, learning Chinese helps to develop a good ear for music in a child. Both Japanese and Chinese are the most difficult languages to learn. However, they are also the most useful, since the harmonious development of both hemispheres contributes to the psychological progress of the person himself. You should start learning foreign languages with children as early as possible. The later it starts, the more difficult it will be. Researchers are sure that a child can learn foreign languages almost from infancy, since at this age the brain will transfer both languages to one part of the brain. And the right hemisphere will also remember some words, storing information about the nuances of pronunciation and intonation. Thus, at an early age, foreign speech will be remembered on an equal basis with the native language.
For children who have begun to study foreign languageslanguages only after eight years, all information about them will be deposited in another center of the brain and only in the left hemisphere. As a result, in order to extract data from this center, a person will need additional time. In addition, the accent and pronunciation when studying languages from this age usually leave much to be desired, and it is quite difficult to improve them. In children up to nine to twelve years old, the brain structures are still flexible, so they are able to master two or three languages \u200b\u200bat the same time. Therefore, in the case when parents want the child to speak several languages \u200b\u200bfluently, they should start teaching him very early. If only a basic level of knowledge is enough, the child can be sent from six to seven years to a special language learning center or club. Some parents believe that at an early age, piling up knowledge is not advisable, since children are still poorly developed and cannot think plastically enough. However, this is not so - additional loads force the brain to develop and increase the intellectual level of children. The best way to learn a foreign language with them is to speak it. If parents do not speak the language perfectly, they can give their child basic knowledge: knowledge of letters and simple words. Of course, this will require a lot of patience, but learning your native language is also not easy. Children quickly memorize new words, but they also forget them just as quickly. Therefore, the child needs to be reminded of words or phrases until he or she has learned them well. In no case should you raise your voice, but on the contrary, you must praise for the slightest success. Of course, you will need the help of specialists in learning languages. When choosing courses and clubs, you need to focus on those that are designed for preschoolers. This also applies to tutors, because school teachers are not always aware of the specifics of teaching young children. Teaching methods for schoolchildren are focused on logical thinking, and preschool children are taught based on visual-figurative thinking. Therefore, in order for the child to learn easily, he needs to buy books with bright illustrations, pictures, games, cartoons in the language he is studying. The child's learning should be done in a playful way, interestingly and without coercion. Otherwise, foreign languages will cause a negative reaction in the child, and he will learn them with difficulty. Everything needs to be done gently, unobtrusively, with love.
