Beginners do need slow English. Cartoons are not for most of them. But there is a way to use Cartoons properly for biginners, you can solw down the normal speech a liitle bit When you repeat it, and add something to it, so they can catch every detail of the language and understand it a lot better. They need to get used to the sound of English. After a year or two, you can add reading in addition to the listening. Read story books, novels or Science fictions, not textbooks. Over time, your English ability builds.
Guess what? I'm 40 and still learn English everyday and enjoy it.
I can understand much more, but this is what I can actually use, I mean, plain English.
新人进来说两句,注册这个论坛的目的就是为了陪宝宝学英语,宝宝现在2岁8个月,一直坚持中文绘本阅读。但是英文一直没有训练,期间宝爸去美国进修1年多,我也一直期望把英文的教育交给他,谁知他回来后工作特别忙,根本没时间。所以我从12月份开始下决心自己来。但是自己的英文是哑巴英语加多年不用。所以我也是选择儿歌和动画片结合的方式。白天我上班,就是老人在家里放儿歌,儿歌是60多首反复放,在宝宝的游戏间里。晚上会看粉红猪,一般是看两遍中文,然后开始看英文,其实我心里也在嘀咕她究竟了解多少,但是宝宝很有兴趣,不管中文英文都很喜欢,一张碟看10天左右,再看下一张。这么短的时间我也不能评估宝宝究竟有没有掌握更多的单词。最近晚上加了一本英文绘本的阅读,是严格的分级读物,最初的一本书就是one apple two apple至ten apple,宝宝平时也没有应用。经常挂在嘴边的还是几首英文歌,我的发音不准,总怕影响到宝宝的发音,我觉得儿歌和动画片是我现在能使用的唯一工具。我自己也开始重新学习,上班路上都开始听自己刻的英语光盘。我非常想找到一条适合我和宝宝的英语学习之路。
我家打小就没有8点多睡过觉的,呵呵。