珠海一幼儿园首开粤语教学 One of the Kindergartens in Zhuhai Start to Teach Cantonese For First

Nowadays, elementary and secondary schools are trying their best to promote Mandarin, while some dialects are pushed aside. In recent years, the argument about the abolition and protection of Cantonese has been existed constantly. The principal of Zhuhai Boai Kindergarten, Chen Shouhong said that she went to Beichuan, Sichuan province for investigation in 2009 found that the local Qiang ethnic children can only speak a little their local language, and most of them couldn’t write. This reminds her of Cantonese; reminds the gradual loss of southern Cantonese culture.

目前中小学校大力推广普通话，一些地方方言反被晾在了一边。近年来，关于粤语存废与保护的争论一直不断。珠海博爱幼儿园园长陈守红说，她2009年到四川的北川考察，发现当地羌族孩子对本民族语言只会说一点点了，并且绝大部分小孩已不会书写。这种现象让她联想到粤语，让她联想到岭南文化的逐渐流失。

Chen Shouhong realized that to protect the local culture should grab from baby in an exchanging meeting of Cantonese culture inheritance with the Cantonese Artists. Boai kindergarten will hold a festival every year. To introduce Cantonese opera, children have to learn Cantonese. So Chen Shouhong decided to start teaching Cantonese.

在一次与粤剧艺人交流粤文化传承时，陈守红意识到，保护本土文化应该从娃娃抓起，博爱幼儿园每年要举办一次戏剧节，如果引进粤剧，必须让孩子学会粤语。因此陈守红决定：开始粤语教学。

Chen Shouhong said that according to the education department, Zhuhai Boai kindergarten is still mainly teaching Mandarin at present.

陈守红说，根据教育部门规定，目前珠海博爱幼儿园小朋友的教学依然以普通话为主，粤语将通过其他有趣的方式让小朋友接触。

Zhuhai is an immigrant city. Many families are spoken Mandarin, and children also grow up in this context.

珠海是一座移民城市，不少家庭讲的是普通话，小孩从小也在这种语境下长大。

For the phenomenon that Zhuhai Boai kindergarten teaches Cantonese, the supportive parents are more. One parent thinks that learn Cantonese is not only learning the local culture, but also let children learn a language skill. It is good for the kids, no matter they will life in Guangdong or go abroad in the future. But there are also some parents worried about it would be a stress for the kids to learn Mandarin, English, and Cantonese.

对于珠海博爱幼儿园开展粤语教学，持支持态度的家长比较多。一位家长认为，学习粤语除了可以了解本土文化，更重要的是让孩子掌握一项语言技能。无论今后孩子在广东生活还是出国，都有益处。但也有家长担忧，现在小孩既学普通话，又学英语，再学粤语，是否成为一种压力？