Time For The Next Poll
Author: utbt23 Feb 2010
This survey is closed. I will sort through the answers and will get back to you all with the results. Once again thanks for making the time to do this. (updated Feb28th, Sunday)
This is sparked by the home language discussion and second language learning that is currently buzzing around the blog-o-sphere.
*There are 9 questions.
* If you have any additional information that you would like to share, please use the comments section or send me an email at utbtkids@gmail.com
* You can choose to be anonymous while participating in the poll.
* Poll will be open till Feb 28th, Sunday, 9.00PM.
Poll results here.
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60 Responses for "Time For The Next Poll"
hey i just responded to the survey. where does it show up?
UTBT SAYS: Thanks for responding. I have to log in to WP as ADMIN and look at the Dashboard. Will do. Thanks again.
done!
UTBT SAYS: Thanks
Done Mam.
UTBT SAYS: Thanks
Done! And thanks!
UTBT SAYS: Thanks for making the time.
Hey…that was a nice survey. Let me know the outcome.
UTBT SAYS: Gasping for breath. That was a surprise
Thanks 
Done! Interesting survey!
done ma’am
I am curious to know the objective of your survey
Done and waiting to see the survey results…
Done !!
No kids yet. But I wrote down what I think I’d do. Looking fwd to the results!
I just submitted it.
Done!
i did in the morning. hope its counted in. thanks
Very interesting, utbt. Look fwd to the follow up post
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Done. Hope it helps. If you need additional inputs (given Krish’s speech delays and therapy etc) feel free to mail me anytime..
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done! very interesting.
actually would love to see the results. Cubby seems to be at a disadvtange now because he is more comfy with Hindi rather than English and every other kids sems to communicate only in angrezi.
ofcos with school and now me taking effort to speak to him he is learning fast, but still wonder how many actually bother speaking in their local lingo!
cheers~!
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done! got the link thru Art!we are multilingual at home and my kid, who is allof 3.5 years already knows tthree different languages apart from English. But like Krian’s Krish, my daughter also has speech delay or apraxia of speech, a very mild case.If you need more info on this get in touch.
Poppins mom forced me to do this one
Interesting survey. Would like to know where it leads… Good luck
Me too done…
Done, dude.
where did my comment go?!!!!
ofcos the survey is done!
I just wanted to know the purpose of the survey. I have done it already.
Done. Just wanted to add that Konkani, our mother tongue doesn’t have a script of its own, we use Kannada or Devnagiri script.
Done. Thought it was really bad that I dodn’t learn to read and write our mother tongue, Kannada. Hope we’ll get to learn it in a couple of months as we are moving to B’lore
Got here following a suggestion from fellow blogger. Completed survey
Done with the survey. Just wanted to add… Shruti seems to have a slight stammering problem… more like she knows what she wants to say, but since there’s so much to say, her brain is not able to process it all at one shot. This is supposedly fairly common at her age and will hopefully disappear as she grows older, provided she is NOT made conscious of it! I’m having a tough time explaining it to people who think she’s playing the fool and try to imitate her!
Anyways… my point for all this rambling… one of the reasons for this speech problem may be attributed to the fact that she is exposed to too many languages simultaneously at such a young age… Tamil, Kannada, English and Hindi.
Curious to know the reason and outcome of the survey!
Done – came here from Madmomma – very interesting, would like to know the results and the reason.
Done. Though I wrote some extra-long answers to some questions (effect of taking too many History/Geography exams in school I guess). Hope this is fine
Done!!Waiting to hear the outcome.Also,fwding to some friends.
Done!! I loved the survey very kool!
done !
Done. When will the results be out ?
I made a small mistake though
For my almost 5 year old, I’ve written she _reads_ and understands Hindi, English, Bengali and Marathi. Umm…she only understands these languages and is just learning to read English.
Hope you can correct it.
Done the poll. Do let us know the outcome of this survey. Thanks.
Edit for older child: French as well – R, W, part U, part T
Done utbt.
Actually when Abi was in preKG, her teacher asked me to speak to her in English as she was finding it difficult to follow the instructions but I never obliged her. Also, when in first standard they first started teaching Tamil and taught like “pandhu means ball”, i was psyched and went and wrote my feedback. But to my disappointment, many tamil words abi needs to know what it is called in English to make the connection. Though I am not a language fanatic, I want my daughter to be well proficient in her mother tongue and that is the reason I didn’t choose Hindi as her second language.
Done. thank you…
have done my survey as well.
@Vidooshak: Thanks! Sweet of you!
@utbt: Now where’s my treat eh?
@Indu: I didn’t know Kaju has a speech issue?! This is news
i didnt actually click on any “next” icon…i could write in the spaces any way. hope you could register the results
Poppy, she does…a mild case of apraxia of speech…she will be starting on the speech therapy soon…i didnt tell this coz i wasnt sure as to what her problem was…
UTBT SAYS:
115 survey responses so far. I appreciate every one making the time to do this. I owe you all an explanation for the survey. I assure you there is one. Survey closes on Sunday. I will be out with the answers/reason after that.
Special thanks to friends who linked it up on their blogs, FB, Twitter and pestered their friends and neighbors
Came here from Mad Momma. Very interesting. ‘Languages’ is of special interest to me. Would love to know the results
Came here from Mad Momma…Interesting poll…
and oh! Done it as well
Really interesting survey
waiting to know the results.
Done Madam
Sorry, didn’t check your mail until this morning. I hope I made it before 9.00 pm on 28th Feb
, considering it is 8.30 am March 1st for me.
English has become a tool for survival in the globalised era. Of late the Chinese and the Japanese have understood its value
UTBT SAYS: China and Japan are different in the sense they both have one official regional language to deal with. There are dialects I have heard, but they have been methodically phased out by the govt over the past years. Even in China and Japan, English is being introduced in middle school level and that is a recent change in the past 10 yrs.
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