https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:35:53 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-49736 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:08:59 +0000 mrsjyw 49736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, Korean School before Sunday School every Sunday for 1.5 hours. We also spent Saturdays doing Korean homework from our mom. I hated it at the time, but I'm grateful to be fluent in my native language now that I'm older. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-49687 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:16:32 +0000 SoCloseToHeaven 49687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't but I would like my future children to. My husband's family only speaks a Chinese dialect though so I'm not sure if that would even be possible.</p> <p>I have a friend who is half filipino/white and I feel really bad for her because she feels really excluded at family gatherings since she doesn't speak Tagalog (her father didn't want a language he didn't understand spoken at home). I don't want my children to experience that as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-49683 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:40:52 +0000 Red 49683@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup, Chinese school - 2 hours a day, 3 days a week for 8 years. I graduated knowing how to read and write basic Chinese but I've forgotten a lot of it since. However, I do have really fond memories of the friends I had in class. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-49024 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:48:15 +0000 Boogs 49024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, but I wish I had. My mom was a single parent, so a mix of not being able to afford it and not always having a way to get us there prevented us from going. My DH did go and didn't mind it, so we are planning on sending our LO. My hope is that he will be much more fluent than I am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-49005 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:44:55 +0000 Wagon Sr. 49005@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yep, but only sporadically. </p> <p>nothing helped more in learning about my language/heritage (Korean) than actually living there for a month back in college. i achieved fluency in about three weeks and felt more in touch with my roots than any other time. all wore off after about two months back in the states. </p> <p>It's hard to imagine fully retaining our original culture alongside being Americans, especially without any 1st generationers in our daily lives, but we're okay with that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-48961 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:42:16 +0000 pastemoo 48961@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yes </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-48839 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:39:16 +0000 BSB 48839@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, I did. I hated it though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-48836 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:37:11 +0000 Clementine 48836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, Korean school every Saturday, but it was never really effective because the teachers were always volunteers who didn't know how to teach the language. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46820 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:41:44 +0000 msmug 46820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>korean school every saturday morning from 9am-noon for 6 years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46818 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:39:30 +0000 tequiero21 46818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i went to korean school offered at church. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46678 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:51:02 +0000 mrsjyw 46678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went to korean school for an hour each Sunday before church. There's also an all day session on Saturdays at a Korean building near where I grew up, but we never participated because my parents worked longer hours and we never had rides. I'm so thankful that I speak/write Korean fluently, but I'm also glad to have had normal Saturdays at home. The 1 hour Sunday morning session wasn't terrible! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46560 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:06:39 +0000 Mrs. Bee 46560@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@highwire: wow that is a lot! i went to korean school every saturday. so worth it because i learned how to read and write. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46526 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:27:09 +0000 heffalump 46526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went to Hebrew school on Tuesday nights. Then we also did Sunday school and Monday night school to learn about Judaism. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46505 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:09:26 +0000 Rubies 46505@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Korean school every Saturday morning from 9am-noon. HATED it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46499 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:04:23 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 46499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, but my parents had me do educational stuff over the weekend and during the summers. It had nothing to do with Culture though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46498 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:04:08 +0000 HabesBabe 46498@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went to a Buddhist temple to learn Vietnamese... but we enrolled during Tet, so it was just all food and fun and games. My mom pulled me out since I didn't learn anything.</p> <p>I did go to a Kumon-esque place for math, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46468 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:23:27 +0000 MamaMoose 46468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. My dad had to go to Greek school when he was little and he hated it so he didn't want to make us go. He also married a non-Greek (aka my mom) so that was part of why it didn't get pushed on us. I did have to go to Sunday school though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46466 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:21:02 +0000 keiki_mama 46466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went to Chinese school from 6PM - 8 PM Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It was a lot of fun and also where I met my closest friends. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46465 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:20:50 +0000 BoogieBea 46465@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup. Chinese school every Saturday. Hated it when I was younger, but eventually met some good friends and saw the benefits of learning another language. So I continued until I started college. Still didn't get nearly enough out of it as I should have though. We're thinking about putting LO into a language immersion school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46464 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:18:40 +0000 chopsuey 46464@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! We learned korean at home from my parents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46461 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:14:07 +0000 DillonLion 46461@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went to Hebrew School on Tuesday night, Thursday night, and Sunday morning. It was a lot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-did-you-have-to-go-to-school-on-weekends-to-learn-more-about-your-native-languageculture#post-46459 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:07:58 +0000 mrbee 46459@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A lot of Asian parents will send you to school on weekends to learn more about your culture and language... I think maybe some other ethnicities do it too.</p> <p>Did you go to weekend school to study your native culture or language? </p>