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.
Did you go to weekend school to study your native culture or language?
Did you have to go to school on weekends to learn more about your native language/culture?
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I went to Hebrew School on Tuesday night, Thursday night, and Sunday morning. It was a lot.
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Nope! We learned korean at home from my parents.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
I did go to a Kumon-esque place for math, though.
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No, but my parents had me do educational stuff over the weekend and during the summers. It had nothing to do with Culture though.
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Korean school every Saturday morning from 9am-noon. HATED it.
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I went to Hebrew school on Tuesday nights. Then we also did Sunday school and Monday night school to learn about Judaism.
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@highwire: wow that is a lot! i went to korean school every saturday. so worth it because i learned how to read and write.
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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!
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i went to korean school offered at church.
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korean school every saturday morning from 9am-noon for 6 years.
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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.
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Yeah, I did. I hated it though.
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yes
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yep, but only sporadically.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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