Without the knowledge of a foreign language, especially English, it is difficult to become truly successful in a career. Therefore, it is possible to understand parents who have been trying to teach children English since childhood. However, incomprehensible foreign words are hardly perceived by children. To help come the study of English in cartoons for children.
Secrets of quick memorization
Why is English difficult for many? Because on an unfamiliar word, we do not have associations in our brains. The traditional study of a foreign language at school on boring textbooks only exacerbates the situation - bright visual images are not enough to consolidate the associative series. No matter how we describe the taste of exotic fruit, we do not realize it until we try it. The same is with the memorization of foreign words. For example, the teacher claims that the darkest color is "black". But our brain knows this meaning under the word "black". It takes a long time to break the stereotypes of the brain and build several associations for the same phenomenon. Naturally, the older a person, the more difficult it is to break down associations, which means that it is more difficult to learn foreign languages.
The way out of this situation is simple - to start learning a foreign language, when a person actively learns the world and also forms an associative base. Of course - it's children. They believe in fairy tales and miracles, the cartoons are taken seriously, they do not divide events into truth and fiction, they have a vivid imagination. Therefore, foreign words with the correct method of teaching are perceived not as a "foreign body", but as part of the world around them.
However, in order for children to memorize English words better, they should create an association in memory - remember their meanings. And the brighter the images, the easier they are remembered. The main textbook in English is books and textbooks. But physiologically, children can not long concentrate on static, even very colorful pictures. Therefore, recently a wonderful way to consolidate the material and even learn English is to watch cartoons in English.
The effectiveness of cartoons in a foreign language
Look closely at how carefully children watch cartoons. They do not tear off the screen! They seem to absorb every word, event, image, genuinely empathize with the heroes. This craving for cognition is used for studying languages: separate educational cartoons, animated series, separate television channels exist.
As a rule, cartoon characters comment on events in their native and foreign languages, forming in the memory of the child several associations for one phenomenon. In the future, this will allow a person "on the fly" to understand English speech. Most people, especially over 30 years old, because of the peculiarities of conservative teaching methods, first read the word in English (for example, "rain") - then in the mind or with the dictionary they translate ("rain") - and only then realize its meaning ("falling from the sky a drop of water "). Progressive methods of teaching English for children with the active use of specialized cartoons will help in the future immediately subconsciously perceive the meaning of a phrase or text without intermediate translation.
By the way, if children will watch ordinary cartoons in English without specialized processing of submission of material and explanatory comments, then there will be no special benefit from these views. Perhaps the children will memorize English words by ear, but these words will not form associations.
The undoubted benefit of children's learning animated cartoons in English is the presence of literate literary speech without dialects, simplifications, adverbs, slang. They are kind, instructive, giving new knowledge, without aggression and rigidity characteristic of the rating cartoons. The curriculum is given in an easy form, with elements of the game, humor, music and songs.