Sahar

6 minutes ago, poftim said:

It won't be the same for everybody in the UK. And it was quite a long time ago for me now. So maybe "The cat sat on the mat" wasn't the very first sentence I learnt, and someone much older or younger than me probably had something quite different.

Have you ever heard this sentence?

12 hours ago, sidney said:

I'm from the Philippines. Actually no, they made us learn our names first and how to properly introduce ourselves.  Then the teachers started to teach us those nursery rhymes. 

so nice. thanks.

6 hours ago, poftim said:

Sahar,

I went to school in the UK. We certainly did a lot of nursery rhymes, but the emphasis there wasn't on reading or word forms but on speaking, listening and copying the teacher's gestures. The words were usually accompanied by actions.

With "The cat sat on the mat" I remember the teacher saying that "the" has a tall letter, a short letter and an in-between letter, and that "m" has two humps while "n" has one.

Words for animals were among the first we ever learnt. In English they tend to be simple three-letter words: cat, dog, rat, pig, cow. I wonder how that differs in other languages. In Romanian, animal words are a bit harder: cat = pisică, dog = câine, rat = șobolan. So maybe they teach those words a bit later.

Wonderful! actually I`ve heard that the first sentence in UK is "I can read and write"! so this is not the fact, is this?

1 hour ago, sidney said:

Usually they come in the form of nursery rhymes, like "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water", etc, but it's taught bit by bit so as not to overwhelm the student.

Thank you, would you please tell me where are you from? and is that sentence the first full sentence you`ve learnt? because that`s really hard for first grade primary school!

1 hour ago, OddVisions said:

I think it differs from school to school in the states, but when I was younger, the first whole sentence I remember being taught to us is "The ball is red." Our teacher used this sentence to help us understand the basic idea of an adjective and a noun. It was funny when she tried to explain what a period was and nobody understood her. 

Thank you. actually it`ll be depend on the area! would you please tell me where are you from?

2 hours ago, poftim said:

In English: "The cat sat on the mat."

Thank you, would you please tell me where are you from?

Hi everybody,

I'm looking for the first sentences that children learn in primary schools from elementary-book in different languages in different countries. For example Iranian children usually learn first sentence: "بابا آب داد، بابا نان داد" Means "Dad takes water, Dad takes bread", in Georgian: "Ai ia - აი ია" (voila, this is a violet), in Spanish: " Mi mamá me mima" (My mom spoils me).

I just wanna know the sentence not just words.

Please send me phrases in original language and also in English.

Every phrase in every language will be very helpful for me

That`s really fantastic topic. I`m Iranian and the first sentence in our country is: "بابا آب داد" means: " Father takes water" and "بابا نان داد" means: "Father takes Bread"!

I wanna know first sentence in English and Japanese schools.

On 9/6/2014 at 2:21 PM, beccagreen said:

Wow, I can't remember mine. I think it was "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"? Oh wait that's in typing class. Oh yeah I got it, I remember it was "My name is (followed by your name)" and then we would state the name of our parents and siblings.

Are you English? I`ve heard the the first sentence in English schools is "I can Read and Write", isn`t it?

On 8/17/2014 at 11:56 AM, pcgamer said:

The first sentence we learn here is Pitaji which stands for dad and Mataji which stands for mother.

hi friend. these are words, what is the first sentence?