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a son who refused point blank to sing Happy Birthday
Shame on him! And in the pictures, he's so cute. Also, goodness, I can't wrap my brain around him being old enough to sing.
Things can only get better!
It's just spending all the grey-ness and lack-of-singing-ness of the year up front, when it starts, so that the rest of it is freed up to be fabulous.
Also, goodness, I can't wrap my brain around him being old enough to sing.
You should hear him! It's getting so that he can even carry a tune. And he talks ridiculously fluently, in two languages. It's amazing.
I'm going out with SO for dinner at a restaurant tonight, ON OUR OWN, which is such a special treat nowadays that it's worth having a birthday to get it.
You should hear him!
Yeah, I really should. Sigh.
It's getting so that he can even carry a tune
That's better that I will ever be able to.
fluently, in two languages. It's amazing.
Does each of you talk with him in one language, or do you both use both languages? How does he choose which language to use?
ON OUR OWN
Yay you.
Happy Birthday, Fiona. Teach the "Hippo Bird Day to Ewe, Hippo Bird Day to Ewe..." version. I bet he'll sing that.
Gus! It's been forever since I posted with you, I should have known to look for you here, in the thread that fits the timezones you're living in now.
Hi, Nilly! I got your email with the homework assignment. I'll drop a note in Firefly, when I get a chance to do those few things.
Does each of you talk with him in one language, or do you both use both languages? How does he choose which language to use?
We're doing the One Parent One Language method. So I only speak to him in English, and SO only speaks to him in German. That way, he doesn't have to chose the language, it's automatic depending on who he's talking to. It's the method with the least room for confusion. For him, anyway.
Happy birthday, Fiona!
We're doing the One Parent One Language method. So I only speak to him in English, and SO only speaks to him in German. That way, he doesn't have to chose the language, it's automatic depending on who he's talking to. It's the method with the least room for confusion. For him, anyway.
I'm curious, does that break down when you speak to your SO in front of him? Or do you speak to your SO in English, and your SO replies in German, so that it's not a confusion?
All european parents talk to each other in French, don't they? There's a reason that "pas devant les enfants" was the first foreign phrase I learned...
Gus, thank you! It's no rush - I think I've noticed it when I got ack, in September or so, and only now remembered to e-mail about it, so you can see how urgent it is.
We're doing the One Parent One Language method
That's the only one I've seen working. Many parents here try to speak English to their children, on top on Hebrew (even if it's not their mother tongue, sometimes even when their English has mistakes that even I can notice, but that's not the point), since they believe it will give them some sort of advantage, and I haven't seen it working in any other way.
[Edit: Am-Chau! Long time no post together! How is school?
There's a reason that "pas devant les enfants" was the first foreign phrase I learned...
Snerk.]