Comments on: Five Frugal Ways To Help Kids Learn A Foreign Language http://almostfrugal.com/2008/06/17/five-frugal-ways-to-help-kids-learn-a-foreign-language/ Learning about frugality Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:32:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Imenehttp://almostfrugal.com/2008/06/17/five-frugal-ways-to-help-kids-learn-a-foreign-language/#comment-5867 Imene Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:11:00 +0000 http://almostfrugal.com/2008/06/17/five-frugal-ways-to-help-kids-learn-a-foreign-language/#comment-5867 I find that the most helpful thing is to have friends that can play with them in the same language. We speak french to the boys and everyone else speaks english but arabic fell down the wagon. Just because I am the only one talking this language to them. Their father doesn't really try. It's hard for me to accept it because language is the gate to a culture. Thank you for the tips, I will try to implement them. .-= Imene´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AJourneyToASimpleHappyLife/~3/8EsSBoqP5Js/a-budding-relationship.html" rel="nofollow">A budding relationship</a> =-. I find that the most helpful thing is to have friends that can play with them in the same language. We speak french to the boys and everyone else speaks english but arabic fell down the wagon. Just because I am the only one talking this language to them. Their father doesn’t really try.
It’s hard for me to accept it because language is the gate to a culture. Thank you for the tips, I will try to implement them.
.-= Imene´s last blog ..A budding relationship =-.

]]> By: pamela ruth munrohttp://almostfrugal.com/2008/06/17/five-frugal-ways-to-help-kids-learn-a-foreign-language/#comment-404 pamela ruth munro Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:11:00 +0000 http://almostfrugal.com/2008/06/17/five-frugal-ways-to-help-kids-learn-a-foreign-language/#comment-404 There are also so many opportunities to learn/enrich foreign language skills on the internet - Deutsche Welle has a whole introductory German language course for FREE. Also look at the inexpensive language software. I learned part of the Spanish I know using those cds I got from www.arcamax.com for about $6.... There are also so many opportunities to learn/enrich foreign language skills on the internet – Deutsche Welle has a whole introductory German language course for FREE. Also look at the inexpensive language software. I learned part of the Spanish I know using those cds I got from http://www.arcamax.com for about $6….

]]> By: Mrs. Micahhttp://almostfrugal.com/2008/06/17/five-frugal-ways-to-help-kids-learn-a-foreign-language/#comment-395 Mrs. Micah Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:24:00 +0000 http://almostfrugal.com/2008/06/17/five-frugal-ways-to-help-kids-learn-a-foreign-language/#comment-395 That's similar to how my ex-uncle and his new wife (who I still see occasionally) are teaching their daughter. English & Spanish in that case.<br/><br/>It's been quite fun to discover and rediscover my library's French film section. And, of course, "Belle" from Notre Dame de Paris is still high on my iPod playlist. That’s similar to how my ex-uncle and his new wife (who I still see occasionally) are teaching their daughter. English & Spanish in that case.

It’s been quite fun to discover and rediscover my library’s French film section. And, of course, “Belle” from Notre Dame de Paris is still high on my iPod playlist.

]]> By: Eponinehttp://almostfrugal.com/2008/06/17/five-frugal-ways-to-help-kids-learn-a-foreign-language/#comment-394 Eponine Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:56:00 +0000 http://almostfrugal.com/2008/06/17/five-frugal-ways-to-help-kids-learn-a-foreign-language/#comment-394 I think you're on the right track with you and your husband mainly sticking to your native languages with the kids. One of my colleagues (a Spanish teacher) grew up in Panama speaking Spanish with her mother and English with her father, and she speaks both languages perfectly.<br/>It makes sense that your kids are stronger in English right now, because they spend so much time with their American mommy. As soon as they get into a French school, I think their French will catch up in a hurry. I know that my own French improves if I vacation in France, or even if I go to a week-long teacher training where we mainly speak French.<br/>P.S. I've been reading for a couple of months now, and always enjoy reading your combo of things French and things frugal. I think you’re on the right track with you and your husband mainly sticking to your native languages with the kids. One of my colleagues (a Spanish teacher) grew up in Panama speaking Spanish with her mother and English with her father, and she speaks both languages perfectly.
It makes sense that your kids are stronger in English right now, because they spend so much time with their American mommy. As soon as they get into a French school, I think their French will catch up in a hurry. I know that my own French improves if I vacation in France, or even if I go to a week-long teacher training where we mainly speak French.
P.S. I’ve been reading for a couple of months now, and always enjoy reading your combo of things French and things frugal.

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