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Teaching a child a language??

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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Actually, given that we've been living together for nearly 11 years, I'm ashamed how little Hebrew I know! DS is overtaking me at the moment.

    I can hold basic domestic conversations, such as drinks / grub / nappy changes / bedtime / baths, all of that. And thanks to DS' and OH's joint obsession with vehicles, I know lots of useful words foe engine, wheels, wings, tail fin.... :confused:

    The reading / writing side is a total mystery to me, must admit.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • clairehi
    clairehi Posts: 1,352 Forumite
    Can I just add my support to Roxie here, good luck with the lanuguage teaching. unfortunately it seems like parenting queries on this board attract really unhelpful, malicious and spiteful responses from a minority of very sad people - I know how you feel.
  • Lunar_Eclipse
    Lunar_Eclipse Posts: 3,060 Forumite
    RoxieW wrote: »
    :mad: Of course I have a sufficient grasp of my first language. I just made a hurried mistake. :mad:


    Very controlled reply. :) I might have been inclined to mention Pavlov's insufficient grasp of capital letters myself! :D
  • RoxieW
    RoxieW Posts: 3,016 Forumite
    Thanks claire and lunar - looking forward to our hol now. Going to try to get ds1 to practice his spanish there, although he's a little shy. Hopefully if we make an effort, he'll follow suit.
    MANAGED TO CLEAR A 3K OVERDRAFT IN ONE FRUGAL, SUPER CHARGED MONEY EARNING MONTH!:j
    £10 a day challenge Aug £408.50, Sept £90
    Weekly.
    155/200
    "It's not always rainbows and butterflies, It's compromise that moves us along."
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Hope you have a great holiday!

    We went to Israel in November, when DS was 2 and 4 months. (We'd gone the previous January, but he didn't remember that). He was astonished to see other people speaking the language he thought was private between him, his Abba, and his uncle!
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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