enviromommy
03-13-2011, 03:18 PM
First (this isn't what I'm so excited about in the title of the thread), we've had a great improvement in attitude here. My DD used to burst out crying when I tried to speak French to her, and now all of a sudden she wants me to speak in French to her all the time, and even berates me if I speak English! Also, though she's had little French, she's surprising me with how much she's figuring out from cognates (it helps a lot that her English vocabulary is so extensive from all the reading she does). For example, I say "Je suis fatiguée" and she says, "You said you are tired!" When I ask how she knew that, she'll say "from the word 'fatigued' in English."
Also, she used to "hate" Hebrew as well. Now all of a sudden, she's gotten so focused and ambitious. She now wants my DH to speak Hebrew to her all the time, and she does her Hebrew homework the second her tutor leaves. She's decided she wants to be fluent in French and Hebrew and then move on to more languages! I'm so happy she's changed how she feels about this, since languages are my first love.
My next "attitude problem" was my 6 year-old DS, who at first would yell out, "I hate French! Don't ever speak French to me!" The magical turning point? I searched you-tube for Caillou videos in French. He watched a couple and said, with big round eyes, "I didn't realize French could be cartoons." LOL. Now he wants me to teach him French.
Now, finally, to the title of my post. We have been discussing trying to go to Paris for January-March of 2012. My husband is a professor of biomedical engineering, and there is an institute that hires adjuncts for short, 8-week courses in the winter. I thought we were talking about just doing this once, so I asked him why he couldn't take a full semester sabbatical. He answered that if he did that he would only be able to do it once; he's looking for something we could repeat every year. I had NO IDEA he was talking about our going to Paris January-March EVERY year. I'm so excited at this idea I can't contain myself. It's the perfect solution. I miss Paris so much, and want the kids to speak French, but we can't live there full time and have the careers we want. So this would be amazing!
Thanks for listening, if you got this far!
Also, she used to "hate" Hebrew as well. Now all of a sudden, she's gotten so focused and ambitious. She now wants my DH to speak Hebrew to her all the time, and she does her Hebrew homework the second her tutor leaves. She's decided she wants to be fluent in French and Hebrew and then move on to more languages! I'm so happy she's changed how she feels about this, since languages are my first love.
My next "attitude problem" was my 6 year-old DS, who at first would yell out, "I hate French! Don't ever speak French to me!" The magical turning point? I searched you-tube for Caillou videos in French. He watched a couple and said, with big round eyes, "I didn't realize French could be cartoons." LOL. Now he wants me to teach him French.
Now, finally, to the title of my post. We have been discussing trying to go to Paris for January-March of 2012. My husband is a professor of biomedical engineering, and there is an institute that hires adjuncts for short, 8-week courses in the winter. I thought we were talking about just doing this once, so I asked him why he couldn't take a full semester sabbatical. He answered that if he did that he would only be able to do it once; he's looking for something we could repeat every year. I had NO IDEA he was talking about our going to Paris January-March EVERY year. I'm so excited at this idea I can't contain myself. It's the perfect solution. I miss Paris so much, and want the kids to speak French, but we can't live there full time and have the careers we want. So this would be amazing!
Thanks for listening, if you got this far!