Homeschooling fun

As we think it would be a good thing for Sam, our six year old whom we home school, to learn a second language we have a delightful French student coming in to tutor/chat for an hour or two each week to get Sam’s feet wet.

They were just in my office as he had stumped her by asking for the French for “skid steer loader”. On the way out they called the dog. Sam asked, “How do you call Daisy in French”. I missed the answer but then Sam piped up, “So, do you think it would be possible to have a bilingual dog?”

Only in Canada.

Written by jay on September 20th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Sean McCormick
#1. September 21st, 2007, at 11:09 AM.

I would prefer for my daughter to learn a language OTHER THAN French. Japanese, perhaps.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com jay
#2. September 21st, 2007, at 12:56 PM.

At this age the objective is to get the idea that there is more than one way to say “dog”, or, for that matter, “skid steer loader”.

Exposure first, learning second.

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