Trilingual breakfast about dinner

[twilight33]

This morning out of nowhere, with me in the kitchen prepping lunches and my husband & son at the table:

Kieran: "I eat dinner at my house" in Spanish is yo como en mi casa.

Husband, repeats after him & knows 'dinner' is missing but doesn't remember what it is, followed by muy bueno.

Me: et en français, 'Je mange le dîner à la maison'

Kieran repeats after me in segments with a fairly decent accent.

Moi: très bien!

Then they continued some stuff in basic Spanish, of which I understand next to nothing.

I got la cena for 'dinner' from the teacher's assistant, and she mentioned they're having a more comprehensive after-school Spanish session next year he might be interested in because he picks it up effortlessly & has quite a large vocabulary. He doesn't speak it all that much at home so this was news to us.

I keep thinking about how the foreign language requirements in high school & college are going to be so easy for him compared to how much I struggled picking up French as a freshman.

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[speedie316.livejournal.com]

Awesome! We want Armine to hear as many different languages as she can. We have a couple of Chineese CDs a Chineese-speaking Army buddy of Joel's gave us, my friend Katy soothed her in Spanish the other day, Joel's been learning the Greek alphabet, and we've asked his sister to speak to her in French is she ever baby-sits. Now I just need to re-learn German...

Go for it!

[twilight33]

The more languages spoken to her in person, the better too. CDs are great, but I saw some child development research recently that showed audio/video learning isn't retained nearly as much as personal interaction.

Brush up on that German, I went straight to distance learning 3rd quarter college French after 12 years of no classes in it and managed to pull a B. It comes back faster than you might think :)

[nlguy.livejournal.com]

I heard so many horror stories about how hard languages were that I waited until I was a senior in high school to attempt Spanish. Imagine my shock when I got an 'A' in the class and went on to do the same in college with Italian. I think languages don't necessarily come naturally though, so YAY KIERAN!!! :)

[twilight33]

It definitely wasn't easy for either of us to learn a second language & all our parents sucked at it too, so my guess is that trait is genetic ;)

[sunneyone.livejournal.com]

that is so cool :) once again, your little one amazes me.