Good news in local bilingualism

[forthright]

So apparently Arthur has overcome his longstanding hatred of the French language. For those of you who don't know, he was in a French-only daycare for a year in 2007-08 and picked up nothing, although he did learn to count to four in Spanish from Handy Manny. So today, after finishing playing with his new Nintendo 3DS (for which many thanks go out

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[irene_adler]

Have you showed him some anime-type action cartoons in French, like Wakfu or Molly Star Racer? Even at my age, "Les mondes engloutis" made me get some French-lesson podcasts.

[owldaughter]

Arthur, you are awesome.

Liam's struggling with syntax. He doesn't understand why we say "What's your name?" in English, but "Your name, what is it?" in French. French feels really complicated to him right now, and he's frustrated because he doesn't understand it. Pile that on top of his character quirk (or, ahem, what I ave referred to as his Character Disad) of not trying something if he thinks he'll fail, and yeah, we have a French resistance.

[foms]

âtre

Great site!

[anonymous]

Hi Forthright / Fourthwrite; just a quick note to say I stumbled across your site while looking for a source of weird and wonderful words for my electronics cartoons blog.

I have selected 2 and credited your site in my posting. (www.ohmart.org - blog on that page).

I chose 'quacksalver' and 'tisicky'... it occurred to me that one might see a quack to 'prove' to your boss your tisicky is genuine…?

kind regards
Barney

This is a wonderful post

[ext_1020089]

It is delightful to see children learning. My daughter asked me "What makes things funny?" the other day. Part of the explanation was that when something is unexpected it can be funny. So she has been practicing saying unexpected things at opportune moments.

I am glad I found your site. I was looking for "types of fabric" and came across your wonderful list, which helped me in a poem.

Last semester I took a class on Anglo-saxon and early English literature, and we read Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. So many fun words!
Phoebe