Brun Ugle wrote:Yay! Zenmonkey’s back!
We will see. (Thanks for the support )
Saturday morning starts with Internet down (likely until Tuesday) and a message from my brother suggesting that my father will need further surgery. Which would necessitate another trip to the States for me.
So, language wise, my youngest daughter is staying with me this week - we are doing some German and Spanish (for her) - she's going to start Spanish in 10th grade this year and is definitely behind on that - she focused on learning Italian by herself and therefore I fear she's going to have some crossover conflict early on. I hear it. On the other hand, she does have a reasonable understanding already. But for a heritage language she could have been further along if a) her father (who?) wasn't a slug teaching her b) she hadn't initially decided that Spanish wasn't going to be her language at all, because she wanted a a secret language with me. We are on it.
Oldest daughter, C, is currently in northern Iraq and has been learning a smattering of Kurdish, Arabic and Persian. It seems that her primary language for the duration of the dig will be German - French and English only used when a few of the locals are involved.
Second daughter, P, is finishing her year in Mexico and her Spanish is now at a native with minor accent level. Some cultural holes but really minor stuff. She's moving back to France in September and probably will not focus much on languages over the next year. She's got her 4 down pat and has other interests.
Third daughter, spent part of the summer with me in the US and worked on English and Spanish there (cousins) and then was in a camp in Spain (Barcelona area) for a few weeks. She was quite happy to be the only person that spoke Spanish and so she translated a lot for the other kids and the camp leaders. Her final HS year is going to be tough, so any wins in self-esteem through language are really welcome now.
Me? Still have not done anything except for a bit of German with locals: Telekom, shopping, etc... I need coffee now.