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Bilingual

Oxford First French Words book – Giveaway

November 21, 2008

Oxford First French Words (author Neil Morris) is a beautifully illustrated word book full of wonderful bird’s eye views taken from a typical day out of a child’s life.
It is available in German and Spanish as well.
Book description taken from the website of Oxford University Press (US):
The Oxford First Words books give your child a [...]

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Naturally Bilingual

June 25, 2008

I stopped this morning to talk to two older neighbors who started a conversation with me about the weather. It wasn’t long before one of the men took the opportunity to tell me that I should speak French with my children and not English. His reasoning is that because my children are French [...]

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My husband, the French

April 18, 2008

…was not happy that the French will sing a mostly English song in the next Eurovision. It is the first time that France will sing a song in another language other than French since the Eurovision began over fifty years ago.
Read about it here on BBC NEWS.
My French husband did what would have driven [...]

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Quoiat?

April 2, 2008

Sweet Bear looked up at me with her big blue eyes. She had her eyebrows all squished together in concentration trying to figure out what I had just told her. She had been tuning me out up until she heard ice cream.
“Quoiat?”, she implored with urgency.
Luckily, I have become an expert in Franglais [...]

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American culture that warms my expat heart

March 13, 2008

I am not going mad.
It is 1:30 p.m. in the French speaking part of Switzerland.
My children are watching Cartoon Network France.
Tom and Jerry to be exact.
In English.
Just like my brother and I did as little kids.
It must be some sort of conspiracy to teach little French speaking kids English.
********I love hearing the cartoon characters from [...]

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