Comments on: Language learning with Mama http://myfrenchwindow.com/language-learning-with-mama/ People are people the world over Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:04:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pumpkin http://myfrenchwindow.com/language-learning-with-mama/comment-page-1/#comment-3163 Pumpkin Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:16:53 +0000 http://myfrenchwindow.com/language-learning-with-mama/#comment-3163 Patdem, I have never been able to watch desperate Housewives. My brother tells me it is great. We have moved alot. Too much. Actually, I have moved around my whole life and am really ready to settle down somewhere and call it home. I hope that my oldest daughter will come this Christmas. So far it is a go but I have learned not to think about it until she is on the plane on her way to me. Patdem,
I have never been able to watch desperate Housewives. My brother tells me it is great. We have moved alot. Too much. Actually, I have moved around my whole life and am really ready to settle down somewhere and call it home. I hope that my oldest daughter will come this Christmas. So far it is a go but I have learned not to think about it until she is on the plane on her way to me.

]]> By: patdem http://myfrenchwindow.com/language-learning-with-mama/comment-page-1/#comment-3161 patdem Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:32:40 +0000 http://myfrenchwindow.com/language-learning-with-mama/#comment-3161 You both remind me Lynette and Tom Scavo in Desperate Housewives, for 6 months he takes cares of the children and now it s your turn to take care of them... Seems also that u two moved a lot. sorry that u can't see your oldest daughter. You both remind me Lynette and Tom Scavo in Desperate Housewives, for 6 months he takes cares of the children and now it s your turn to take care of them…
Seems also that u two moved a lot. sorry that u can’t see your oldest daughter.

]]> By: Pumpkin http://myfrenchwindow.com/language-learning-with-mama/comment-page-1/#comment-3151 Pumpkin Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:32:21 +0000 http://myfrenchwindow.com/language-learning-with-mama/#comment-3151 Patdem, I miss France terribly. Vilay and I go back and forth because he feels it is "safer" financially to stay in Switzerland while I would really like to return to France. In my heart I belong in France...not the States and not Switzerland. I miss the French way of thinking and looking at the world. Everything you are doing with your children is perfect. When my five year old was one year old I would tell her to come here in English and she didn't understand. I had to say it in French. We were living in the States at the time and my husband was taking care of her during the day for long hours because I worked all the time (this was before we moved to France the first time and later tried it in America again for six months which is the time I was writing about above). He stayed at home with the kids because daycare was too expensive. He was a part-time student at this time as well. Soon after she picked up the English 'Come here' but it took her a while to get it. So, I would say come here and right after say 'viens ici'. Perhaps, this is how it started...me saying it in English and then repeating in French when I knew how? I think it is much better for children to know two or more languages in todays world which is getting more and more global. It makes me sad that my oldest daughter which lives in the States with her American father does not speak or understand French very well. Patdem,

I miss France terribly. Vilay and I go back and forth because he feels it is “safer” financially to stay in Switzerland while I would really like to return to France.

In my heart I belong in France…not the States and not Switzerland. I miss the French way of thinking and looking at the world.

Everything you are doing with your children is perfect. When my five year old was one year old I would tell her to come here in English and she didn’t understand. I had to say it in French. We were living in the States at the time and my husband was taking care of her during the day for long hours because I worked all the time (this was before we moved to France the first time and later tried it in America again for six months which is the time I was writing about above). He stayed at home with the kids because daycare was too expensive. He was a part-time student at this time as well. Soon after she picked up the English ‘Come here’ but it took her a while to get it. So, I would say come here and right after say ‘viens ici’. Perhaps, this is how it started…me saying it in English and then repeating in French when I knew how?

I think it is much better for children to know two or more languages in todays world which is getting more and more global. It makes me sad that my oldest daughter which lives in the States with her American father does not speak or understand French very well.

]]> By: patdem http://myfrenchwindow.com/language-learning-with-mama/comment-page-1/#comment-3148 patdem Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:27:05 +0000 http://myfrenchwindow.com/language-learning-with-mama/#comment-3148 I really appreciated your post, as french father living in a foreign country, I am a bit in a the same position of yours except that ... I'm a father. I try to spend more and more time with Mathys 4 y.o and I push him to practise french. We chat together in my language and I let him watch french cartoons. He has his mother en his school to practise his dutch. As we talk english home (frenglish or dutchglish), he also learn few words. I'm just scared that he might have problems to write a perfect french. I would like that he write so. He also spend time with my parents in France for holidays to improve his french. Julie almost 2 y.o. doesn't talk french yet but she get it really good. She refuses to say a word in french, I think she does that for teasing me and it will come soon. By the way i change her diapers almost every day (lol) Both of our children have a gift, later, they will have access to 2 differents cultures and way of living They will take what is best for them. They will use it to apply for a job or to travel or whatever else. According to your blog it seems that you like very much France, it also seems that our new president (jack bauer) do like americains... Go on with your blog. Patdem I really appreciated your post, as french father living in a foreign country, I am a bit in a the same position of yours except that … I’m a father.

I try to spend more and more time with Mathys 4 y.o and I push him to practise french. We chat together in my language and I let him watch french cartoons. He has his mother en his school to practise his dutch.

As we talk english home (frenglish or dutchglish), he also learn few words. I’m just scared that he might have problems to write a perfect french. I would like that he write so. He also spend time with my parents in France for holidays to improve his french.

Julie almost 2 y.o. doesn’t talk french yet but she get it really good. She refuses to say a word in french, I think she does that for teasing me and it will come soon. By the way i change her diapers almost every day (lol)

Both of our children have a gift, later, they will have access to 2 differents cultures and way of living They will take what is best for them. They will use it to apply for a job or to travel or whatever else.

According to your blog it seems that you like very much France, it also seems that our new president (jack bauer) do like americains…

Go on with your blog.
Patdem

]]> By: Caffienated Cowgirl http://myfrenchwindow.com/language-learning-with-mama/comment-page-1/#comment-3137 Caffienated Cowgirl Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:13:29 +0000 http://myfrenchwindow.com/language-learning-with-mama/#comment-3137 Intriguing post. And I agree with you...the parent who spends the most time with the children tends to have the greatest influence. My little one, even though he speaks with a British accent and uses the Queen's English more often than not, has my American slang phrases...not my husband's. And bravo for teaching them about being Americans...I think that is a dying art form in the US... Intriguing post. And I agree with you…the parent who spends the most time with the children tends to have the greatest influence. My little one, even though he speaks with a British accent and uses the Queen’s English more often than not, has my American slang phrases…not my husband’s.

And bravo for teaching them about being Americans…I think that is a dying art form in the US…

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