Posts Tagged ‘Bilingual’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In English, you start counting on your fingers with your index finger while in French you start with your thumb.
I taught my bilingual children to count in English and French starting with the correct finger depending on the language. When they count in each language they switch their starting finger without thinking about [...]

I took this picture this morning on the way to take Sweet Bear to the bus.
It was a rainy morning but I think it was beautiful outside. The leaves have started to fall from some of the trees. As you can see”my bench” is surrounded by leaves of orange and brown.
Even if I [...]