ML during summer in the ml country
Jun 5, 2018 4:38:29 GMT 9
Post by Marisa on Jun 5, 2018 4:38:29 GMT 9
Hello all!
My daughter and I will be traveling to Spain in 3 weeks. We'll be there basically until the end of August, so I'm truly happy about the fact that she'll be completely immersed in the ml language/culture during all that time (my family are mainly monolingual speakers of Spanish, so that's basically what she's going to be listening to).
Due to professional reasons, I won't be able to be with my daughter during our first month there (I'll be teaching at a different location). I'm already being quite proactive in terms of supporting her other minority languages (German and French). I've already instructed my mother and sister to play some music videos that I'm compiling in both languages, and I'm using the "video cloning" idea that Adam mentions in his book for her "book reading time" in German (since I don't speak French, I'm trusting YouTube and its French-reading for toddlers channels to take care of this).
Then I'll join her, and will take over the ml duties.
My question here is...her current ML, English. For two months, she won't hear/"speak" any of it. Obviously I don't want her to lose any knowledge she's already acquired, so I was wondering how I can accomplish that. My main guess is that even if she doesn't hear any of it, as soon as she comes back to the US and begin attending daycare, she'll 'refresh' all that knowledge, but she'll be joining a class full of 2-year-olds that are fluent (or as fluent as they can possibly be) in English, and she might be frustrated if she doesn't remember what she knows now.
As of right now, her strongest language is Spanish (ml), and she's doing pretty well with German and French. My main thought was to have her listen to English songs/cartoons/podcasts, and look for something like the French-reading videos (but in English) for an hour or so; other than that, I can't think of anything else (I don't want to speak to her in English, even if it's only for short periods of time during the day, because right now she associates "mom" with "speaking Spanish," and I don't want that to change).
If anyone has had/been in a similar situation, what strategies did you use? Do you think the listening/watching/watching-reading will be enough, or should I try something else? Has anyone used something different that worked? The more suggestions, the better!
Oh, and I promise she'll also have time to enjoy her cousins, grandparents, uncles and aunt, and have a great time bonding with them. As much as she likes reading her books, I'm sure she'll like eating ice-cream with her cousins more!
Marisa
My daughter and I will be traveling to Spain in 3 weeks. We'll be there basically until the end of August, so I'm truly happy about the fact that she'll be completely immersed in the ml language/culture during all that time (my family are mainly monolingual speakers of Spanish, so that's basically what she's going to be listening to).
Due to professional reasons, I won't be able to be with my daughter during our first month there (I'll be teaching at a different location). I'm already being quite proactive in terms of supporting her other minority languages (German and French). I've already instructed my mother and sister to play some music videos that I'm compiling in both languages, and I'm using the "video cloning" idea that Adam mentions in his book for her "book reading time" in German (since I don't speak French, I'm trusting YouTube and its French-reading for toddlers channels to take care of this).
Then I'll join her, and will take over the ml duties.My question here is...her current ML, English. For two months, she won't hear/"speak" any of it. Obviously I don't want her to lose any knowledge she's already acquired, so I was wondering how I can accomplish that. My main guess is that even if she doesn't hear any of it, as soon as she comes back to the US and begin attending daycare, she'll 'refresh' all that knowledge, but she'll be joining a class full of 2-year-olds that are fluent (or as fluent as they can possibly be) in English, and she might be frustrated if she doesn't remember what she knows now.
As of right now, her strongest language is Spanish (ml), and she's doing pretty well with German and French. My main thought was to have her listen to English songs/cartoons/podcasts, and look for something like the French-reading videos (but in English) for an hour or so; other than that, I can't think of anything else (I don't want to speak to her in English, even if it's only for short periods of time during the day, because right now she associates "mom" with "speaking Spanish," and I don't want that to change).
If anyone has had/been in a similar situation, what strategies did you use? Do you think the listening/watching/watching-reading will be enough, or should I try something else? Has anyone used something different that worked? The more suggestions, the better!
Oh, and I promise she'll also have time to enjoy her cousins, grandparents, uncles and aunt, and have a great time bonding with them.
As much as she likes reading her books, I'm sure she'll like eating ice-cream with her cousins more!Marisa
