It's been a busy time for us, organising Schmoo's place at the French lycee (lots of paperwork!) and sorting out Pan-Pan's place at his French primary school in September. It will be good once he's getting some French at school, so he starts to realise this is not just some kooky family language Maman dreamed up, but something that exists and has purpose in the outside world as well!
The 'English catastrophe' of my last post was rather persistent, but after 2 weeks of asking Pan-Pan to repeat everything he said to me in French and reverting to only speaking to the children in French, he's gone back to French, thankfully! I still talk a fair bit of English with Schmoo when Pan-Pan's not around, especially if I need to explain something to her, but both languages are coming along nicely, and she's getting a lot of English input from Papa (who teaches her maths in English every night), so I'm not as concerned about this as I was. I am still looking ahead to the day I can leave most of the French teaching to the schools though! It will probably be at least another year, as Pan-Pan is going into the bilingual section of his school first and so won't be in immersion French until 2011.
We are getting a new piano on Monday and I'm going to try and find a piano teacher who can also teach the children to play in French :-)
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