Saturday, 29 January 2011

NEW WORDS: Multicultural vocab

Bringing up children with more than one language goes hand in hand with learning about other cultures. For example, in French there is a festival called 'La Galette des Rois', which involves eating a yummy cake and discovering a 'feve' within (a bit like the coin in the Christmas pud), so its a celebration that brings lots of new vocabulary. In Twi, there is an expression, 'fem fem', which describes the sensation of nails scraping down a blackboard, something this culture wanted to give a name to!

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