tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post5853410297880724088..comments2024-01-12T00:24:35.544+01:00Comments on St Bloggie de Riviere: Eat yer heart out Arnie!Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13195684182481935384noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-79554777732687072812007-04-22T09:35:00.000+02:002007-04-22T09:35:00.000+02:00My two are both bilingual, but at the end of the d...My two are both bilingual, but at the end of the day, French is their mother tongue. They are lacking in English vocalulary (I think) and there are certain English/American words that they learnt in French that they pronounce with a French accent when talking English! My daughter is accentless, but my son has a slight (gorgeous) French accent when he speaks English which should break a few hearts later!Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08277397635514758674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-2812226507132797292007-04-20T11:27:00.000+02:002007-04-20T11:27:00.000+02:00Mine all speak French but are certainly not bi-lin...Mine all speak French but are certainly not bi-lingual and never had the oppotunitly to be so, but many years ago at Grenoble uni I had a friend, was born in the Uk to an English mother and a Russian father, they then moved to the Argentine where he attended an Italian school. Later his mother married a German who lived in German Switzerland. With all these languages I asked him which he spoke best."well, English of course" but he was always telling me to shut my scooter instead of lock it! Being bi-lingual is great but with too many languages ont tenda not to have a mother tongueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-69434052961260670112007-04-18T14:07:00.000+02:002007-04-18T14:07:00.000+02:00Goodness, Louise, how rude can some people be!Rich...Goodness, Louise, how rude can some people be!<BR/><BR/>Richard, both my boys were in the local creche from 3 months old when I had to back to work. They thus spoke French all day. When my eldest was two, we all went to the US for a one-year assignment which meant he came back speaking English. He speaks perfect English and perfect French (no accents). <BR/><BR/>My youngest didn't have the advantage of total immersion at a critical point in his development and, while he understands me (I speak only in English to him), he usually responds in French. <BR/><BR/>His English is sitting passively up there in his brain for the moment. When he does speak, his accent is almost there, but you can tell he's not a native.<BR/><BR/>What about yours?Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13195684182481935384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-64487966896737974382007-04-18T09:36:00.000+02:002007-04-18T09:36:00.000+02:00I am interested to know if your children are compl...I am interested to know if your children are completly bi-lingual. They obviously speak English with you, French with their father and French at school. An excellent combination, but do they speak English with a French accent?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-75192070774748221682007-04-18T08:16:00.000+02:002007-04-18T08:16:00.000+02:00Parents are definitely the worst thing when it com...Parents are definitely the worst thing when it comes to children's parties. Fortunately my son went to a very small primary school and so we/he used to invite the whole class so as to keep parental peace. And I lived on a farm, so in fact the children used to just run wild for the afternoon and be given all sorts of unsuitable food and drink that they loved and their parents hated!<BR/><BR/>My main problem was parents who saw the party as a way of dumping their children on me for as long as possible on a Saturday so they could do something else - fine, except that after four hours of screaming boys and the odd tear, I would be dying for them to all go home so I could sit down and have a well-earned drink! The late arriving parents were invariably the ones I didn't like and they would conveniently arrive at drinks time, hoping they might also be invited to supper!Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08277397635514758674noreply@blogger.com