Iceland! Very exciting! I imagine you've already picked up lots of Icelandic.
And congratulations on nearly completing your MLS -- I wonder where that will take you next! I think I did know you were in Scotland for a while, because I think the city you were in made me ask if you had tried any Scottish country dancing.
We are indeed doing bilingual input with LB. So far, she accepts it as completely normal and is willing to speak 100% German with my partner (he is only an L2 speaker, but he lived in Franconia for a while in his wild youth). LB even tells me I should practice German more, and she offers to tell me "all about it," hee. I sometimes read out loud to her from her German storybooks, and my comprehension is actually getting pretty good after three years of eavesdropping, but I still can't conjugate verbs or inflect nouns to save my life.
Books, yes, lots of fun ones -- for some reason, it seems like the cool or popular German children's books that my guy finds out about online are mostly translated -- some from English (like the Gruffalo!) and some from Swedish (the Franziska books, and a series about an old farmer called Pettersen and his talking cat Findus, are current favorites with LB; we haven't introduced her to Astrid Lindgren or Moomintrolls yet). We also have a lot of "Conni" stories, which are plenty German through and through. Those are great for the cultural details as much as the language.
I should make my own post about this, but we took LB to Germany for a week or so this summer. It was definitely a kid-friendly itinerary (zoo, beach, playground, story hour), but we all had fun.
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Date: 2019-09-12 03:14 am (UTC)And congratulations on nearly completing your MLS -- I wonder where that will take you next! I think I did know you were in Scotland for a while, because I think the city you were in made me ask if you had tried any Scottish country dancing.
We are indeed doing bilingual input with LB. So far, she accepts it as completely normal and is willing to speak 100% German with my partner (he is only an L2 speaker, but he lived in Franconia for a while in his wild youth). LB even tells me I should practice German more, and she offers to tell me "all about it," hee. I sometimes read out loud to her from her German storybooks, and my comprehension is actually getting pretty good after three years of eavesdropping, but I still can't conjugate verbs or inflect nouns to save my life.
Books, yes, lots of fun ones -- for some reason, it seems like the cool or popular German children's books that my guy finds out about online are mostly translated -- some from English (like the Gruffalo!) and some from Swedish (the Franziska books, and a series about an old farmer called Pettersen and his talking cat Findus, are current favorites with LB; we haven't introduced her to Astrid Lindgren or Moomintrolls yet). We also have a lot of "Conni" stories, which are plenty German through and through. Those are great for the cultural details as much as the language.
I should make my own post about this, but we took LB to Germany for a week or so this summer. It was definitely a kid-friendly itinerary (zoo, beach, playground, story hour), but we all had fun.